Locks – Special application – For closures
Patent
1996-05-08
1998-09-08
Barrett, Suzanne Dino
Locks
Special application
For closures
292269, 312217, E05B 6544
Patent
active
058028927
ABSTRACT:
A storage system including a storage container body, a door, and a lock assembly, the lock assembly including a lock latch mechanism located in a side wall of the storage container body remote from the door, and a striker member located on the door, wherein the lock latch mechanism includes at least one lock catch selectively capable of engaging and securing either one of a storage article resident in the storage container body or the striker member. The lock latch assembly may include a lock latch extension mechanism that includes a shuttle slide including a locking portion engagable with a lock catch of the lock latch mechanism, and a latching portion engagable with the striker member of the lock latch mechanism. The lock latch extension mechanism preferably also includes a shuttle retainer for slidably supporting the shuttle slide between a locking position, where the lock catch of the lock latch mechanism is engagable with the locking portion, and a release position, where the lock catch is not engagable with the locking portion, and where the striker member is engagable with the latching portion when the shuttle slide is in either the locking position or the release position, and is releasable from the latching portion when the shuttle slide is in the release position.
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Altonji Robert W.
Cohn Robert J.
Kaminski Douglas J.
Barrett Suzanne Dino
Metro Industries Inc.
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