Claims
- 1. A door lock assembly comprising
- a pair of mirror imaged levers each including
- a horizontal handle portion and
- a hub portion having a thru bore extending there-through and having a bottom portion and a set screw receiving hole extending vertically upwardly through said bottom portion to said thru bore, and
- a latch assembly including
- an exterior cylindrical hub having an end portion for insertion into the thru bore of one of said levers,
- an interior cylindrical hub having an end portion for insertion into the thru bore of the other of said levers,
- emergency plug means secured to said exterior cylindrical hub,
- the hub portion thru bore of each lever and each of said cylindrical hubs including cooperating means for preventing relative rotation between a lever and the cylindrical hub inserted into the thru bore of said lever, and
- a pair of diametrically, vertically opposed set screw receiving holes in each of said cylindrical hubs selectively located so that when one of said cylindrical hubs is inserted into either of said lever hub portion thru bores said pair of opposed cylindrical hub set screw receiving holes will be in vertical alignment with said set screw receiving hole of said lever,
- so that said pair of levers can be secured to said cylindrical hubs with said lever set screw receiving hole at the bottom of said lever when the door is either a left hand door or a right hand door.
- 2. A door lock assembly according to claim 1, further comprising means for preventing the operation of said latch assembly including turn button means secured to said interior cylindrical hub.
- 3. A door lock assembly according to claim 2, wherein said turn button means comprises a turn button insert and a turn button insert cover.
- 4. A door lock assembly according to claim 2, wherein said emergency plug means comprises an emergency plug and an emergency plug cover.
Parent Case Info
This is a continuation of application Ser. No. 07/928,600 filed on Aug. 13, 1992 now abandoned.
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