Closure fasteners – Bolts – Multiple
Patent
1991-07-23
1993-02-09
Moore, Richard E.
Closure fasteners
Bolts
Multiple
292153, 292169, 292DIG24, 292DIG62, E05C 1502
Patent
active
051848520
ABSTRACT:
A rod casing for activating vertically arranged latch bolts, the casing and latch bolts arranged in an active stile of a door and engageable to a door frame. The rod casing provides a vertically slidable actuator cam engageable by both a lock/unlock actuator and a delatch or dogging actuator. The lock/unlock actuator and the delatch actuator are rotatably mounted upon a spindle piece which itself is rotatable by a user such as by a key-activated lock cylinder. The lock/unlock actuator when rotated slidingly abuts the actuator cam and drives the actuator cam vertically upward to cause unlatching of the latch bolts. The delatch actuator, upon rotation of the spindle piece in an opposite direction underlies the actuator cam and dogs the actuator cam in its vertically risen position. To deactivate the delatch actuator, the lock/unlock actuator can be rotated to interfere and displace the delatch actuator to release the actuator cam from the dogging position. The actuator cam is composed of a resilient material to allow the delatch actuator to engage the actuator cam in a spring-like or resiliently compressible fashion to help hold the actuator cam in its dogging position.
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Moore Richard E.
Thomas Industries Inc., Builders Brass Works Division
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