Patent ID: 6935149

Claim:
An electric door lock comprising: a housing, a handle rotatably attached to said housing, a lock device engaged in said handle, a follower received in said housing and secured to said handle, to rotatably secure said handle to said housing, an electromagnetic control device including a receptacle rotatably received in said following a plunger slidably engaged in said receptacle and extendible out of said receptacle to engage with said follower, and means for selectively latching said plunger to said receptacle, and to maintain an engagement of said plunger with said follower, and to allow said receptacle of said electromagnetic control device to be selectively latched to said follower with said selectively latching means, and means for selectively connecting said lock device to said plunger, to selectively latch said plunger to said receptacle, and to allow said receptacle of said electromagnetic control device to be selectively latched to said follower with said selectively connecting means.