Patent ID: 8251413
Filing Date: 2012-08-28
Classification: E05B,E05C,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A bar guide for guiding locking bars on sheet metal cabinet doors, comprising: a carrier which is configured to be secured to the inside surface of a door leaf; and a guide element which is mounted on the carrier, and which has a guide surface whose distance from the inside surface of the door leaf is adjustable; wherein the carrier is a pin with a circumferential thread, and an adjusting screw or adjusting nut is screwed onto the pin; wherein the guide element is a housing which encloses the adjusting screw or adjusting nut, and which has a guide channel forming the guide surface for a locking bar; wherein the guide surface for the locking bar is configured to continuously contact at least half of a cross-sectional perimeter of the locking bar; wherein the adjusting screw or adjusting nut includes: a head; a shaft which adjoins the head, the shaft having a reduced diameter compared to the head; and an axial threaded through-hole or blind hole which receives the pin, such that the distance between the guide surface and the inside surface of the door leaf is adjustable; and wherein the head and the shaft are received, at least partially, by a first bore hole in the housing and the head is supported on a shoulder formed by the housing, this shoulder being formed by a diameter reduction of the first bore hole; and wherein the reduced diameter of the shaft of the adjusting screw or adjusting nut is sized with respect to the diameter reduction of the first bore hole in such a way that the adjusting screw or adjusting nut is retained in the housing with respect to rotation in the first bore hole.