Patent ID: 7421868
Filing Date: 2008-09-09
Classification: E05C,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A multipoint lock comprising: a locking mechanism adapted to selectively retract and extend at least one locking element relative to an elongate housing, wherein said locking mechanism comprises an arm pivotally attached to a lock actuator and constrained to travel in a channel formed in a linkage device linked to said at least one locking element, wherein said channel comprises at least two terminuses extending from and generally perpendicular to said channel at which said arm is in a locked position and said at least one locking element is at an extended position protruding out of said elongate housing, and wherein said at least one locking element extends further out of said elongate housing with said arm at one of the terminuses than at another of the terminuses, wherein the terminuses of said channel comprise an inner terminus, at least one intermediate terminus and an outer terminus, said outer terminus being closer to an end of said elongate housing than said inner terminus, and wherein said channel is a continuously straight channel from said inner terminus to said outer terminus and said at least one intermediate terminus is generally perpendicular to said continuously straight channel, and wherein said arm is arranged for moving in said channel from said inner terminus to said at least one intermediate terminus and to said outer terminus.