Description
H117-1AC Spring-Loaded Push-Button Rim Latch
The H117-1AC Spring-Loaded Push-Button Rim Latch is a Hartwell aerospace access-hardware component designed to retain a door, hood, or removable panel. The item is manufacturer-stamped HARTWELL H117-1-AC and cross-references to NSN 5340-00-675-2084.
Its compact rim-mounted mechanism combines a spring-loaded latch member with a clearly marked PUSH control for convenient panel release.
Historical Significance
Hartwell Corporation has long specialized in latches and access hardware for commercial and military aerospace applications. Hardware of this type provided secure panel retention while supporting maintenance access to enclosed equipment and service areas.
NSN 5340-00-675-2084 entered the federal catalog in 1963. The accompanying wrapper carries a 1967 contract marking and an August 1970 date marking, placing its military supply history within the same broad period as the SUU-16/A and SUU-23/A external gun-pod programs.
SUU-16/A and SUU-23/A Association
The wrapper’s printed stock number, 5340-909-3347, now cross-references to General Electric drawing 116C2693P1 rather than Hartwell P/N H117-1AC. Other General Electric 116C-series drawings are documented among components associated with the SUU-16/A and SUU-23/A 20mm gun-pod family.
Based on that drawing-family connection and the latch’s access-panel function, this example is believed to have been associated with SUU-16/A and/or SUU-23/A gun-pod access hardware. In that context, the latch would have served as panel-retention hardware rather than as part of the 20mm cannon itself.
What This Item Is and Does
The H117-1AC Spring-Loaded Push-Button Rim Latch is a surface-mounted mechanical fastener. A rim latch mounts to the face or inside surface of a closure and uses a projecting latch member to retain the closure against its frame or keeper.
The spring-loaded mechanism maintains latch engagement, while the marked push-button control provides the release input. This arrangement is suited to access doors, equipment hoods, and removable panels where compact hardware and direct manual access are useful.
Key Features
- Manufacturer: Hartwell Corporation
- Catalog part number: H117-1AC
- Manufacturer-stamped form: H117-1-AC
- National Stock Number: 5340-00-675-2084
- Federal item name: LATCH, RIM
- Control marking: PUSH
- Item patent marking: PAT. NO. 2,699,967
- Manufacturer location marking: LOS ANGELES USA
- Wrapper contract marking: F01601-67-C-0465
Why This Item Matters
This latch retains its original Hartwell identification, federal catalog cross-reference, patent marking, and period wrapper. Those details make it useful for aerospace-hardware study, restoration reference, museum interpretation, and research into its possible SUU-series gun-pod supply context.
About This Item
The item itself is stamped HARTWELL H117-1-AC, LOS ANGELES USA, and PAT. NO. 2,699,967. Federal catalog records list the normalized part number H117-1AC under NSN 5340-00-675-2084.
The wrapper and a hand-applied item marking also show 5340-909-3347. That stock number cross-references separately to General Electric part number 116C2693P1, so it is retained as an observed historical marking rather than used as this Hartwell latch’s NSN.
Visible surface wear, scratches, discoloration, and applied inventory markings are present as shown in the photographs.
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Ideal For
This item is a strong fit for:
- Aerospace hardware collectors
- Military aircraft restoration reference
- SUU-16/A and SUU-23/A gun-pod research collections
- Museum and educational displays
- Hartwell latch and fastener collections
- Cold War military supply research
- Film and prop departments seeking period aerospace hardware
Approx length 7.5", Approx width 1.25", Approx height 1.5", Approx weight .5lbs.
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