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Combined latch housing and interengageable strike plate

Granted 13 Aug 1991 · no office action yet

Current assignee: AMEROCK CORPORATION, A CORP. OF CT. · originally the eastern company

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Inventors: Lee S. Weinerman, Joel T. Vargus · Examiner: Wallace R. Burke · AU 291 · TC 2900

Application
390214
filed 7 Aug 1989
Publication
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US D319001
granted 13 Aug 1991

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a top, front and left…

FIG. 1 is a top, front and left side perspective view of a combined latch housing and interengageable strike plate showing our new design;

FIG. 2 is a bottom, front and right side perspective view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a front elevational view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a right side elevational view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a top plan view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a bottom plan view thereof;

FIG. 7 is a rear elevational view thereof;

FIG. 8 is a left side elevational view thereof;

FIG. 9 is an exploded perspective view thereof;

FIG. 10 is a rear elevational view of the latch housing portion thereof, the strike plate being omitted for clarity of illustration;

FIG. 11 is a right side elevational view of the latch housing thereof;

FIG. 12 is a bottom plan view of the latch housing thereof;

FIG. 13 is a top plan view of the latch housing thereof;

FIG. 14 is a left side elevational view of the latch housing thereof;

FIG. 15 is a left side elevational view of the strike plate portion thereof, the latch housing being omitted for clairty of illustration;

FIG. 16 is a rear elevational view of the strike plate thereof;

FIG. 17 is a perspective view thereof, with the broken-line showing of the rotary locking elements being for illustrative purposes only and forming no part of the claimed design;

FIG. 18 is an exploded perspective view thereof;

FIG. 19 is an exploded perspective view similar to FIG. 9 but of a second embodiment of the combined latch housing and interengageable strike plate, it being understood that all elements of the second embodiment present simply a mirror image of the embodiment of FIGS. 1-18;

FIG. 20 is a top, front and left side perspective view similar to FIG. 9 but of a third embodiment combined latch housing and interengageable strike plate showing our new design; and,

FIG. 21 is an exploded perspective view similar to FIG. 9 but of a fourth embodiment of the combined latch housing and interengageable strike plate, it being understood that all elements of the fourth embodiment present simply a mirror image of the embodiment of FIG. 20.

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D08/331

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