Patent ID: 8011699
Filing Date: 2011-09-06
Classification: E05B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An operating mechanism for a movable closure element to releasably engage a strike assembly on a frame support and thereby releasably maintain a movable closure element on which the operating mechanism is mounted in a predetermined position relative to the frame support, the operating mechanism comprising: a base comprising a wall extending around a first axis and defining an elongate tubular passageway; a latch system having: (a) a latched state in which the latch system engages a strike element on the strike assembly so as to maintain a movable closure element on which the operating mechanism is mounted in the predetermined position; and (b) a released state wherein the latch system can be disengaged from a strike element so as to allow a movable closure element on which the operating mechanism is mounted to be moved from the predetermined position; and an actuating system on the base and changeable from a first state into a second state to thereby change the latch system from the latched state into the released state, the actuating system comprising an elongate flexible cable with a length residing at least partially within the passageway and comprising an elongate flexible sheath and a core that is movable guidingly lengthwise relative to the sheath, the cable core having first and second operating portions spaced lengthwise of the cable, the actuating system further comprising an actuating assembly for the elongate flexible cable that is mounted to the wall with the actuating assembly in operative engagement with the base, wherein the first operating portion of the cable core engages the actuating assembly at a first location and the second operating portion of the cable core engages the latch system at a second location, wherein the wall is configured so that the cable cannot be extended in a straight line through the passageway between the first and second locations, the cable core movable relative to the sheath as the actuating system is changed from the first state into the second state to thereby cause the cable core to change the latch system from the latched state into the released state, wherein the sheath has spaced ends and one of the spaced ends is fixed relative to a mounting plate on the base in a predetermined operating orientation.