Hook latch for aircraft nacelle cowls
AssigneeLisi Aerospace
InventorLAURENT RENARD
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Abstract
A latch (22) includes a bracket (54) able to be attached to a first cowl; a hooking arm (58) comprising a hook (94) able to cooperate with a keeper (36) attached to a second cowl; a first handle (60) and a second handle (64) rotatable relative to the bracket, the first and second handles being configured so that the second handle (64) in a closed configuration blocks the first handle (60) in a closed configuration. In the closed configuration of the second handle (64), a shape of the second handle is fitted in a counter-shape (106) of the first handle (60) so as to block the first handle (60) in the closed configuration.
Claims11
Latch for assembling a first and a second nacelle cowl, said latch comprising:
- A bracket able to be attached to the first cowl;
- A hooking arm comprising a hook able to cooperate with a keeper attached to the second cowl;
- A first handle rotatable relative to the bracket, between a first open configuration and a first closed configuration;
- A second handle rotatable relative to the bracket, between a second open configuration and a second closed configuration,
- the first and second handles being configured so that, in the second closed configuration, the second handle blocks the first handle in the first closed configuration,
- the latch being characterized in that, in the second closed configuration of the second handle, a shape of the second handle is fitted in a complementary shape of the first handle so as to block the first handle in the first closed configuration.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.