Gate closure latch
OwnerChristopher Bieganskiinventor
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Abstract
A manually operated latch for a gate closure is disclosed herein having a resilient helical coil with extended end portions secured to the ends of a pair of hand grips. The end portions are disposed to extend at an angle with respect to each other so that the normal bias of the coil forcibly urges the hand grips away from each other. A keeper loosely secured between the end portions holds the hand grips from separating beyond a predetermined set position and permits yieldable closing or drawing of the hand grips together against the expanding bias of the coil. A pair of latch members are rigidly carried on the end portions and extend towards each other in a normally biased condition to draw overlapping latch elements together.
Claims6
A manual latch for a gate closure comprising the combination of:
- a resilient means having a pair of end portions outwardly extending from a central coil in diverging relationship normally biased to expand away from each other;
- a pair of latch members carried on said end portions projecting beyond said central coil in opposite direction from said end portions so as to be normally biased towards each other;
- said latch members terminating in cantilevered latch elements that overlap when in said normally biased position;
- a hand grip secured to each of said resilient means end portions adapted to be squeezed against said normally biased position to separate said overlapped latch elements;
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- a keeper interconnecting said resilient means end portions to limit biased divergence thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.