Vanguard Plastics Ltd.

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Vanguard Plastics (1971) Ltd.

James S Follows

Douglas Grant

Gerhard Stanley Bergen

Door handle

A device for securing a closure. An illustrated latching device is for releasably securing a closure such as a window. The device includes a base for mounting, typically to a pivotally mounted window frame. The base has an upstanding hollow threaded shaft. There is a handle having a downwardly depending threaded cylinder the threads mating with the threads of the shaft to permit rotation of the handle between lower and upper positions. The handle includes an abutment for abutting a surrounding window frame to preclude relative movement of the pivotal frame when the handle is in the lower position. There is a downwardly open cap of resiliently deformable material connected to a downwardly directed stem extending from an upper interior end of the cylinder and received within an interior of the hollow shaft and abutments extending radially outwardly of the cap and radially inwardly of a wall of the shaft, the abutments being located such that when the handle is in the lower position the resiliently deformable material exhibits a first stress minimum. The abutments are further located such that when the handle is in the upper position the stress of the deformable material exhibits a second stress minimum, the lower and upper positions of the handle are rotationally spaced 90.degree. from each other, and, when the handle is rotated between the lower and upper positions, the material exhibits a stress maximum at a position rotationally intermediate the upper and lower positions of the handle.

Device for securing a closure such as a window

A shelf support bracket for supporting a shelf in a cabinet of the type having a plurality of shelves, the vertical positioning of which is effected by movement of the shelf support brackets, includes a backplate adapted for mounting against a sidewall of said cabinet, the sidewall of the cabinet and the shelf support bracket being constructed and arranged for removably mounting the shelf support bracket on the cabinet sidewall. A shelf support plate projects from a first surface of the backplate and is adapted to receive an edge portion of a shelf. A shelf-retaining structure is affixed to the backplate in a position spaced from the shelf support plate and cooperates therewith to retain the shelf edge portion on the support plate. The retaining structure includes a first portion lying substantially in the plane of the backplate and at least one planar ear portion contiguous with the first portion and extending therefrom obliquely to the plane of the backplate in a substantially upright orientation, the ear portion being resiliently yieldable to permit movement of the ear portion toward the plane of the backplate to permit passage of the shelf edge portion onto the shelf support plate whereupon the ear portion returns to its original position and overlies the shelf edge portion. The shelf edge portion is therefore intermediate the bottom edge of the ear portion and the upper surface of the support plate when positioned on the shelf support bracket.

Cabinet shelf support bracket

A latching drop lock for a movable closure member such as a sliding glass window includes a lock body that supports a pivotably mounted, elongated latch element. The lock body and the latch element are slidable as a unit along one side of the movable frame and are slidably engaged in a peripheral channel thereof. The lock body includes a lock bolt element that is insertable in an aperture in the fixed frame to secure the sliding window in a closed position. The elongated latch element includes at one end a detent that is fixedly engageable with the window frame to secure the drop lock in the locked position. The latch element further includes an integral resilient bias spring that urges the lock element rotated about its pivot axis so as to engage the detent whenever the drop lock is slid to the locked position. The latch element further includes manually depressible means operable to disengage the detent and unlatch the drop lock. Two separate motions are required to unlatch and unlock the sliding window, namely, depression of the depressible means and simultaneous upward sliding of the drop lock assembly, thereby reducing the drop lock relatively invulnerable to tampering and picking.

Latching drop lock for sliding closure member

A rain gutter joint includes upper and lower clamping members between which adjacent ends of a pair of rain gutter troughs are clamped and joined together. Cooperable pin and socket assemblies in the clamping members enable the members to be fastened with conventional fasteners without exposing such fasteners to standing water in the rain gutter. The joint apparatus accommodates thermal expansion and contraction of the rain gutter troughs and yet also provides a superior watertight seal between the troughs.

Rain gutter joint

A shelf and clothes rod assembly for a closet includes a shelf and a clothes rod supported at their opposite ends by single piece closet fittings affixed to opposing closet walls. Each fitting comprises a first solid wall to abut a wall of the closet. A second wall is longitudinal of and substantially perpendicular to the first wall and supports a shelf when the fitting is in its useful position. A rod-receiving recess defined by a curved wall is formed on the first wall, below the second wall when its fitting is in its useful position. There are means in said first wall to permit mounting of the fitting on a closet wall. The fitting is durable and extremely easy to position.

Shelf and clothes rod assembly for a closet

Closet fitting for supporting a shelf and a hanger rod

A lock for a slidable door. The lock comprises an elongate body formed with an open catch compartment. A back plate closes the catch compartment. There is a catch opening in a first side wall of the catch compartment. A pivotable hub is borne by aligned bearing means in the back plate of the catch compartment. A catch is mounted on the hub and is reciprocable with the hub between a lock position from which the catch projects through the catch opening and an unlocked position in which the catch is within the catch compartment. The lock has means to permit selection of the lock or unlock position of the catch and means to maintain the catch in the selected position.

Lock for a slidable door

A bar spacer for concrete reinforcing bars. The spacer comprises, a foot portion to contact a form for concrete. A bar gripping portion is adapted to grip reinforcing bar for concrete. A plurality of spaced teeth are formed on the internal surface of the bar gripping portion. The teeth are arranged so that each tooth is out of alignment with the tooth next to it whereby each tooth can bend to a position past its neighboring tooth. This ensures that each spacer can grip and locate bars of varying diameter.

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Surrey, Canada

James S Follows