Norris Industries, Inc.

Masco Building Products Corp.

Hagen Dietrich

Joseph Potschka

William J Fane

Dennis G Potter

A selectively self-locking deadbolt latch for incorporation into doors or the like. The latch can be preliminarily 'armed' such that as the door closes the bolt will extend into the opening of the door strike. The latch mechanism includes a cam lever having a shoulder which loads against the bolt extension. A compression spring within the bolt urges the bolt towards the locked position once the cam lever is released from the bolt extension by closing the door. The temporary retraction of the bolt as it engages the door strike releases the bolt and cam lever. A beam spring acting on the cam lever urges the cam lever forward towards the locked position. The bolt is initially armed by turning the inner turn lever slightly or by depressing the end of the bolt which includes chamfered edges to allow the bolt to move past the door strike for release.

Selective self-locking deadbolt latch

A door latch having an adjustable backset position which allows it to be used in doors having either a 23/8' backset or a 23/4' backset. The latch includes a cam which extends and retracts the latch bolt and has a rotational axis which is movable between the backset positions. The cam lever cooperates with a bolt extension which adjustably engages the bolt such that upon transposition of the cam lever, the bolt extension is adjusted relative to the bolt accordingly. A cam stabilizer plate prevents adjustment of the backset once the latch is installed.

Backset adjustable door latch

A self-adjusting door strike for a bolt assembly which adjusts to existing door conditions by deflecting a resilient member against the bolt of the door thereby eliminating rattle. The strike includes a conventional strike plate having a compensating member spanning the strike opening. The resilient compensating member can be in the form of a resilient plastic member or rollers axially mounted to a spring-wire. This compensating member engages the bolt to prevent the door and bolt mechanism from rattling within the strike while also compensating for shrinkage or warping of the door.

Self-adjusting door strike

One part of a key-in-knob lock set functions in a normal manner such that when the lock set is unlocked, either the outside or inside knob can be manipulated to open the door by withdrawing the latch bolt from a normal spring latch extended position. When, instead, the lock set is locked, the latch bolt is extended an exceptionally long distance into the frame to a dead bolt position. Extension and retraction of the latch bolt to and from dead bolt position is accomplished by manipulation of a main cam through the agency of a key in the outside or a turn button on the inside. For withdrawing the latch bolt from the normal spring latch extended position, an escutcheon housing for the outside knob or a corresponding escutcheon housing for the inside knob serves, by moving transversely of the axis of rotation of the knob, to rotate a radially extending tooth-like element on the spindle which, acting through the main cam, withdraws the latch bolt. By rotation of the key on the outside, or the turn button on the inside, the spindle is rotated a greater amount, far enough to have the main cam extend the latch bolt an additional distance to the dead bolt position. In that dead bolt position the tooth-like element for the hub cam of the outside knob is moved out of the path of movement of the respective drive housing so that rotation of the outside knob has no effect on the latch bolt. The tooth-like element for the hub cam of the inside knob remains, however, in movable engagement with the corresponding drive housing so that rotation of the inside knob does in fact withdraw the latch bolt from the dead bolt position.

Spring/dead bolt lock assembly

One part of a key-in-knob lock set functions in a normal manner such that when the lock set is unlocked, either the outside or inside knob can be manipulated to open the door by withdrawing the latch bolt from a normal spring latch extended position. When, instead, the lock set is locked, the latch bolt is extended an exceptionally long distance into the frame to a dead bolt position. Extension and retraction of the latch bolt to and from dead bolt position is accomplished by manipulation of a main cam through the agency of a key in the outside knob or a turn button on the inside knob. For withdrawing the latch bolt from the normal spring latch extended position an escutcheon housing for the outside knob or a corresponding escutcheon housing for the inside knob serves, by moving transversely of the axis of rotation of the knob, to rotate a radially extending finger on the spindle which, acting through the main cam, withdraws the latch bolt. By rotation of the key in the outside knob, or the turn button on the inside knob, the spindle is rotated a greater amount, far enough to have the main cam extend the latch bolt an additional distance to the dead bolt position. In that deadbolt position the finger for the hub cam of the outside knob is moved out of the path of movement of the respective drive housing so that rotation of the outside knob has no effect on the latch bolt. The finger for the hub cam of the inside knob remains, however, in the path of movement of the corresponding drive housing so that rotation of the inside knob does in fact withdraw the latch bolt from the dead bolt position.

Combination spring/dead bolt lock

A dead bolt lock set is designed to be key actuated on the inside as well as on the outside of the door. For the inside there is an inside tailpiece in engagement with a drive slot in the dead bolt hub. A lost motion circumferential recess on the inside tailpiece provides stops at positions such that when the key is inserted on the inside and turned to lock the dead bolt by action of a micro drive pin, the key cannot be returned in reverse direction to key release position without unlocking the dead bolt. Consequently, the key must remain captive in the inside keyway to keep the dead bolt locked because of being held in the cylinder by the pin tumblers. When the lock has been locked from the outside, the drive slot in the head of the tailpiece is rotated out of line with the inside key slot. Under this condition when unlocking from the inner trim, the tailpiece and washer are forced inward by the key tip compressing the conical spring and allowing full key insertion. Bolt retraction (unlocking) may be accomplished by rotation of the key in the bolt extended direction until the key tip aligns with the tailpiece drive slot, then rotating the key back to the vertical (withdrawn) position, or, in the alternative, rotating the key in the retract direction, whereby the micro pin contacts the lost motion stop on the tailpiece head thereby driving the mechanism to the retracted position. The captive key mechanism is fail safe in that in the event the conical spring fails to return the tailpiece to a position abutting the end of cylinder plug for captive kay operation, the mechanism will still function as a standard cylinder allowing normal locking and unlocking.

Inner locking cylinder with captive key

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 the axial center line of the knobs and accessible from the outside. When used as a privacy lock unlocking the lock from the outside is prevented by pushing the inside knob into a releasable but non-rotatable engagement with the inside rose. A lost motion connection between the latch bolt and roll back spindle allows the door to be closed without damage to the latch bolt when the inside knob is locked. Inherent resiliency in the material of the latch bolt case, in cooperation with the movable latch bolt, releasably returns and holds the latch bolt in extended position.

Plastic door lock

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 contracted and a pair of lugs are projected under the edge of the trim on one side, the sleeve will expand to the interior size of the bore and at the same time the lugs will engage beneath the edge of the trim.

Fire sleeve for tubular locks

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 outside. A lost motion connection between the latch bolt and spindle allows the door to be closed without damage to the latch bolt when the inside knob is locked. Inherent resiliency in the material of the latch bolt case formed into spring fingers, in cooperation with the movable latch bolt shaft, releasably returns the latch bolt shaft to, and holds the shaft in extended position. Under some circumstances spring action of the fingers is supplemented with an auxiliary separate spring element to vary the spring return characteristics of the latch bolt and the knobs.

Plastic latch bolt for door lock

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 in non-rotatable engagement with the retractor hub there is a cam surface. On the inner end of a locking slide is a cam surface which cams the spindle out of engagement with the hub as hub action is blocked by the slide. Thereafter, should force be applied to the spindle, it will merely spin in place and no damage will be done to the lock mechanism such as might otherwise be done by unauthorized persons to force open the lock.

Disengaging spindle locking mechanism

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 installation of the latch on the door each knob is subassembled with the corresponding rose by employment of an arcuate shoulder on an inner central portion of the knob which is rotated to a position of engagement with a complementary arcuate shoulder in the rose. Rotation inhibiting detents prevent accidental disassembly until the spindle is mounted in place and the spindle then locks the knob against disassembly as long as the latch remains mounted on the door.

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