US 12,448,818 B1
Squeeze and slide to open gate latch
Mark A. Flannery, Longboat Key, FL (US); and Brian G. Linehan, Saint Paul, MN (US)
Assigned to Carlson Pet Products, Inc., Longboat Key, FL (US)
Filed by Carlson Pet Products, Inc., Longboat Key, FL (US)
Filed on Jul. 24, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/384,753.
Application 17/384,753 is a continuation of application No. 16/558,136, filed on Sep. 1, 2019, granted, now 11,072,946.
Application 16/558,136 is a continuation of application No. 15/285,469, filed on Oct. 4, 2016, granted, now 10,400,487, issued on Sep. 3, 2019.
Application 15/285,469 is a continuation of application No. 14/181,660, filed on Feb. 15, 2014, granted, now 9,464,467, issued on Oct. 11, 2016.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/765,681, filed on Feb. 15, 2013.
Int. Cl. E05B 65/00 (2006.01); E05B 13/00 (2006.01); E05C 1/08 (2006.01); E05C 1/14 (2006.01); E05C 17/30 (2006.01); E06B 11/02 (2006.01); E05C 1/12 (2006.01); E06B 9/00 (2006.01)
CPC E05B 65/0007 (2013.01) [E05B 13/002 (2013.01); E05B 65/0014 (2013.01); E05C 1/085 (2013.01); E05C 17/30 (2013.01); E06B 11/02 (2013.01); E05C 1/12 (2013.01); E06B 2009/002 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. In combination with a residential safety barrier, a gate latch apparatus for the residential safety barrier, the residential safety barrier having a gate and a barrier portion confronting the gate, the gate being openable relative to the barrier portion, the gate having a horizontally extending support member, a first vertically extending support member, the horizontally extending support member and first vertically extending support member engaged to each other at a first junction, the gate latch apparatus comprising:
a) a latch receptor engaged to the barrier portion;
b) a housing engaged to the gate across from the latch receptor, the housing enclosing a portion of the horizontally extending support member, the housing enclosing a portion of the first vertically extending support member, the housing enclosing the first junction where the junction is a T-junction;
c) a latch in the housing and having a latch end, the latch engaging the horizontally extending support member and being slideable thereon, the latch being slideable in first and second directions, the latch being slideable in the first direction to slide the latch end out of the latch receptor, the latch being slideable in the second direction to slide the latch end into the latch receptor; and
d) the horizontally extending support member having an open end adjacent to the latch receptor of the barrier portion, the latch end having a closed end portion adjacent to the open end of the horizontally extending support member, and a spring engaged in the horizontally extending support member and engaging the closed end portion of the latch end.