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50 Year Old Door Lock

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50 Year Old Door Lock

Postby latch-key-kid » 15 May 2025 10:15

Several years ago, the non-profit where I volunteer purchased an old school building and has been renovating it. Nearly all of the locks on the internal doors look like the one in the photos. The core is by Yale (obviously), but what do you call the type of latch with two separate parts? I'm guessing it's some kind of "deadlatch", but I can't come up with the right search terms to research it further on Google. Thanks!
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Re: 50 Year Old Door Lock

Postby Squelchtone » 15 May 2025 16:52

That style of lock is called a unit lock.

GWiens2001 would know what kind of locking function it is..

my best guess is Deadlocking latchbolt

Here's a video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZZ092_BCuk&ab_channel=SELockandKey


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Re: 50 Year Old Door Lock

Postby latch-key-kid » 16 May 2025 12:15

Thanks!
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