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Flush mountable pulls, latches and locks for industrial cabinets, tool carts, electrical equipment enclosures and the like utilize a versatile housing together with other components of novel form mounted on the housing to provide a variety of desired features. Pull handles as well as latch and lock

Flush mountable pulls, latches and locks for industrial cabinets, tool carts, electrical equipment enclosures and the like utilize a versatile housing together with other components of novel form mounted on the housing to provide a variety of desired features. Pull handles as well as latch and lock operating handles of a wide variety of types can be connected to the housing, as can a wide variety of latch bolt mechanisms that are configured to engage various types of strikers or keeper formations. The resulting arrangement provides sturdy pull, latch and lock assemblies that employ a small number of parts that can be assembled, installed and serviced with ease.

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A flush-mountable latch, comprising: (a) housing means including a one-piece pan-shaped housing having a front wall, and having recess-defining wall formations that define a forwardly facing recess, with portions of the front wall forming a mounting flange that surrounds the recess; (b) the one-piec

A flush-mountable latch, comprising: (a) housing means including a one-piece pan-shaped housing having a front wall, and having recess-defining wall formations that define a forwardly facing recess, with portions of the front wall forming a mounting flange that surrounds the recess; (b) the one-piece housing being formed from plastics material as a rigid, molded structure, with the recess-defining wall formations including a back wall at the rear of the recess, and with the back wall defining a rearwardly facing, substantially planar mounting surface; (c) mounting means rigidly connected to the back wall of the one-piece housing including first and second mounting studs formed from metal, with each of the mounting studs having an elongate, generally cylindrical body with opposed end regions, with an enlarged head formation being defined on one end region of the body, and with a threaded shank being defined on the other end region of the body, with the enlarged head regions of the first and second mounting studs being embedded within the molded plastics material that defines the back wall to provide a rigid connection between the mounting stud and the back wall, with the generally cylindrical bodies of the first and second mounting studs being oriented such that their axes extend substantially parallel to each other and through the mounting surface in directions that are substantially perpendicular to the plane of the mounting surface, and with the threaded shanks projecting rearwardly from the mounting surface at spaced locations on opposite sides of the mounting surface; (d) handle means including a handle nested within the recess and being connected rigidly to the housing; (e) latch bolt means connected to the housing for movement relative to the housing between latched and unlatched positions; and, (f) latch operator means movably connected to the housing at a location external to the recess and being accessible through the front wall for moving the latch bolt means between its latched position and its unlatched position.