Takigen Seizou Co., Ltd.

Kunuhiko Takasaki

A lock for a refrigerator or the like which can be unlocked from the inside thereof comprises a handle unit mounted on a door and a keeper mounted on a body frame wall of the refrigerator or the like. The keeper is constituted by a fixed seat and a movable body having its outer proximal end pivotally attached to the outer end of the fixed seat. A follower pin provided at an intermediate portion of a lock shaft is slidably urged by a spring toward the fixed seat inner end so as to abut on an inclined cam surface formed on the outer end surface of the fixed seat inner end. An actuating lever pivotally attached to the outer end of the fixed seat is rotated with a push rod, inside the refrigerator or the like, which is inserted through a guide hole in the center of the fixed seat so that the follower pin is pushed by the inner end of the actuating lever to cause the lock shaft to slide outwardly while rotating, to permit the lock shaft to escape from a bearing hole in the movable body, thereby allowing the movable body to be rotatable with respect to the fixed seat.

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Chiba, Japan

Kunuhiko Takasaki