Abstract: Vehicle assemblies are provided that include movable door assemblies. Examples of vehicle assemblies with movable door assemblies include charge port housing assemblies and fuel fill housing assemblies. An exemplary vehicle assembly may include an override retainer. The override retainer may include a flexible flap or clip that is configured to deflect or otherwise distort to release a latching assembly from the door assembly when a manual override force is applied to the door assembly.

Abstract: In one aspect of the present disclosure, a vehicle wheel is disclosed that includes a cover and a backbone. The cover includes recessed portions and non-recessed portions defining inner surfaces that are spaced about a periphery of the cover, and the backbone defines at least one first support that is configured and positioned for contact with the inner surfaces defined by the recessed portions and at least one second support that is configured and positioned for contact with the inner surfaces defined by the non-recessed portions.

Abstract: Retainers for use within an astragal assembly as described. The astragal assembly has an astragal body with a major axis. The astragal assembly is for use in a double door entryway unit. The retainers include a retention portion configured to engage an entryway component and a mounting portion configured for placement onto the astragal body in a direction normal to the major axis. The retention portion is either a void for receiving at least one of a latch and a deadbolt, or the retention portion is a bolt pin configured to engage an entryway frame.

Abstract: A sealing member sealing a gap between one member and another member includes a mounting portion that is mounted on the one member and an extension portion that extends from a mounting portion side to another member side and contacts with the other member. In the sealing member, the extension portion includes an assist portion that is formed in one end toward the other member side and assists spring-up of the extension portion in accordance with sliding of the other member or the one member.

Abstract: A clamshell container has a lid connected to a base by an integral hinge. The lid has a perimeter projecting member which engages with a peripheral base sealing wall in a closed configuration so that it is difficult for a user to open the container without tearing the lid along a weakened region of material along the hinge. To aid in resisting undetectable tampering, the container has a post which projects from the side wall and extends less than the length of the side wall within the container. The post has an engaging wall which faces towards a base sealing wall and which is spaced from the sealing wall to define a gap which receives the closed lid's projecting member. Distortion of the closed container which tends to urge the lid projecting member away from the base sealing wall engages it with the post engaging wall to resist tampering.

Abstract: A accessory securing mechanism includes a housing member, a cover member, and an engaging member. The housing member defines a cutout and forms a pole unit protruding from the bottom of the cutout. The engaging member includes an elastic washer, the washer is sleeved into the pole unit.

Abstract: The invention concerns a device (1) for spacing and temporarily locking into a pseudo-closed position an opening element (6) on a fixed element (3) of a motor vehicle body, comprising a fixing plate (2) for anchoring the device in the fixed element and a stop element (4) adapted to serve as support for the opening element and having one first end (11) attached to the fixed plate. The invention is characterized in that the stop element has an intermediate part (12) stretching in a direction substantially perpendicular to the fixing plate and terminated by a second end (13) curved towards the fixing plate (2), the intermediate part and the second end being configured so as to be accommodated between the fixed element and the opening element in the pseudo-closed position and to provide a space for receiving a rim (6b) thereof.

Abstract: A power boat helmsman's station chair having a two-section seat bottom articulated by a pivotal hinge framework so that the front section of the seat can be folded up from its normal position as a horizontal extension of the rear section of the seat bottom to a position raised and disposed over the rear section. Port and starboard hinge subassemblies include a L-shape angle corner bracket that is fastened to both the bottom and the side boards of the rear seat section framework, thereby reinforcing the same, and that pivotally carries one end of an associated hinge arm fastened at its other end to the framework of the seat bottom front section. A one piece plastic member of generally inverted V-shaped configuration has one arm fixed to the upright flange of the comer bracket with the other arm disposed for spring latching, camming engagement with a cam follower edge surface of the pivot end of the hinge arm.

Abstract: A replaceable toilet tank cover is provided having a base member with a top surface and a bottom surface. A lip is defined around the sides of the cover. At least two post members are disposed on the bottom surface and are set off from the lip a predetermined distance so that a tank wall of the toilet tank can fit between the post members and the lip. A resilient retaining device is disposed on the bottom surface adjacent from and set off from the lip. The retaining device has at least two spring arms resiliently movable in a plane generally parallel to the bottom surface for resiliently pressing against the inside surface of the toilet tank wall thereby clamping the tank wall between the lip and the spring arms.

