Emergency exit lock set for grille doors or windows / Jamazuki Othman, Mohamad Salahudin Mohamas Saad and Mohd Fahmi Hamid @ Siron

Housing is a basic human need for shelter for human activities. It improves the well-being of the people and contributes to economic development by integrating social factors into the economic system. Housing should be free from all sort of criminal activities so as to accord the inhabitant the opportunity of realizing the full potentialities of qualitative housing as enshrine within the united nation context of adequate housing. The grille door of any premises is commonly locked by a locking device or a padlock through the holes of the locking brackets. However, in case of an emergency or a panic situation, the key to open the locking device may not be available and loss of lives could happen. This invention, the emergency lockset is designed to enable one of the locking brackets to be easily detached from the structure and to allow the grille door to open without using a key. This Emergency Exit Lock-set for Grille Door is characterized by a rectangular elongated housing with a detachable locking bracket held by a movable plunger and an actuator which is linked to the plunger. The housing of the emergency exit lockset is installed in the frame of the grille structure. Upon triggering, the actuator retracts the plunger and the detachable locking bracket is released and separated from its housing. This invention takes into consideration the function of the grille door which is to maintain the security of the premises because the actuator that releases the locking bracket is mounted inside the premises.