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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 1987
Filed:
Apr. 11, 1986
Jye P Swan, Brunswick Hills, OH (US);
Lee S Weinerman, Median, OH (US);
Steven A Mayo, Akron, OH (US);
The Eastern Company, Strongsville, OH (US);
Abstract
A rotary handle operated lock includes a pan-shaped housing member that has a back wall at the base of a forwardly facing recess. A guide member is welded to the rear face of the back wall and cooperates with the back wall to define a sturdy guide channel which slidably mounts a control member form movement between locked and unlocked positions. A shaft extends through aligned holes that are formed in the back wall and in the guide member, and through a keyhole shaped slot that is formed in the control member. The shaft has a front end region that carries a pivotally mounted, nestable operating handle, and a rear end region that carries a latching arm. The operating handle and the latching arm rotate with the shaft between latched and unlatched positions. The shaft has opposed flat side surfaces that are selectively engaged and released by the opposed flat sides of the keyhole shaped slot when the control member is moved to its locked and unlocked positions, respectively, whereby the shaft is prevented from rotating or permitted to rotate.