Closure fasteners – Operators with knobs or handles
Patent
1992-06-15
1993-12-28
Nicholson, Eric K.
Closure fasteners
Operators with knobs or handles
292DIG4, 292 19, E05C 1902
Patent
active
052733289
ABSTRACT:
A lock mechanism for causing an openable member such as a cover or a door of a box or the like to engage with or disengage from a main body as the openable member is pressed, and a latch device for retaining a latch body in the housing in a state in a pushed-in state and in a withdrawn state. The center of rotation of each of a pair of arms of the latch device is formed on substantially the same line as a line of action of a force acting on a retaining surface of each of the arms for retaining a striker. A fitting hole, a guide hole, a slanted guide surface, and a fitting hole are provided to allow a tracing member of the latch device to be fitted from outside the housing at the time of assembling the tracing member to the housing. In the lock mechanism and the latch device, the tracing member is caused to trace side walls of a pair of circulatory guide paths by making use of the resilient restoring force of a resilient tracing member, and the tracing member is maintained in a state of noncontact with bottom surfaces of the circulatory guide paths during tracing.
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Nicholson Eric K.
Nifco Inc.
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