Patent ID: 8864195
Filing Date: 2014-10-21
Classification: E05B,E05C,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A portable length adjustable wedge device for locking any of a sliding door, a sliding panel, a sliding window, and a sliding patio door, said device comprising: an elongated first barrel having first and second ends; an elongated second having first and second ends, said first and second barrels being relatively dimensioned to provide for at least a portion of said second barrel to be slideably received in an interior portion or cavity of said first barrel; said first barrel being configured to receive at its second end said first end of said second barrel, for permitting a portion of said second barrel to be slid into said first barrel; means for incrementally adjusting and fixing the length of said second barrel within said first barrel to attain an initial desired overall length between said first barrel and the extension therefrom of said second barrel, the overall length providing for extended ends of said first and second barrels to fit loosely between a stationary frame of said door or window and an opposing movable frame of a movable portion of said door or window; means for securing said second end of said second barrel in a freely rotatable manner while at a fixed position, either one of attached or mounted or connected to one of said stationary frame or said movable frame, on a longitudinal axis, whereby the longitudinal axis is a common axis, in a longitudinal direction, along the center of both the first and second barrels; and fine adjustment means securing the first end of said first barrel to the other one of said stationary frame or movable frame, said fine adjustment means and the first end of said first barrel being inter-cooperatively adapted for permitting rotation in unison of said first and second barrels in one direction to smoothly extend the overall length thereof, in a non-incremental manner, to rigidly secure said device between the opposing stationary and movable frames of said door or window to lock an associated movable member in a closed position, and the aforesaid rotation in an opposite direction for unlocking the movable member.