Lock Assembly for a Door of a Distribution Box
AssigneeAsmith Manufacturing Company
InventorChing-Hua Chiang
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Abstract
A lock assembly includes a lock, a pre-loadable mount and an adjusting element. The lock includes a shell formed with two bores and a hole. The pre-loadable mount includes a yoke, two bent rods extending from the yoke, and two pivots respectively extending from the bent rods, wherein the pivots are respectively inserted in the bores. The adjusting element includes a first section inserted in the hole and a second section placed against the yoke so that the bent rods are located against a rear face of the door while a portion of the shell is placed against a front face of the door.
Claims4
A lock assembly comprising:
- a lock comprising a shell formed with two bores and a hole;
- a pre-loadable mount comprising:
- a yoke;
- two bent rods, each bent rod comprising a first rectilinear section transversely extending from the yoke, a second rectilinear section, and an angle formed between the first rectilinear section and the second rectilinear section;
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- two pivots respectively extending from the bent rods,
- wherein the pivots are respectively inserted in the bores, wherein the yoke extends in a first plane, wherein the first rectilinear sections of the bent rods extend in a second plane not in parallel to the first plane, wherein each of the bent rods extends in a plane not in parallel to the first and second planes;
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- an adjusting element comprising a first section inserted in the hole and a second section placed against the yoke so that the angles of the bent rods are located against a rear face of a door while a portion of the shell is placed against a front face of the door, wherein the angles of the bent rods are tighter against the rear face of the door as the first section of the adjusting element is the tighter in the hole.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.