Patent ID: 6568725
Filing Date: 2003-05-27
Classification: E05B,E05C,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
A door lock chassis, comprising:a slide having a cam surface; a spindle defining a chassis axis and having a cain, the cam being adapted to engage the cam surface and translate rotational motion of the spindle around the chassis axis into linear motion of the slide along a slide axis, which is substantially perpendicular to the chassis axis; a housing comprising two substantially identical housing halves, which, when oriented relative to each other approximately 1800 around the slide axis, mate with each other to form the housing, the housing being formed to define a chamber adapted to facilitate sliding motion of the slide within the chamber and relative to the housing; and wherein each housing half comprises a substantially circular base, the base having a first side, a second side, and a circumference, and each housing half further includes a sidewall projecting from the first side of the base of the housing half and positioned along a portion of the circumference, each sidewall having an outer surface that comprises an outer surface of the housing and is positioned to lie adjacent to an inner surThce of a bore in a door into which the door lock chassis is installed.