Abstract: An improved door latch bolt assembly comprising a cylindrical casing having a front end, a back end and an external surface, and at least one tab extending radially outward from the front end of the cylindrical casing; a bolt; a bolt operating mechanism fixed to the cylindrical casing; and a faceplate having a front side, a back side, and a bolt hole adapted to receive the bolt in a sliding relationship; and a cylindrical sleeve comprising two semi-circular halves joined together, the cylindrical sleeve turnably received at the front end on the external surface of the cylindrical casing and slidably joined to the faceplate to permit the cylindrical casing and the faceplate to turn up to about ten degrees in either direction within the sleeve.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 22, 2006
Date of Patent:
October 2, 2007
Assignee:
Hampton Products International Corporation
Abstract: A conventional carabiner (11) is molded directly into a plastic base (10), with the pivoted end of a closure gate (23) being toward the base. The base may also restrain a bungee cord (9) by having the end thereof and a wire crimp (15) molded into the base, or the base may have a bungee cord passageway (40) with cleat (41), into which the bungee cord may be pulled so as to lock the base in a desired position along the bungee cord.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 7, 2005
Date of Patent:
June 12, 2007
Assignees:
Keeper Corporation, Hampton Products International Corporation
Inventors:
Ricky W. Selby, Hayward Kendall Kelley, III, Robert Lee Gast, Donald Thomas, Raymond N. Hunt
Abstract: An improved padlock having a shackle retainer assembly that can be removed without removal of the padlock key locking assembly and/or convertible from a key retaining to a key nonretaining lock, or vice versa, by removal or insertion of a pin on the driver end of the key cylinder assembly.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 15, 2004
Date of Patent:
May 2, 2006
Assignee:
Hampton Products International Corporation
Inventors:
Robert Lee Gast, John Wade Landrum, Robert A. Wilkosz, Loring M. Johnson
Abstract: An improved padlock having a shackle retainer assembly that can be removed without removal of the padlock key locking assembly and/or convertible from a key retaining to a key nonretaining lock, or vice versa, by removal or insertion of a pin on the driver end of the key cylinder assembly.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 20, 2002
Date of Patent:
July 27, 2004
Assignee:
Hampton Products International Corporation
Inventors:
Robert Lee Gast, John Wade Landrum, Robert A. Wilkosz, Loring M. Johnson