Latch mechanism and striker

• US 3,311,395 A
• Filed: 03/24/1965
• Issued: 03/28/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 03/24/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Fred L. Leonard
• Original Assignee: Fred L. Leonard
• Inventors: Leonard, Fred L.
• Application Number:
  US04/442,343
• Time in Patent Office: 734 Days
• US Class Current: 292/228
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 65/0007 for gates for wire gates E06B11/021
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 65/0014 to prevent opening by children E05B13/00 takes precedence; child-proof container closures B65D50/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 292/1061 Rigid
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 292/62 Bolt casings
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 292/707 Vertically

Claims

1. FOR COOPERATING WITH A HOOKED STRIKER ON A SWINGABLE GATE, A LATCH MECHANISM COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION, A TUBULAR HOUSING HAVING A LATERAL OPENING;

AN OPERATOR SHAFT IN THE HOUSING AND HAVING A LATERAL RECESS ADJACENT ONE END IN COMPANIONATE RELATION TO THE OPENING, AND THE OTHER END EXTERIORLY OF THE HOUSING;

OPERATOR MEANS CONNECTED TO THE OTHER END EFFECTIVE TO ANGULARLY DISPLACE THE SHAFT ABOUT ITS AXIS;

SAID RECESS BEING OF A CONFIGURATION COMPANIONATE TO THE STRIKER TO RECEIVE THE STRIKER THEREIN SUCH THAT THE STRIKER, WHEN IN THE RECESS, IS HELD, WHILE THE SHAFT IS IN ONE POSITION OF ANGULAR DISPLACEMENT, AND, WHEN THE SHAFT IS DISPLACED ANGULARLY RELATIVE TO THE SAID ONE POSITION TO A SECOND POSITION, SAID HOOKED STRIKER IS SLIDABLE INTO AND OUT OF THE RECESS.