Delaney Kerry - Grade 3 Passage Leverset

No handing to specify. The Kerry lever is reversible in the field for either a left or right hand door, so one part number covers both swings. For a property manager stocking spares across a building, that means one lever on the shelf instead of two.

The Kerry is Grade 3 and classified residential, which puts it on apartment interiors, closets, and hall doors in multi-family and light rental use. It is not the right specification for a commercial corridor or an institutional opening carrying heavy daily traffic; those call for a Grade 2 or Grade 1 commercial cylindrical lever. Grade 3 is the residential duty tier under the ANSI/BHMA cycle and strength grading.

It comes with a round corner latch face and a full lip round corner strike. If your frame currently has a round corner strike cut in, the included strike drops back into the same mortise. If the existing prep is square corner or a T strike, the frame mortise will not match the round corner face and you will need to re-mortise or change the strike.

The Delaney Kerry is a passage lever - the latch bolt is operated from either side at all times, with no locking, which suits halls, closets and other openings that never need to be secured. For an opening that has to be locked from the inside, the Cal-Royal INDLEV-20 is a privacy leverset with a red/green occupancy indicator, so the door shows at a glance whether the room is in use. Both are cylindrical levers that fit doors 1-3/8 inch to 1-3/4 inch thick and both are offered in 2-3/8 inch and 2-3/4 inch backsets, so a single door prep accepts either one.

Either. The Kerry ships with combination screws that suit wood or metal door mounting, so the same box works on a wood slab or a hollow metal door with the standard bored prep. Construction is all metal and the mounting screws are concealed, so nothing shows on the rose once it is on.

Projection is 2-5/16 inches off the face of the door and the lever itself is 4-1/8 inches long. That matters where a door swings back against a wall or into a tight corridor, and where an adjacent door or cabinet could clash with the lever handle at full swing.

No. The round corner latch and the full lip round corner strike come in the box, along with combination screws for wood or metal doors. You set the backset to 2-3/8 or 2-3/4 inches to match your bore and install it. Nothing else is required to complete a standard bored opening.

The Delaney Kerry is a Grade 3 lever rated for residential duty, which suits apartment interiors, model units and light-traffic openings. Where the same building has commercial-duty openings, the Cal-Royal INDLEV-20 is a standard duty commercial grade lever, and it carries the privacy function with an occupancy indicator that restrooms usually need. Both mount to the same cylindrical prep and cover the same 1-3/8 inch to 1-3/4 inch door thickness range, so the two can share a door schedule where the duty rating differs by opening.

They share the prep but not the behavior. The Delaney Kerry passage lever retracts the latch from both sides at all times and is reversible for left or right handing, so it is the correct part for a closet or hall door that is never locked. The Cal-Royal INDLEV-20 is a privacy lever with a red/green occupancy indicator, so installing it on a closet adds an inside lock and a status window on a door that has no use for either, and it can trap the door closed. Both fit 1-3/8 inch to 1-3/4 inch doors, so if a closet lever needs to be swapped for a privacy lever later, the existing bore accepts it.

Two finishes: US15 Satin Nickel and US12P Tuscany Bronze. If you are matching existing hardware across a building, those are the two options on the Kerry passage lever, so pick the one that matches your entry and privacy levers on the same floor.

The Kerry family carries a KW1 solid brass 5 pin cylinder that can be pulled for easy re-keying on the keyed functions in the series. The passage version itself is non-locking, so there is nothing to key on it. If you are standardizing a building on KW1, the keyed functions in the Kerry line share that keyway.