Exit device rod adjustment
AssigneeASSA ABLOY Access and Egress Hardware Group, Inc.
InventorAndrew S. Geraci
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Abstract
A latching device may include an actuator configured to actuate between an actuated state and an unactuated state, a first rod including a threaded end, and a first rod coupler operatively coupled to the actuator and the first rod and configured to transfer force between the actuator and the first rod. The first rod coupler may include a rod receptacle configured to rotate about a first axis and to at least partially receive and engaged the first rod. The first rod coupler may also include a rod adjuster rotatably coupled to the rod receptacle and configured to rotate about a second axis to rotate the rod receptacle about the first axis. The rotation of the rod receptacle may change the position of the first rod relative to the actuator.
Claims24
A rod coupler comprising:
- a rod receptacle configured to rotate about a first axis, wherein the rod receptacle is configured to receive a rod, and wherein the rod receptacle includes an internal thread;
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- a rod adjuster rotatably coupled to the rod receptacle and configured to rotate about a second axis, wherein rotation of the rod adjuster about the second axis is configured to rotate the rod receptacle about the first axis.
A latching device comprising:
- an actuator configured to actuate between an actuated state and an unactuated state;
- a first rod including a threaded end;
- and
- a first rod coupler operatively coupled to the actuator and the first rod, the first rod coupler configured to transfer force between the actuator and the first rod, the first rod coupler comprising:
- a rod receptacle configured to rotate about a first axis, wherein the rod receptacle is configured to at least partially receive the first rod, and wherein the rod receptacle includes an internal thread threadedly engaged with the threaded end of the first rod, and
- a rod adjuster rotatably coupled to the rod receptacle and configured to rotate about a second axis, wherein rotation of the rod adjuster about the second axis is configured to rotate the rod receptacle about the first axis.
A method of installing a latching device, the method comprising:
- rotating a rod adjuster about a rod adjuster axis in a first rotational direction to correspondingly rotate a rod receptacle about a rod receptacle axis in a second rotational direction, wherein the first rotational direction and second rotational direction are different;
- threading a threaded end of a rod into the rod receptacle when the rod receptacle is rotated in the second rotational direction;
- rotating the rod adjuster about the rod adjuster axis in a third rotational direction to correspondingly rotate the rod receptacle about the rod receptacle axis in a fourth rotational direction, wherein the third rotational direction and fourth rotational direction are different;
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- unthreading the threaded end of the rod from the rod receptacle when the rod receptacle is rotated in the fourth rotational direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.