Patent ID: 6264252
Filing Date: 2001-07-24
Classification: E05B,E05C,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
A multi-point sliding door latch adapted to be fitted in a single opening in a lock face of a stile of a door and arranged for coaction with a keeper structure on a associated jamb and for coaction with a handle assembly mounted on the stile of the door and including a tail member operated by a thumb turn or a key lock, the latch comprising:a unitary hollow housing adapted to fit in the stile opening;a pair of vertically spaced upper and lower hooks each pivotally mounted in the housing for movement in opposite pivotal directions between a retracted, unlatched position within a hollow of the housing and an extended, latched position extending out of the hollow of the housing for latching coaction with the keeper structure;and actuator means positioned in the housing intermediate the upper and lower hooks and including a pivot arm adapted to receive a tail member from the handle assembly and mounted on the housing for pivotal movement about a fixed axis and a linkage mechanism interconnecting the pivot arm and the upper and lower hooks and operative in response to turning movement of the pivot arm in one direction about the fixed axis by the tail member to move the upper and lower hooks in unison but in opposite pivotal directions between their unlatched and latched positions.