Patent ID: 8438887

Claim:
A door lock assembly comprising: a mounting assembly fixedly mounted on an outside surface of a door panel; a handle assembly rotatably coupled to the mounting assembly outside a plane defined by a face of the door panel and including a gripping portion and a latch housing, the latch housing and being located entirely outside the plane of the door panel; and a latch bolt assembly housed entirely within the handle assembly and being located entirely outside the plane of the door panel, the latch bolt assembly including a latch bolt, wherein the latch bolt rotates with the handle assembly such that they are substantially horizontally oriented when the door lock assembly is in a locked position and substantially vertically oriented when the door lock assembly is in an unlocked position, the latch bolt movably coupled to the latch housing such that the latch bolt translates between an extended position wherein the latch bolt at least partially extends from the latch housing and a retracted position wherein the latch bolt is retracted into the latch housing.