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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 1998
Filed:
Jan. 29, 1997
Sou Koike, Toyama-ken, JP;
Masao Hirano, Toyama-ken, JP;
YKK Architectural Products Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An extrusion molded aluminum elongated vertical frame element for constituting a door or window leaf of a hinged door or window comprises first and second vertical plates respectively providing a surface substantively parallel to a door or window face direction and third and fourth vertical plates respectively providing a surface substantively parallel to a door or window thickness direction, thereby having a hollow structure and a substantively rectangular cross section. The fourth vertical plate is provided with an cutout opening. A reinforcing member made of steel, a spacer made of steel and a cremorne lock having a lock body is inserted in the hollow structure of the vertical frame element. The reinforcing member is placed and fixed to the side of the third vertical plate within the hollow structure of the vertical frame element, the spacer is made to abut against the reinforcing member, and the lock body of the cremorne lock is, on one hand, made to abut against the spacer and on the other hand engaged in the cutout opening of the fourth vertical plate. The lock body of the cremorne lock is fixed to the reinforcing member by bolts with the spacer interposed therebetween.