LATCH ASSEMBLY

摘要

A latch assembly having a chassis a latch bolt (14) , moveably mounted on the chassis and having a closed position for retaining a striker and an open position for releasing the striker, a pawl (16) having an engaged position at which the pawl is engaged with the latch bolt to hold the latch bolt in the closed position and a disengaged position at which the pawl is disengaged from the latch bolt thereby allowing the latch bolt to move to the open position, an eccentric (54) arrangement defining an eccentric axis and a pawl axis remote from the eccentric axis, with the eccentric being rotatable about the eccentric axis and with the pawl being rotatable about the pawl axis, in which when the pawl moves from the engaged position to the disengaged position the eccentric arrangement rotates in one of a clockwise and anticlockwise direction about the eccentric axis and with the pawl in the engaged position a force applied to the pawl by the latch bolt creates a turning moment on the eccentric arrangement in said one of a clockwise and anticlockwise direction and the eccentric arrangement is prevented from rotating in said one of a clockwise and anticlockwise direction by a moveable abutment.