Abstract:
A latch assembly with an anti-picking function includes a bracket mounted in a door and located at a top or bottom end of the door. A movable member is slideably received in the bracket. A lever is pivotably mounted in the bracket. A positioning member includes a first pivotal portion pivotably connected to the movable member. The positioning member and the movable member can move jointly. The positioning member further includes a second pivotal portion pivotably connected to the lever. When the lever pivots, the positioning member pivots and actuates the movable member to move, causing movement of a latch between a latching position and an unlatching position. When the latch is in the latching position, a lug of the positioning member abuts against the movable member to prevent the latch from moving from the latching position to the unlatching position by picking.
Abstract:
A push plate assembly (10) that may be used for driving a bolting mechanism is disclosed. The push plate assembly (10) may be included as part of a push pad assembly or panic bar assembly, such as may be fitted to single or multipoint bolt mechanisms, for example, those fitted to emergency exit doors. The push plate assembly comprises a housing (32), a push plate (36), a slide plate (45) and a drive cam (55). The drive cam (55) is arranged to rotate within the housing so as to rotationally drive a bolt mechanism.
Abstract:
An anti-panic door opening device for actuating a door lock on a door. The device includes a handle bar having a length and two ends; two universal supports mountable on the door, each universal support having a bracket and a lock cover portion for receiving a portion of a door lock mounted in the door; and two articulated extensions. The articulated extensions are attached to the ends of the handle bar and are pivotally attached the respective brackets so that the handle bar and the articulated extensions are pivotally supported over a width of the door.
Abstract:
A door with an integrated exit device has an operational bar which at least partially extends across the door. The operational bar is located within a recess in the face of the door. The operational bar has at least one arm that extends into a channel, which is formed in cooperation with the recess. The door has a locking channel which extends along the vertical edge of the door. The locking channel is coupled to a vertical stile that is fixedly located on the vertical edge of the door. The locking channel and the vertical stile are pivotally coupled by a clip. A blocking member is located within the vertical stile. The operational bar has an actuator arm located within the door and within the vertical stile. As the operational bar is pushed inward, actuator arm pushes blocking member to an open position which also allows locking channel to pivot to an open position. If access is required from both sides of the door, a handle may be located outside of the door and coupled to the operational bar by a connection arm. The connection arm moves the operational bar in cooperation with movement of the handle.
Abstract:
A latch assembly for use with a panic exit device, particularly a top latch having a U-shape which engages a stem portion of a T-shaped receiving lug mounted overhead to a top member of the door frame. The U-shaped top latch is pivotably mounted to the active stile of the door. The latch assembly causes the U-shaped latch to pivot upward to capture the stationary T-shaped receiving lug, or pivot downwardly to disengage from the T-shaped receiving lug. The latch member is in sliding and abutting engagement with a latch cam which pivots in one direction to retain the latch member in an upward orientation to capture the T-shaped receiving lug, and pivots in an opposite direction to allow the latch member to pivot downwardly upon opening pressure on the door and actuation of the panic exit device, to release the latch member from the receiving lug. The latch cam is activated by movement of a panic bar of a panic exit device mounted onto the door, and the latch cam, once moved to disengage the latch member from the receiving lug, holds the latch member in a condition for automatic re-engagement with the receiving lug once the door re-closes.
Abstract:
Safety-drum antipanic lock comprising a bolt (3, 103), an actuating rod pivotingly connected to the door, at each of its ends, by means of a unit formed by a housing (1, 101) fixed onto said door and a lever (2, 102) pivotingly mounted, in said housing (1, 101), at least one lever (2, 102) being an actuating lever cooperating with components of its housing (1, 101) to actuate the bolt (3, 103). The housing (1, 101) of the actuating lever (2, 102) is associated with at least a safety-drum (19, 20; 120) driving a bit (21, 23; 151) co-operating with actuating means for said housing to actuate the bolt (3, 103). Said housing (1, 101) of the actuating lever (2, 102) comprises at least two different operating means (14, 15a, 15b; 114) capable of separately co-operating each with a drum (19, 20; 120) to actuate said bolt (3, 103).
Abstract:
A locking and unlocking device for opening an emergency exit in which an anti-panic bar is supported, at its ends, by two arms rotating in housings fastened by their bottoms on the leaf of the exit, on each side of the bar, one of the housings including the actual lock and the other including a horizontal finger extension from a lever of the anti-panic bar on the other side of the axis of rotation of the lever toward the bottom of the housing, a slide supported on the finger and vertically movable, whose front upper edge has the shape of a step, the side of the step being almost vertical and the base of the step slightly inclined forward, a transverse rod movable between a rear position where it abuts against the side of the step, slightly above its base, when the slide is in a low position, and a forward position where it is in front of the slide, a return device being provided for the rod in the forward position, the transverse rod being carried by the lower arms of lateral small rods rotating about a transverse axle situated above the transverse rod in or immediately in front of the same vertical plane, when it is in the rear position, the small rods comprising lateral arms directed toward the rear, a two-pronged fork whose base is connected to the armature of a solenoid fastened in the housing, the free ends of the two prongs working together with the lateral arms of the small rods to bring the armature into a rear position against the side of the step when the solenoid is energized, and a part of the slide clamping the operated state of microcontacts when the slide leaves its low position.
Abstract:
Apparatus for securing an emergency exit door includes a bolt for engaging a keeper, a dogging mechanism for dogging the bolt and a fluid throttling device disposed between the bolt and dogging mechanism. An electrical timer is connected to the dogging mechanism by a solenoid and starts to count upon an attempt to open the door. After a predetermined time interval has run, the electrical timer releases the dogging mechanism and allows the door to open. If the electrical timer fails to release the dogging mechanism, the door will still open if pushed due to operation of the fluid throttling device, which slowly shortens under pressure, allowing the bolt to clear the keeper.In order to readily align the keeper with the bolt, the keeper is loosely mounted and guided into alignment with the bolt by a bevelled guide. Upon being latched by the bolt, the keeper is held rigidly between the guide and the bolt.
Abstract:
An entrance for buildings comprises first and second doors mounted in a common door frame, each door including a lock stile positioned adjacent a lock stile of the other door when the doors are closed. A panic device is mounted on at least one of the doors for emergency opening thereof and a retractable latch is extended between the stiles of the doors when closed for minimizing or eliminating the unauthorized forced separation of the stiles into a position wherein the panic device can be actuated with an implement inserted from outside the entrance to release and open the door. Mechanism is included for interconnecting the latch and the panic device for retraction of the latch when the panic device is actuated for opening the door, thus providing both a safe and a secure entrance system.
Abstract:
A door exit device has a pivotal panic bar that is depressable from a raised position to unlatch a door. A lock assembly for the device comprises a pivotal member movable between an engaged position with the panic bar to hold it in its raised position and a disengaged position to permit pivotal depression of the panic bar and opening of the door. The member is mounted on the door and a locking feature is provided to hold the member in at least one of its engaged and disengaged positions. In two described embodiments of this invention, the member comprises an arm pivotally mounted for vertical movements to engage a cross-bar of the panic bar, in a third embodiment an arm pivots horizontally to engage a lever arm of the panic bar, and in a fourth embodiment the pivotal member comprises an extended end of a torsion spring adapted to engage and hold the panic bar in its raised position.