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US 2003/0201649 A1Published application
Folding door bar lock
OwnerScott E. Christenseninventor
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Abstract
A bar lock having two interconnected aluminum bars for engaging handles on folding doors, and preferably extending across all the seams in the folding doors to prevent the simultaneous outward and lateral opening motion of the doors. Clamping the horizontal door handles on folding fireplace doors bars children from opening the doors.
Claims5
A locking bar device for securing folding doors, the device comprising:
- a top bar formed of rigid elongated material having at least two spaced openings vertically through the top bar;
- a bottom bar formed of rigid elongated material having at least two mating spaced openings vertically through the bottom bar;
- at least two connecting means for interconnecting the two bars through the at least two spaced openings, the at least two spaced openings being positioned so that each of the at least two connecting means passes through a handle of the folding doors, the at least two connecting means securely attaching the bars together sandwiching the handles therebetween, the locking bar device being locked in place by the at least two connecting means through the handles.
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