Abstract: A storage locker is shown having a frame supporting a hinged door. A latch plate is fixed to the inner frame for latching the door and enabling it to be locked. The latch plate includes a security finger which is notched, and which engages a rim of the door when the door is closed. The security finger serves to hold the door closed during conventional methods of unauthorized entry. The latch plate also includes a pair of stiffening legs which make it more difficult to bend, thus, making unauthorized entry more difficult. The latch plate also includes a portion for supporting a padlock tab. The portion supporting the padlock tab is yieldable such that force applied to the padlock tab will bend the support portion without allowing the more critical latch plate to bend.

Abstract: A remotely controlled door lock for a dog cage is provided. The door lock includes a pair of solenoids connected to a latch bolt, and a main controller which receives a radio frequency control signal from a remote radio transmitter. The main controller decodes the signal and sends it to one of the solenoids to retract the latch bolt from engagement with the cage door, or extend it into engagement therewith.

Abstract: A door latch formed of transparent elastic plastic is disclosed. The latch has an elastic plastic band with a base segment adapted for mounting on a door and a catch segment flexibly attached to the base segment and extending angularly outward therefrom to project transversely beyond the base segment. The band also has a striker segment flexibly attached to the catch segment and extending angularly outward therefrom and transversely to a position outlying the base segment, and also a return portion flexibly attaching the striker segment to the base segment. The band is adapted to flexibly deform when pressed against a door jamb to selectively engage the jamb. The latch may also have a stiffening rib of plastic material rigidly affixed to the base segment within the band to act to restrict the deflection of the band when the band is pushed against a door jamb. This latch is useful as a transparent latch for a transparent display case.

Abstract: This invention relates to an improved door catch and in particular to one utilizing an integrally formed door catch to catch a door knob by pushing a door backward, the knob of the door will push the elastic door catch upward and when the knob has passed through the hook of the catch and the door catch will, because of its elastic force, return to its original position and hook the knob thus the door is held at a fixed place.

Abstract: One-piece latches or door-retenting devices of elastomeric material of specified parameters, are constructed for disposition in the surface of a door or other supporting panel so that at least one lip projects outwardly from the edge or surface in elastically deformable relation to engage a striker bar or surface. A first type includes and elongated lip projecting or depending from one edge, the inner surface of the lip forming a slot which just accommodates the striker bar upon closure of the latch, the adjacent outer surface of the lip projecting in angular relation to the slot providing resilient latching action against the striker bar when the latch is opened or closed. Latch shapes of this type include "D" shape, "C" shape, round, square, polygonal and line configurations. A second type comprises a bellows-like latching member closed at one end with a protuberance in the form of an elastomeric bulb which is constructed to be elastically deformed by the striker bar or latching surface.

Abstract: A locking device includes a striker and a latch. The striker projects from the back side of an openable wall which is hinged on a housing. The latch is secured to the edge of an opening of the housing so that it faces the striker for engaging with and holding the striker in a snap-engaged state when the openable wall is closed. The latch is rotatably mounted in the housing so that the rotation thereof follows the direction of insertion of the striker into the latch.

Abstract: This invention relates to a device for retaining a door in open position, comprising two toothed elements of resilient material, positively connected to the door post and the door leaf, respectively, and adapted to mesh with one another during the opening of the door leaf so as to retain the same in open position at a desired opening angle.

Abstract: The invention is a liquid dispenser including a container for retaining a liquid to be dispensed and comprising a mounting plate portion having a downwardly opening slot defined by a slot edge, a front surface bounding the slot, and a rear surface for juxtaposition a support surface; and a bracket comprising a body portion with a back surface for engaging the support surface, a wall bordering the body portion and extending transversely to the support surface, and a skirt projecting from the wall and spaced from and substantially parallel to the support surface. The wall engages the slot edge so as to provide vertical support for the container and the skirt and the support surface straddle and engage the front surface and the rear surface plate portion, respectively, so as to provide horizontal support for the container.

