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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2000
John E. Aspenwall, Lehi, UT (US);
Jahabow Industries, Inc., Owensville, MO (US);
Abstract
A sliding doors lock hinge for maintaining a pair of sliding doors together at their overlapping ends that includes first and second door end mounts that are hinge connected and formed to fit over the opposing door ends and the second door end mount includes a hinged hasp strap that has a slot therein to pass over a tab that is secured to an outer face of a forward door frame end. The tab can be fix or is pivot mounted to the frame face and includes a hole therethrough for receiving an end of a padlock shackle fitted therethrough and locked in the padlock body. The first door end mount is formed from a section of channel to fit over an inner door frame end and has a side wall that is common with the second door end mount, and the edge of which common side is hinge connected to a nose end plate to fit over a door frame end that, in turn, is hinge connected, at its opposite end, to the end of the hasp strap, and which end plate and hasp strap preferrably include sections of pading material secured to their door end engaging surfaces.