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Clothes drier latch

  • US 4,047,616 A
  • Filed: 03/10/1976
  • Issued: 09/13/1977
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/11/1975
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A latch useful on a clothes drier of the type wherein one member is slidable over another member, one of the members being a bush having a series of arms pivoted thereto and radiating therefrom, the arms being movable from a retracted position with the bush in a downward location to an extended operative position with the bush in a relative upward location, the latch comprising:

  • a latching body on one of the members and a striker plate co-operable therewith on the other member, the latching body having a boss, a retaining tongue and a latching tongue with a ramp face and the striker plate having a sliding surface and a latching surface, said ramp face upon upward movement of the bush sliding over the sliding surface, the ramp face terminating in a latching shoulder engageable with said latching surface to thereby effect an interlock between the bush and said another member when the bush is in said relative upward location, the tongues being of resilient material deformable away from the striker plate to effect interlock release and engagement,said latching body also comprising a retaining shoulder spaced from one end surface of the retaining tongue to define a notch, said bush having a web which is engaged in said notch, said boss engaging a surface of said sliding bush when the web is engaged in the notch to thereby retain the latching body to the sliding bush.

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