Patent ID: 7740291

Claim:
A door handle assembly comprising: (A) a door handle having an actuator extending from the door handle; (B) a mount, the door handle being attached to the mount; (C) a bolt, the bolt being movable from a first bolt position where at least a portion of the bolt is inside a wall aperture thereby engaging the door into the wall aperture to a second bolt position where the portion of the bolt is outside the wall aperture thereby disengaging the door from the wall aperture, the bolt having an actuator opening formed therein, the actuator passing into the actuator opening, wherein when the door handle is moved, the bolt moves from the first bolt position to the second bolt position; (D) a cam assembly disposed adjacent to the bolt, the cam assembly comprising: (a) a locking cam configured to abut at least a portion of the bolt and to lock the bolt in the first bolt position; and (b) a cam latch attached to one end of a cam shaft, the cam latch being adapted to allow a user to actuate the cam assembly; wherein the cam assembly is moveable between an unlocked position and a locked position, the locked position corresponding to the bolt being located in the first bolt position; and (E) a lock release mechanism coupled with the cam assembly and configured to cause the locking cam to move from the locked position to the unlocked position, the lock release mechanism comprising: (a) a release cam abutting the locking cam; and (b) a return spring connected to the release cam, the return spring being adapted to move the release cam and the cam assembly to the unlocked position when the door handle is moved.