TEMPORARY ENGAGING MECHANISM FOR SLIDING DOORS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a temporary engaging mechanism for sliding doors, which prevents rebound of the sliding doors at the time of closing the same. SOLUTION: The temporary engaging mechanism is formed of a trigger 4, a hook 9, a ratchet body 16, and a ratchet guide 23. The trigger is arranged in a lock box 2 in a manner being guided in the horizontal direction, and energized in a direction protruding outward from a front plate 1. The hook is of a plate body having a sector gear 12 in mesh with a rack 8 formed on the trigger, on one end thereof, and borne by a center axis in a manner rotatable about the same. The hook has an arm portion 13 formed on one side of the other end, which is to be thrust into a strike hole, and an arcuate portion with the rotation center of the sector gear as the center, on the other side of the other end. The arcuate portion has a ratchet gear 15 formed thereon. The ratchet body has a ratchet claw 17 protruded from a front end thereof, and it is guided in a vertical direction along a guide plate 26 in the lock box and in a direction in which the ratchet claw is inclined inward. The ratchet body is energized upward. The ratchet guide is arranged on one side of the ratchet body 16 opposite to the guide plate, and guided in the horizontal direction. Further the ratchet guide is energized in a direction that elastically presses the ratchet body to the guide plate. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI