Wilmot-breeden Ltd.

Bomoro Bocklenberg & Motte Gmbh & Co. Kg

Wilfrid D Rogers

Philip S Jeavons

In a cable latch system for a vehicle door, the inside door handle is connected by a single push/pull control cable to a bellcrank lever mounted on the latch housing. The bellcrank lever is itself connected to the locking and release levers of the latch by a vertically disposed spring-loaded push/pull element.

Vehicle door latches

A lock unit or assembly for mounting on an aperture in a panel of a motor vehicle consists of a housing and a retaining sleeve which are held against relative rotation. The housing and sleeve are fitted together into the aperture and are then rotated to bring a projecting lug on the sleeve into a retaining position whereupon relative axial movement is effected between the housing and sleeve to effect resilient interengagement between cooperating formations on the housing and sleeve to hold the sleeve and housing against movement relative to each other or to the panel.

Lock units

The plug of a key-operated locking device is formed in two parts, namely an outer housing which is formed with slots to receive springs which act on tumblers of the device and an inner matrix formed with slots to receive the tumblers. The two parts are locked together by, for example, one of the staking bars normally used as abutment members for the tumbler springs.

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Solihull, United Kingdom

Wilfrid D Rogers