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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4183565 | Latch bolt locking mechanism for fire door locksets To lock the head of a latchbolt in extended, or locked position therein to prevent opening of a door in case of fire the latch bolt head is provided with a spring driven locking pin reciprocatably mounted in a transverse direction. In the extended locked ... | 01/15/1980 |
| 4169618 | Plastic door lock A plastic door lock, sometimes referred to as a door latch, makes use of moldable plastic material for most of the individual parts of the lock assembly with opposite roses adapted to interlock with each other and be held together with a single screw on t... | 10/02/1979 |
| 4141234 | Dead bolt guard A guard mount structure for a dead bolt installation on a door has a preassembled condition wherein a dead bolt subassembly consisting of a housing and a dead bolt shaft is attached to a sheet metal guard. The sheet metal guard has opposite plates for att... | 02/27/1979 |
| 4123097 | Sectional entrance handle retract mechanism For translating the linear motion of a pivotally mounted thumb piece for a front door latch into the rotary motion needed to withdraw a latch bolt, two rotary members are employed. One is a bell crank having a pivotal mounting on the mounting plate at one... | 10/31/1978 |
| 4109494 | Simultaneous retract mechanism The invention involves a mechanism for simultaneously retracting two separate latch bolts which have previously been extended by their individual separate mechanisms. The individual mechanisms comprise a substantially conventional knob actuated latch bolt... | 08/29/1978 |
| 4109496 | Trapped key mechanism A security type dead bolt for a door is arranged so that a key must be used on the inside, as well as on the outside, to extend the dead bolt to locked position, in that way to prevent an unauthorized person opening the door from the inside after surrepti... | 08/29/1978 |
| 4109948 | Plastic latch bolt for door lock A plastic door lock makes use of moldable plastic material for most of the individual parts with opposite roses adapted to interlock with each other and be held together with a single screw on the axial center line of the knobs and accessible from the out... | 08/29/1978 |
| 4109498 | Fire sleeve for tubular locks A resilient sleeve is provided as an accessory to enclose the space around a tubular type door lock mechanism mounted in a hole bored through a door. The diameter of the sleeve is normally larger than the diameter of the bore so that after being contracte... | 08/29/1978 |
| 4108482 | Disengaging spindle locking mechanism A disengaging spindle locking mechanism for the latch bolt of a mortise type lock is actuated by the locking slide which is normally employed to engage a retractor hub to prevent the hub from being rotated. At the inner end of a split spindle where it is ... | 08/22/1978 |
| 4062579 | Knob attachment for door latch A door latch makes use of moldable material for most of the individual parts with opposite roses adapted to interlock with each other and be held together with a single screw on the axial center line of the knobs and accessible from the outside. Prior to ... | 12/13/1977 |
| 3998080 | Frangible construction lock system A pin tumbler lock has a housing, a cylindrical key plug provided with a keyway rotatable in the housing, a shear line between the plug and the housing, pin tumbler bores with aligned parts respectively in the housing and the key plug and spring pressed o... | 12/21/1976 |
