Patent ID: 9523219
Filing Date: 2016-12-20
CPC Classification: B60J,E05B,E05C,Y10T

Claim Text:
1. A self-latching magnetic gate latch device for latching a hinged gate to a barrier member, the self-latching device comprising: (a) a latch bar housing assembly comprising: (b) a magnet bar housing assembly comprising: wherein, as the elongate vertical magnet bar assembly is in the default downward engagement position, regardless of the position of the guide, and as the hinged gate and the barrier member are juxtaposed, the horizontally-disposed latch bar, which is longitudinally aligned with the magnet in the forward latch bar engagement position, as a result of an attraction force of the magnet, arrives to the forward latch bar engagement position, where the horizontally-disposed latch bar abuts the magnet through the latch hole thereby latching the hinged gate and the barrier member together and wherein, as the elongate vertical magnet bar assembly moved to the upward disengagement position, an increase in a distance between the magnet and the horizontally-disposed latch bar as a result of the upward displacement of the magnet causes the attraction force between the magnet and the horizontally-disposed latch bar to weaken resulting in the horizontally-disposed latch bar being retracted into the default backward latch bar disengagement position thereby unlatching the hinged gate from the barrier member.