Patent ID: 6698260
Filing Date: 2004-03-02
Classification: E05B,Y10T

Abstract:
A door lock set comprising:an outer lock formed on an outside of a door and protruding inwardly through a lock hole formed through a thickness of the door; said outer lock including: a locking core rotatably held in the outer lock, a spindle connected to the locking core, a flange circumferentially formed on an outer periphery of the outer lock and two screw holes formed in an inner portion of the outer lock an outer trim plate having a circular edge portion formed around a central lock hole in said outer trim plate and disposed about by said flange of the outer lock for retaining the outer trim plate on an outside surface of the door; a latch device formed in the door and driven by said outer lock for protruding a latch for locking the door on a door frame; said latch device including: said latch slidably held in an end plate fixed on a locking end wall of the door adjacent to a door frame, a casing connected with the end plate for slidably holding the latch therein about a latitudinal axis defined at a center of said latch, two sleeve holes formed in the casing, and a driving mechanism formed in the casing and connected with the spindle as linked between the outer lock and an inner knob for operatively protruding the latch outwardly from the casing and the end plate for locking the door on the door frame an inner reinforced retaining member fastened with the outer lock to be retained on an inside surface of the door; said inner reinforced retaining member including: a central hole for mounting the inner knob, two outer sleeves protruding from the inner reinforced retaining member, through the sleeve holes formed in said casing of said latch device, to stably position said latch device between an outside and inside of the door, towards the outside surface of the door, two outer fastening screws each passing through each said outer sleeve and engaging with each of two screw holes formed in the outer lock for fastening the outer lock and the outer trim plate with the inner reinforced retaining member to be respectively retained on the outside surface and the inside surface of the door, two holes formed in the inner reinforced retaining member, and two female-threaded sockets formed on the inner reinforced retaining member; an outer reinforced retaining member encased in said outer trim plate and fastened with said inner reinforced retaining member across the thickness of said door for firmly fastening said outer and inner reinforced retaining members in between the outside and inside surfaces of said door and for retaining said outer trim plate on said outside surface of said door; said outer reinforced retaining member including: a central lock hole for engaging the outer lock, two female-threaded sleeves protruding from the outer reinforced retaining member towards the inside of the door for engaging two fastening screws, as rotatably engaging with the two holes formed in said inner reinforced retaining member, in the two female-threaded sleeves of said outer reinforced retaining member for coupling and fastening the inner and outer reinforced retaining members in between the outside and inside surfaces of the door; an inner trim plate having two inner fastening screws passing through said inner trim plate to be engaged with the two female-threaded sockets formed on said inner reinforced retaining member to be fastened to said inner reinforced retaining member and retained on the inside surface of said door for encasing said inner reinforced retaining member in said inner trim plate; and said inner knob rotatably or pivotally formed on said inner trim plate and linked with said outer lock by said spindle passing through said latch device positioned between the outer and inner trim plates; and both said outer and inner reinforced retaining members disposed on opposite side surfaces of said door for shielding the lock hole formed through the thickness of said door for preventing intrusion into the lock hole from said outer trim plate; whereby upon fastening of both said inner and outer reinforced retaining members on said door, said door lock set is strongly reinforced and well supported.