Median housing for multipoint antipanic lock and antipanic lock fitted with such a housing

An antipanic locking device for a door having an interior and an exterior side and being of either the left-hand or right-hand opening type comprising a housing mountable on the interior side of the door, an actuating lever being pivotally mounted on spindle means carried by said housing so as to extend parallel to the plane of the door and movable to actuate said locking device to thereby drive in opposite directions two rods;

• one each located on an opposite side of said housing from the other rod, each rod having an axis extending orthogonal to said spindle means and an end remote from said housing with each end having a bolt, said actuating lever having a thrust member adjacent one end thereof and projecting transversely therefrom, a thrust means having a portion rotatably carried on said housing, said thrust means including a pair of abutment means, one of said abutment means being engageable by said thrust member upon actuation of said lever in one direction about said spindle means corresponding to the door opening to the right and the other of said abutment means being engageable by said thrust member upon actuation of said lever in a direction opposite to said one direction corresponding to the door opening to the left, said locking device including an actuation mechanism for moving said rods from a projecting to a withdrawn position with said actuation mechanism being driven by movement of said thrust means, said actuating lever being shiftable from engagement with one of said abutment means to the other abutment means without disassembly of said housing.