SLIDING GLASS LOCKS

• US 3,827,184 A
• Filed: 10/12/1972
• Issued: 08/06/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 11/08/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Jean-Claude Pennec, Michel Marcel Valacon
• Original Assignee: Jean-Claude Pennec, Michel Marcel Valacon
• Inventors: Pennec, Jean-Claude, Valacon, Michel Marcel
• Primary Examiner(s): Downey, Kenneth
• Application Number:
  US05/296,850
• Time in Patent Office: 663 Days
• Field of Search: 49/413,449 292/171,174,175,164,337,DIG.53
• US Class Current: 49/449
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 65/0864 the bolts sliding perpendicular to the wings
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 292/53 Mounting and attachment
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 292/097 Operating means
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 292/0997 Rigid
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 292/62 Bolt casings

Abstract

Device for locking and operating sliding glasses, notably in automative automotive and adapted to lock the glasses in their closed position. This device comprises a support secured to the inner glass and provided with an integral projection on which the lock body is adapted to slide, resilient means constantly urging said lock body against the glass, said lock body further comprising a recess adapted to receive a lock bolt constantly urged by a coil spring towards the outside of said recess so as to project from the inner glass, said lock bolt being adapted to engage a blind hole formed in the vicinity of the inner edge of the outer glass.

Claims

1. Device for operating and locking sliding inner and outer glasses, notably in motor vehicles, adapted to lock the glasses in the closed position, comprising a support secured to the inner glass and provided with an integral projection on which the lock body is adapted to slide, resilient means constantly urging said lock body against the glass, said lock body further comprising a recess adapted to receive a lock bolt having a shoulder engaged by a coil spring with said shoulder being spaced from and parallel to the bottom of said recess through which the bolt extends, said lock bolt being constantly urged by said coil spring towards the outside of said recess so as to project from the inner glass, said lock bolt being adapted to engage a blind hole foRmed in the vicinity of the inner edge of the outer glass and said lock bolt abutting against the bottom of said blind hole before said shoulder thereof, which is engaged by said coil spring, contacts the bottom of said recess.

2. Sliding glass lock according to claim 1, wherein said blind hole is formed in a protection skirt maintained on said outer glass by a tapered nut.

3. Lock according to claim 1, wherein said blind hole is formed through a tapered washer of suitable material such as Zamak adapted to be cemented to the inner surface of said outer glass.