Abstract: A shroud top vent grille is releasably retained or attached to the front fenders of a vehicle by a retainer means. The retainer means comprises a pair of headed weld studs welded to an inner wall of the fender a predetermined distance below its upper external surface and a one piece plastic retainer member which can be readily secured to the weld studs and which is adapted to releasably retain the shroud top vent grille in place and so that it is flush with the adjacent external fender while preventing rattling.

Abstract: The invention relates to fasteners for two parts of a body which are wholly contained within the body and not visible when the two parts are joined.The fastener comprises a resilient member secured inside the first part of the body projecting internally of the body and an orifice formed inside the second part of the body. The resilient member is shaped to enter the orifice and verge the two parts together and to permit separation of the two parts by a relative pivoting movement adjacent to the abutting joint between the parts whereby the resilient member is retracted from the orifice.

Abstract: A hold-open mechanism is disclosed which is particularly suitable for use on a self-closing door assembly for a refrigerated display cabinet. The hold-open mechanism includes a stop plate carried by the hinged door, and a hold-open spring mounted on the door frame which supports the door. In one embodiment, the hold-open spring is selectively positionable so as to accommodate normal swinging movement of the door in one position, and is adapted to releasably engage and retain the stop plate on the door in a second position so that the door is maintained opened. In another embodiment, the hold-open mechanism automatically operates to releasably retain the door in its fully opened position whenever the door is moved to that position.

Abstract: A catch member adapted to be secured to the end of a grille member for securing same to a window parallel to the inner surface thereof. The window sash presents inwardly facing surfaces which have longitudinally extending shallow grooves forming seats of the catch members. The catch members comprise a stem and a head portion integrally formed therewith. The head portion has a base from whose lower surface the stem depends, and an arcuate arm flexibly secured to the base along one edge thereof. The arcuate arm overlies the base and its major portion is spaced apart from the upper surface of the base whereby it can yield when the window grille is being fitted to or removed from the window. The arcuate arm is curved in one direction and flat in the opposite direction.

Abstract: The safety closure latch includes a stop member depending from the upper wall of the drawer opening. The stop member is generally rectangular and has a pair of vertically aligned rectangular openings. The latch member is mounted on the inner face of the front vertical wall of the drawer adjacent the top. The latch member comprises a mounting base and a pair of vertically spaced parallel arms extending horizontally from the base into the drawer. Each arm terminates in a hooked end having a shoulder, the hook on the upper arm extending upwardly and the hook on the lower arm extending downwardly. The arms are so aligned that when the drawer is closed, the arms will slide into the aligned openings of the stop member, the hook portion on the upper arm snapping by the upper edge of the upper opening, and the hook portion of the lower arm snapping by the lower edge of the lower opening.

Abstract: A device for locking the lid of a cassette tape receiving compartment of a cassette tape recorder including a lock member projecting from a portion of the lid and a generally U-shaped lock spring provided at one end of one leg thereof with a first projection engaging the lock member of the lid during opening and closing thereof. A second projection on the one leg of the lock spring engages against a ledge formed in the recorder casing in order to modify the spring force applied by the lock spring against the lid.

Abstract: The invention relates to a combination door stop and catch in the form of a molded unit adapted for mounting to the wall surface behind a door in its open position, and adapted, not only to function as a stop for the door before the knob of the door can engage such wall, but to perform the additional function of a catch, to preclude self closing of the door. The catch offers limited though essential restraint for this purpose, but enables automatic release of the door in response to application of force to the door in the direction of closing.

Abstract: A latch assembly for releasably securing a door in closing relation to an open end of a chamber. The latch assembly includes two latching members, one of which is mounted adjacent the open end of the chamber and the other is mounted on the door such that it moves in a plane as the door is moved between its open and closed positions. The one member has a surface which is inclined in two directions to the aforementioned plane such that should a predetermined force be exerted upon the door in an effort to move it from its closed position without actuating the latch assembly release, the latching member mounted on the door will cam the inclined surface so as to move it in a plane which defines an angle with the aforementioned plane thereby unlatching the assembly before any damage is caused to the assembly or door.

Abstract: A one-piece plastic latch receptacle mounted in an apertured panel and adapted to accept a shouldered strike. The latch includes a resilient oval tubular portion supported in spaced independently flexible relation to both the head and mounting legs and carries at least one shouldered rib positioned along each major dimension of the oval for engagement of the strike at a plurality of positions.