KEEPER ELEMENT FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE DOOR LOCK AND ITS PRODUCTION

摘要

A keeper according to the invention is used in combination with a motor-vehicle door post and with a latch fork displaceable in an inward direction toward and an outward direction away from the post on closing and opening of the respective door. The keeper has a U-section sheet-metal frame having flanges secured to the door post and formed with a throughgoing passage open transversely of the directions and having relative to the directions an outer edge. An incompressible but elastomeric damper insert received in the frame has a throughgoing passage aligned with that of the frame, engages inward and outward laterally past the frame, and is formed with a groove opening inward at the outer frame-passage edge. A hard metallic abutment of mushroom section has a central outwardly flared stem snugly received in the groove and tabs outwardly overreaching and overlying the outer frame-passage edge and defining an inwardly convex surface. The fork has an arm engaging through the aligned passages and having an outwardly concave surface engaging outward against the surface of the abutment in a closed and latched position of the door. The stem and groove are so dimensioned that the abutment is elastically prestressed outward against the outer frame-passage edge.