US 11,873,660 B2
Electric door strike keeper
Joshua T. Peabody, Phoenix, AZ (US); and Dominik Scheffler, Phoenix, AZ (US)
Assigned to Hanchett Entry Systems, Inc., Phoenix, AZ (US)
Filed by Hanchett Entry Systems, Inc., Phoenix, AZ (US)
Filed on Dec. 10, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/117,250.
Application 17/117,250 is a continuation of application No. 15/948,616, filed on Apr. 9, 2018, granted, now 11,268,298.
Application 15/948,616 is a continuation of application No. 13/919,517, granted, now 9,945,153, issued on Apr. 17, 2018, previously published as PCT/US2011/065198, filed on Dec. 15, 2011.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/423,657, filed on Dec. 16, 2010.
Prior Publication US 2021/0087849 A1, Mar. 25, 2021
Int. Cl. E05B 15/02 (2006.01); E05B 47/00 (2006.01); E05B 47/06 (2006.01)
CPC E05B 15/022 (2013.01) [E05B 47/0047 (2013.01); E05B 47/0004 (2013.01); E05B 47/0046 (2013.01); E05B 47/0696 (2013.01); Y10T 292/68 (2015.04); Y10T 292/696 (2015.04); Y10T 292/699 (2015.04); Y10T 292/702 (2015.04); Y10T 292/705 (2015.04)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An actuator-controlled electric strike for operating in conjunction with a spring latch of a lockset, wherein said lockset includes said spring latch and a dead latch, wherein said spring latch has an engaged position and a release position, and wherein said spring latch includes a tip having a lateral edge, said electric strike comprising:
a housing having an entry chamber defined therein; and
a spring latch keeper disposed in said entry chamber for movement between a keeper locked position and a keeper unlocked position, wherein said spring latch keeper is rotatable about a keeper axis of rotation, and wherein said spring latch keeper includes:
a keeper face configured for abutting contact with said spring latch when said spring latch is disposed in said entry chamber and said spring latch is in said engaged position, wherein said keeper face is contactable by said tip of said spring latch,
a second surface recessed from said keeper face, and
a spring latch contact ridge positioned between said keeper face and said second surface,
wherein said spring latch contact ridge is disposed at a non-perpendicular angle from said keeper axis of rotation,
wherein said spring latch contact ridge is contactable by a contact point along said lateral edge of said tip of said spring latch as said spring latch keeper moves between said keeper locked position and said keeper unlocked position, and
wherein said contact point changes along said lateral edge of said tip of said spring latch as said spring latch exits said entry chamber.