Electric strike horizontal adjustment

• US 7,669,902 B2
• Filed: 01/28/2008
• Issued: 03/02/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/28/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Trine Access Technology, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Trine Access Technology, Inc.
• Inventors: Orbeta, Ferdinand E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lugo; Carlos
• Application Number:
  US12/020,734
• Publication Number:
  US 20090188289A1
• Time in Patent Office: 764 Days
• Field of Search: 292/340, 292/341, 292/341.18, 292/341.19, 292/DIG.60
• US Class Current: 292/340
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 15/024 adjustable
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 17/0062 with destructive disengagement
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 47/0047 Striker rotating about an axis parallel to the wing edge
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 292/60 Adjustment provisions
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 292/68 Keepers
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 292/705 Adjustable
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 292/707 Vertically
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/7113 Projected and retracted electrically
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/80 Parts, attachments, accessories and adjuncts

Abstract

An electrically-operable strike for locking and unlocking doors. The strike is mounted on a face plate which in turn is mounted on a door jamb. The face plate is provided with mounting apertures which receive adjustment inserts each having an offset aperture for a mounting screw for mounting the strike on the face plate. The face plate also has a tongue extending distally from a lip and a break-off portion at the distal end of the tongue. The strike is first mounted with the offset apertures in a distal position. If the strike does not function properly due to preload, the strike is remounted with the offset apertures in a proximal position and the break-off portion is removed.

Claims

1. A striker assembly for mounting an electrically-operable door strike in a door jamb, the assembly comprising:

a strike housing comprising an electrically-operable door strike, and

a face plate having;

a substantially flat portion, having an inner surface and an outer surface, a convex lip extending from a proximal terminus of the flat portion downwardly from the outer surface, a channel extending from the lip toward a distal edge of the flat portion, a tongue extending from the lip distally along the channel in parallel with the inner surface and recessed away from the inner surface, the tongue having a length and a distal end, the distal end having a snap-off portion which can be removed to shorten the length, the channel and the tongue acting as a guide for a bolt of a door lock,

mounting apertures disposed in the flat portion for mounting the strike housing on the inner surface, each mounting aperture being shaped and sized to receive from the outer surface an adjustment insert, each adjustment insert having a main body having an offset aperture for a mounting screw and an extension extending from the main body and each mounting aperture having a peripheral flange that receives the extension, each adjustment insert being shaped and sized to fit in a respective mounting aperture in a first position wherein the offset aperture and the strike housing are distally disposed or in a second position wherein the offset aperture and the strike housing are proximally disposed and the snap-off portion is removed from the tongue, and the main body rests against the flange in both the first position and the second position.

2. The face plate of claim 1 further comprising installation apertures disposed in the flat portion for installing the face plate to a door jamb.