Closure fasteners – Bolts – Swinging
Patent
1987-10-20
1989-03-21
Moore, Richard E.
Closure fasteners
Bolts
Swinging
70211, 70224, 70484, 292DIG31, 296 63, E05C 326
Patent
active
048137227
ABSTRACT:
An improved locking device for a latching and locking mechanism wherein upon a motor vehicle rear seatback being unlocked it adapted to be unlatched for swinging to a fold-down position by pivoting a handle portion of an operating lever providing pass through access between the vehicle passenger compartment and rear storage trunk. The locking device provides a key locking cylinder which in its locked mode has a lock bar biased in one direction such that its one end contacts a cam segment on the cylinder. The lock bar is formed with a pair of notches spaced on centers equal to the spacing between support webs of a pivoting operating lever. The notches are positioned to block the pivoting of the lever in the cylinder locked mode by being misaligned with the support webs. Upon the lock bar being shifted by the cam segment, as a result of the cylinder being rotated by the key, the notches are aligned with the support webs allowing latch tripping movement of the operating lever probe to free the striker allowing the backrest to be swung to its fold-down unlatched position.
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patent: 4438964 (1984-03-01), Peters
patent: 4637648 (1987-01-01), Okino et al.
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patent: 4684175 (1987-08-01), Trutter
Schwartz Wilbur E.
Viscome Dennis M.
Barthel Edward P.
Chrysler Motors Corporation
Moore Richard E.
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