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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 17, 2014
Truth Hardware Corporation, Owatonna, MN (US);
Nghi Christopher Nguyen, Owatonna, MN (US);
Michael Neff, Owatonna, MN (US);
Lee Bauman, Owatonna, MN (US);
Loren Rysavy, Owatonna, MN (US);
Derek Ronald Gramstad, Owatonna, MN (US);
Gregory J. Vetter, Owatonna, MN (US);
Truth Hardware Corporation, Owatonna, MN (US);
Abstract
A locking mechanism for use with a window having a hinge coupling a sash to a frame includes a keeper and a locking lug. The keeper includes a generally planar base plate that is abutable to a surface of either the sash or the frame and two wings extending upwardly from the base, each of the wings having an upwardly and inwardly extending portion extending from the base plate and an inwardly extending portion extending inwardly substantially parallel to the base plate from the upwardly and inwardly extending portion. The two inwardly extending portions define a gap therebetween. The planar base further includes at least one self locating leg extending outward and coplanar with the base. The self locating leg adapted to abut a portion of the sash or the frame. Thus, the keeper is positionable without a fixture.