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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2007
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2003
Ricci L. Marzolf, New Hampton, IA (US);
Joe Daniel Knight, Nashua, IA (US);
Bruce E. Kallevig, Monticello, MN (US);
Bruce E. Frohman, Robbinsdale, MN (US);
Ricci L. Marzolf, New Hampton, IA (US);
Joe Daniel Knight, Nashua, IA (US);
Bruce E. Kallevig, Monticello, MN (US);
Bruce E. Frohman, Robbinsdale, MN (US);
Tri/Mark Corporation, New Hampton, IA (US);
Abstract
A latch assembly for a movable closure element. The latch assembly has a housing, a first rotor movable relative to the housing selectively between a) a first latched position and b) a release position, and a second rotor movable relative to the housing selectively between a) a first latched position and b) a release position. The first rotor has a first throat to receive a strike element. The latch assembly further has an operating assembly with a latched state and an unlatched state. The operating assembly in the latched state releasably maintains the first rotor in its first latched position and the second rotor in its first latched position. The first rotor is movable substantially parallel to a reference plane as the first rotor moves between its first latched and release positions. The first rotor has a non-uniform thickness taken orthogonally to the reference plane.