US1233672A - Strike-plate for vehicle-door latches. - Google Patents

Description

R. KAIMEH. STRIKE PLATE FOR VEHICLE DO OB LATCHES."

APPLICATION m'zn MM. 19. m7.

Patented July 17, 1917.

"r p it RICHARD KAIMER, or NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

" STRIKE-PLATE FOR VEHICLE-DOOR LATCHES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 17, 1917..

Application filed March 19, 1917. Serial No. 155,788. i

. Plates for Vehicle-Door Latches; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the characters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application, and represent, in-

Figure 1 a broken face view of portions of a vehicle door, and a pillar, showing a latch applied to the door and my improved latch-bolt keeper mounted in the pillar.

Fig. 2 a broken transverse sectional view of the same.

Fig. 3 a face view of the keeper detached.

This invention relates to an improvement in keepers or strike plates for vehicle door latches, particularly for automobile doors where it is desirable to provide means to prevent rattling. The object of the invention is to provide a keeper with a. dog arranged to engage with the latch bolt and so as to crowd the door to the closed position; and the invention consists in the construction hereinafter described and particularly recited in the claim.

Tn c rrying out my invention, I employ a strike plate 5 having an inclinedface 6 over which the latch bolt 7 of a latch of any approved construction may. ride as the door 8 is turned to the closed position against the flange 9 of the pillar 10. The latch may be of any approved construction including a spring 11 which tends to throw the latch bolt 7 outward. The keeper is formed with KAIMER,

having different forms of 'latch bolts.

a recess 12 in which a dog 13 is mounted upon a vertically arranged pivot pin 14. This dog includes a bearing-finger 15 and a pushing finger 16, the space between these fingers forming a clearance for the nose of the latch bolt 7. A spring 17 will be pro- Vided normally turning the dog into the closed position indicated by broken lines in Fig; 2 of the drawings so that as the door closes the nose of the latch bolt 7 may enter between the fingers 15 and 16 of the dog. As the door closes the nose of the latch bolt springs in between the fingers 15 and 16 of the dog and the force of the latch spring 11 pushes against the finger l5 and turns the dog so that the pushing-finger 16 crowds the latch bolt 7, and hence the door 8, against the flange 9 of the pillar 10 and the power of this pushing action is the power of the spring 11. Thus the spring 11 not only tends to throw the latch bolt forward, but also is utilized to crowd the door into closed position and prevent rattling. With this invention it is only necessary to substitute one dog for another with varying forms of fingers, to adapt the keeper to latches I claim The combination with a vehicle door latch including a latch-bolt and a spring for normally projecting the latch bolt, of a keeper provided with a pivotal dog formed with two fingers between which the latch-bolt extends, and whereby under the action of the latch-bolt, the dog is turned to crowd.

the latch-bolt to the closed position.

In testimony whereof, I have slgned this specification in the presence-of two subscribing witnesses.

I RICHARD KAIMER. Witnesses:

SEYM'OUR M. BRADLEY, CHAs. W. HUGENDUBEL.

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