Portable door lock
View Patent ↗A portable door lock includes a stop member and a connection plate, wherein the stop member has a slot defined therethrough and a rod is movably engaged with the slot. The stop member has two flat sides and one of which is to be contact an inside of a door. The connection plate has a hole and a tongue splits from the hole so as to be inserted in a recess in a door jamb. Two positioning holes are defined through the connection plate so that the connection plate cab be fixed to the door jamb. At least one engaging hole is defined through the connection plate so that the rod is engaged with the at least one engaging hole. A chain is connected between the stop member and the connection plate. The connection plate does not disengage from the doorjamb when the door is opened.
1. A portable door lock comprising:
a stop member having a slot defined therethrough and a rod movably engaged with the slot, the stop member having a flat side which is adapted to contact an inside of a door;
a connection plate composed of a first part and a second part, a hole defined through the first part and a tongue split from the hole so as to be adapted to insert in a recess in a door jamb, a protrusion extending from a back side of the first part and a passage defined through the protrusion, two positioning holes defined through the first part and two bolts extending through the two positioning holes and adapted to be fixed to the door jamb, and
the second part having at least one engaging hole defined therethrough and two lugs extending from an end of the second part, each lug having a through hole and the protrusion located between the two lugs and a pin extending through the two lugs and the passage in the protrusion.
2. The portable door lock as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the slot includes two serrated insides and the rod includes two grooves defined in an outer periphery thereof, the serrated insides of the slot engaged with one of the two grooves and an inner periphery of the at least one engaging hole engaged with the other groove.
3. The portable door lock as claimed in claim 1 , wherein two engaging projections extend from two ends of the protrusion and two notches are defined in an outer periphery of the two lugs respectively, the two projections being shifted to be engaged with the two notches by pulling the second part in a direction away from the first part.
4. The portable door lock as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the at least one engaging hole is a Y-shaped hole.
5. The portable door lock as claimed in claim 3 further comprising a biasing member received in the passage of the protrusion and biases the pin to normally engaging the two projections with the two notches.
6. The portable door lock as claimed in claim 1 further comprising a fluorescent mark painted on an outer surface of the stop member.
7. The portable door lock as claimed in claim 1 , the passage has an elongated inner periphery.