Push to exit, pull to enter latch assembly for screen door

Details Push to exit, pull to enter latch assembly for screen door Push to exit, pull to enter latch assembly for screen door

1997-11-04

2000-01-04

Purol, David M.

Flexible or portable closure, partition, or panel

Framed type

160 96, 160180, 49394, 292166, A47G 500

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active

060099321

ABSTRACT:
A push to exit, pull to enter latch assembly is disclosed, particularly suitable as a screen door latch for a recreational vehicle door assembly having a main closure door and a screen door. The latch assembly comprises a latch housing, a latch bolt linearly slidable from a latching position to an unlatching position, a push-to-release lever mounted on one side of the latch housing and a pull-to-release lever mounted on an opposite side of the latch housing. In certain preferred embodiments each release lever has a handle and a latch bolt engagement flange. Rotation of either release lever from its normal position to its releasing position forces the corresponding latch bolt engagement flange against the latch bolt, urging the latch bolt from the latching position to the unlatching position. The latch assembly may cooperate with a screen to close an opening in a pivotable screen door. Optionally a main door pivotable about the same axis as the screen door, is releasably attachable to the screen door at the latch assembly so that the main door and the screen door travel together between open and closed positions.

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