TY - JOUR
AU1 - Cox, H. C.
AU2 - Norman, A. E.
AB - THE DESIGN OF AUTOMOBILE DOOR LATCHES By H. C. Cox, C.Eng., M.I.Mech.E.*, and A. E. Norman, B.Sc..f. INTRODUCTION and striker is necessary and the dimension d,, which in THE TITLE OF THIS PAPER has been carefully chosen with a our work diagram is the engagement necessary for toler- view to avoiding the confusion that can easily arise by use ances, is large. of the popular word ‘lock‘. Throughout this paper we This factor is minimized if we rotate the latch into the are referring to automobile door latches as being that vertical plane, since a simple guidance system can now be mechanism which keeps the vehicle door in the closed used to control the engagement. condition and we shall confine the use of the word lock to A further significant contribution can be obtained by describing the device into which one inserts a key in order changing the basic motion within the latch from sliding to obtain security of the vehicle. When the very early to rotational. automobile body engineers had to consider closing doors Fig. 3 shows an arrangement embodying both of the on their vehicles, the domestic door latch was one of the above factors together with 
TI - The Design of Automobile Door Latches: 
JF - Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Automobile Division
DO - 10.1243/PIME_AUTO_1967_182_021_02
DA - 2016-11-03
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/the-design-of-automobile-door-latches-IBaLOmRmIU
SP - 137
EP - 148
VL - 182
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -