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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 22, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2018
Milgard Manufacturing Llc, Tacoma, WA (US);
John Tremble, Redmond, WA (US);
Gordon H. Liebel, Buckley, WA (US);
Kevin D. Vilhauer, Puyallup, WA (US);
Dan Blase, Everett, WA (US);
R. Lee Rawls, Woodinville, WA (US);
James A. Duncan, Renton, WA (US);
MILGARD MANUFACTURING LLC, Tacoma, WA (US);
Abstract
A window latch for a sliding window having a sliding sash including a latch plate and a housing. The housing includes an engagement element movable relative to the housing from a locked position operatively engaged with the latch plate to an unlocked position disengaged from the latch plate. A handle is operatively coupled to the engagement element and movable from a first position to a second position in a first direction corresponding to the direction the sliding sash to which the handle is attached moves to an open position. The handle operatively moves the engagement element from the locked position to the unlocked position as the handle is moved in the first direction toward the second position.