US 12,264,506 B2
Exit device rod adjustment
Andrew S. Geraci, Wallingford, CT (US)
Assigned to ASSA ABLOY Access and Egress Hardware Group, Inc., New Haven, CT (US)
Filed by ASSA ABLOY Access and Egress Hardware Group, Inc., New Haven, CT (US)
Filed on Sep. 17, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/478,535.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/089,616, filed on Oct. 9, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0112746 A1, Apr. 14, 2022
Int. Cl. E05B 65/10 (2006.01); E05B 53/00 (2006.01); E05B 63/20 (2006.01)
CPC E05B 65/1006 (2013.01) [E05B 53/008 (2013.01); E05B 63/20 (2013.01)] 25 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A rod coupler comprising:
a rod;
a rod receptacle configured to rotate about a first axis, wherein the rod receptacle is configured to adjustably receive the rod, in an opening, wherein a proximal end of the rod is spirally threaded, and wherein the rod receptacle includes an internal thread configured to engage with the proximal end of the rod such that when the rod receptacle is rotated, the internal thread adjusts a linear position of the rod, and wherein the rod receptacle comprises a plurality of gear teeth disposed on an end of the rod receptacle opposite the opening;
a rod adjuster rotatably coupled to the rod receptacle and configured to rotate about a second axis; and
a guide extending in a direction transverse to the rod and configured to slide along the first axis within a slot formed in a housing to constrain translational movement of the rod coupler along an axis,
wherein rotation of the rod adjuster about the second axis is configured to rotate the rod receptacle about the first axis, wherein the first axis and the second axis are transverse to one another, and wherein the first axis and the second axis intersect one another.