Concealed rod or cable surface latching exit device
AssigneeAdams Rite Manufacturing Co.
InventorsRory M. Riley, Masoud S. Miresmaili
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Abstract
A door latching structure for operatively interconnecting an upper latching structure carried by a door and a lower actuator structure carried by the door, the upper latching structure located outside the door, and comprising a longitudinally elongated link sized for reception within the door and to extend into proximity to the latching structure, and to the actuator structure, the link operatively connected to the actuator structure; and a laterally extending link attached to an upper end portion of the longitudinally elongated link, the laterally extending link connectible to the latching structure to transfer longitudinal movement of the longitudinal link effected by the actuator structure to the latching structure, for operating same.
Claims20
In combination with a door, door latching structure including an upper latching structure carried by the door and a lower actuator means carried by the door, said upper latching structure located outside the door, said latching structure further comprising,
- a) a vertically elongated passage concealed within the door and a longitudinally elongated link located within said door passage and extending into proximity to said latching structure, and to said actuator means, said link operatively connected to said actuator means,
- b) and a laterally extending link attached to an upper end portion of said longitudinally elongated link, for bodily movement therewith, said laterally extending link extending laterally of the door from the interior of said door passage to the exterior thereof via a side port in the door for connection to said latching structure to transfer longitudinal movement of the longitudinal link effected by said actuator means to said latching structure, for operating same said latching structure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.