Closure fasteners – Bolts – Sliding
Patent
1993-11-15
1996-01-09
Meyers, Steven N.
Closure fasteners
Bolts
Sliding
292DIG61, 292DIG63, E05C 110
Patent
active
054823331
ABSTRACT:
A sliding, door latch has a latch member and a spring member integrally molded in one-piece. The latch member, which can be secured in a latch opening in a thin door panel without the use of tools, includes a planar base member which covers and slides reciprocally in the opening. An integral actuator extends traversely from the back of the base member through the opening and has integral bosses on its sides which form grooves engaging tangs in the sides of the latch opening. An integrally molded latch finger projects from the actuator toward the door panel edge. The spring member includes a first pair of spaced apart elongated elements integrally hinged to the actuator, a second pair of elongated elements integrally hinged at one end to the first pair, a beam integrally hinged to and connecting the other ends of the second pair of elongated elements, and a hook integrally molded to the center of the beam and engaging the rear edge of latch opening. The integral spring member biases the latch to the latched position. A finger pocket recessed in the actuator is engaged to slide the latch away from the latched position thereby bending the hinges of the spring member. When the finger pocket is released, the hinges open returning the latch to the latched position.
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Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Catalog 30-390, pp. 1 through 8 dated May 1990.
Gehrs Donald F.
Runge Louis L.
White Percy A.
Eaton Corporation
Estremsky Gary
Meyers Steven N.
Moran Martin J.
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