Patent ID: 6095577
Filing Date: 2000-08-01
Classification: E05B,Y10T

Abstract:
Locking clamp for a motor vehicle locking means comprising a support body, which is formed of a single metal sheet that has been bent into a U shape having a pair of legs and a connecting bridge, and part of which forms a base plate for attaching of the locking clamp to a chassis component, and a locking bolt which extends between the legs of support body for engaging a latch with an assigned lock mechanism, a free space into which part of the latch is insertable being bounded by the support body and the locking bolt; wherein the locking bolt is made as a part of the same single metal sheet as the support body as an extension of a first of the legs of the support body which is joined at an end to a second of the legs, wherein said locking bolt is a hollow cylindric portion of said metal sheet having adjoining sheet edge extending parallel to a longitudinal axis of the locking bolt.