Door closure
AssigneeRoyal Wolf Trading Australia Pty Limited
InventorsSteven Brown, Brendon Greatrex, Ben Dupres
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Abstract
Disclosed is a closure for a door of a shipping container. The closure includes a housing, an outside handle pivotally mounted relative to the housing, an inside handle pivotally mounted relative to the housing, and a catch connected to the inside handle. The closure is configured so that movement of the inside handle between a first position and a second position causes corresponding movement of the catch. A locking mechanism can releasably fix the inside handle relative to the outside handle, such that when in a locked position rotation of the outside handle causes corresponding rotation of the inside handle and when in an unlocked position the inside handle can be rotated independently of the outside handle.
Claims19
A closure for a door of a shipping container, comprising:
- a housing;
- an outside handle pivotally mounted relative to the housing;
- an inside handle pivotally mounted relative to the housing;
- a catch connected to the inside handle such that movement of the inside handle between a first position and a second position causes corresponding movement of the catch;
- an upper link rod connected to an upper strike rod and a lower link rod connected to a lower strike rod, each of the link rods pivotally connected to the inside handle, wherein when the inside handle is in the first position the catch extends beyond an edge of a door to which it is mounted, the upper strike rod extends beyond an upper edge of the door, and the lower strike rod extends beyond a lower edge of the door, and when the inside handle is in the second position, each of the catch, upper strike rod and lower strike rod are retracted so that they do not extend beyond the respective edges of the door;
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- a locking mechanism configured to releasably fix the inside handle relative to the outside handle,
- wherein when the locking mechanism is in a locked position rotation of the outside handle causes corresponding rotation of the inside handle, and
- wherein when the locking mechanism is in an unlocked position the inside handle can be rotated independently of the outside handle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.