Closure fasteners – Bendable securers
Patent
1998-05-04
2000-03-28
Dayoan, B.
Closure fasteners
Bendable securers
2923363, 292DIG46, 292DIG60, 403 76, B65D 3330
Patent
active
060421614
ABSTRACT:
A flexible coupling is provided for a lock actuator and a latch assembly. The coupling is particularly useful for sliding glass doors and enables the actuator to be mounted to the door in an axially offset relationship with respect to the connecting member of the latch assembly. The coupling includes a male member that includes an outwardly protruding knuckle that is pivotally and frictionally received in the socket of a female member. The male member is connected to either the lock actuator or the latch assembly while the female connector is connected to the other of the lock actuator or the latch assembly. Rotation of the lock actuator results in rotation of both the male and female member thereby resulting in rotation of the connecting member of the latch assembly even though the actuator is disposed offset from the connecting member.
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Becken Donald A.
Mantarakis Petros Z.
Dayoan B.
Reflectolite Products
Vaterlaus Clifford B
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