Door lock mechanism
CA 1184774 A · Owner: Best Lock Corporation · Inventors: Best, Walter E.; Foshee, William R.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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A doorknob has a neck in rotational bearing engagement on a knob sleeve and has a pair of inner recesses which open inward to engage a driver lug and open axially to be engageable with the lug by axial knob movement. The sleeve has a cross slot adapted to contain a torque-releasable driver, biased outward to engage its lug in a recess, but with the lug so shaped that it will be cammed out of the recess under excess torque on the knob and hence release the knob and prevent transmission of the excess torque to the knob sleeve. Alternatively the sleeve cross, slot may contain a positive driver such as one having end lugs engaged in both recesses, or may contain no driver so that the knob is …
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
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- Granted April 2, 1985. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended April 2, 2002.
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