Paddle handle lock bolt

A paddle handle lock construction including, a pan member constituting a paddle handle frame pan, a spring-loaded bolt mounted on the outer bottom of the frame pan for sliding movement along the outer bottom past a first side of the frame pan, a pivot shaft extending between opposed second and third sides of the frame pan near and parallel to said first side of the frame pan, a paddle handle having a front wall normally partially covering the pan interior and top and bottom flanges extending interiorly of the pan adjacent said opposed second and third sides thereof, each of said flanges being pivotally received on the pivot shaft, a bellcrank retractor pivotally received on the pivot shaft between said paddle handle flanges and having one arm extending through the bottom of the frame pan and drivingly engageable with the bolt, and a second arm drivingly engageable and disengageable by a lug carried by a cylinder lock which itself is carried by and bodily moves with the paddle handle and projects from the interior side thereof, the lug being disengaged from the second arm by rotation of the cylinder lock to lock position and engaged by rotation of the cylinder lock to unlock position, the paddle handle, bellcrank, and sliding bolt comprising a three-element bolt-retraction train in which the first element of the train and the central element of the train, i.e., the paddle handle and the bellcrank, are coupled and uncoupled by said engagement and disengagement of said second arm and said lug to thereby govern actuation of the third element of the train, i.e., the bolt.