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Bar enclosure for sheet metal cabinet doors

US4998757A · kind A · utility

18Cited by
8References
12Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateMay 25, 1988
Grant dateMar 12, 1991
Priority date
Expiry dateMay 25, 2008

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T292/0966
  • WIPO fieldCivil engineering
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

Described is a bar closure for installation in one or two rectangular apertures (32, 34) in the fillet gap of sheet metal cabinet doors, which consists of a lock (16) with a lock nut (64) carrying a pinion (62) and held rotatably in a lock nut and bar bearing (60), which can be rotated by an actuating device led through the door panel (12) to the outside such as handle, pivot lever, socket wrench or the like; further, at least one bar (18) extending parallel to the door edge, in the fillet gap (10), which has a denticulation or perforation (66) to engage the pinion (62) in the region of the lock (16) and is displacably supported in this region and at least on one site outside the lock (16) on the door panel (12), as well as locking devices attached on the door frames respectively on the bar, which upon displacement of the bar engage each other. The bar (or the bars) as well as the lock nut and bar bearing ( 60) guiding these bars in the region of the lock (16), according to the invention, are built symmetrically or double-symmetrically, so that the bar closure can be used for right as well as for left-closing doors and the opening direction of rotation of the lock actuating device …

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