Patent ID: 7588272

Claim:
A door handle assembly, comprising: a handle mount having an opening therethrough; a manually engageable handle rotatable about an axis, said axis aligned with said opening; a positioning structure fixed relative to said handle mount, said positioning structure having a plurality of associated pairs of locking regions defined by locking surfaces, a locking region of each associated pair being on one side of said axis and the other locking region of each associated pair being on the other side of said axis, and each of said associated pairs of locking regions being spaced at a different predefined distance from said axis; and a pair of mounting studs, said mounting studs adapted to extend through an associated pair of apertures in a door, said mounting studs having lock surfaces that are selectively engageable with said spaced locking surfaces of said positioning structure to enable said elongated mounting studs to be selectively fixed relative to said positioning structure at desired predetermined distances from said axis, further comprising a spring operatively connected with each stud, said spring operating to retain said lock surfaces of said stud in engagement with said locking surfaces of said locking regions.