Patent ID: 9464467
Filing Date: 2016-10-11
CPC Classification: E05B,E05C,E06B

Claim Text:
1. A residential safety barrier comprising a gate latch apparatus, the residential safety barrier having a gate and a barrier portion confronting the gate, the gate being openable relative to the barrier portion, the gate having a horizontally extending support member, the gate latch apparatus comprising: a) a latch receptor engaged to the barrier portion; b) a housing engaged to the gate across from the latch receptor, the housing having a first housing side, a second housing side, and an open distal housing end, the first and second housing sides opposing each other; c) a latch in the housing, the latch being slideable in first and second directions, the latch having a distal latch end that extends out of the open distal housing end, the latch being slideable in the first direction to slide the distal latch end out of the latch receptor, the latch being slideable in the second direction to slide the distal latch end into the latch receptor; d) a first button on the first housing side, the first button being engaged to the housing in a normal position, the first button being depressible inwardly into the housing, the first button when depressed being disengaged from the housing; and e) a first slide on the first housing side, said first slide being held from sliding by said first button in said normal position, the first slide being slideable in the first direction when the first button is disengaged from the housing, the first slide when slid in the first direction also sliding the latch in the first direction to slide the distal latch end out of the latch receptor to permit the gate to be opened relative to the barrier portion; f) wherein the latch is engaged to and slideable on the horizontally extending support member of the gate; and g) wherein the latch includes an open proximal latch end that receives the horizontally extending support member of the gate and that slides on the horizontally extending support member of the gate.