Slam latch
CA 2060571 C · Owner: Schlack, Richard E. · Inventors: Schlack, Richard E.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A slam latch for a sliding or hinged cabinet door has a body formed from side and rear walls from which extends a flexible lower plate having a catch. The latch mounts in an aperture positioned so that the flexible lower plate extends beyond the edge of the door and over the edge of an adjacent panel to secure the two together.
Read the whole patent
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.
Why it's free to use
- Filed February 3, 1992 and granted September 16, 1997. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 3, 2012.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by February 3, 2014.
- We check Canadian rights only. A patent in its family in another country could still be in force: check its family on Google Patents.
Timeline
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Sources & verification
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