Integrated door lock for an aircraft galley container
AssigneeB/E Aerospace, Inc.
InventorFrederik Adrian Stephan Panjer
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Abstract
There is provided herein an aircraft galley container including a door, a latch mechanism, and a lock. The latch mechanism is positionable in a latched position preventing opening of the door and an unlatched position permitting opening of the door. The latch mechanism includes a handle, a pair of rods and a rotatable plate. The rotatable plate is coupled to the handle and configured to be rotated by the handle and to convert rotational movement of the handle to linear movement of the pair of rods to place the latch mechanism in the latched and unlatched positions. The lock is configured to selectively prevent the rotatable plate from rotation to maintain the latch mechanism in the latched position.
Claims12
An aircraft galley container comprising:
- a door;
- a latch mechanism, wherein the latch mechanism is positionable in a latched position preventing opening of the door and an unlatched position permitting opening of the door, wherein the latch mechanism includes:
- a handle;
- a pair of rods;
- and
- a rotatable plate coupled to the handle and configured to be rotated by the handle and to convert rotational movement of the handle to linear movement of the pair of rods to place the latch mechanism in the latched and unlatched positions;
- and
- a lock configured to selectively prevent the rotatable plate from rotation to maintain the latch mechanism in the latched position,
- wherein the lock includes a rotatable locking member rotatable between a locking position and an open position, and
- wherein the rotatable plate includes a recess, wherein the rotatable locking member is disposed within the recess when in the locking position and is displaced from the recess when in the open position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.