Emtek Modern Brass Key In Leverset - Hercules Lever with Rosette Options - Single Cylinder

Handing is required on the Hercules leverset, so you need to know which way the door swings before you order. It's sold left hand (LH) and right hand (RH). Stand outside the door (the keyed side): if the hinges are on your left and the door opens away from you, it's left hand. Get this wrong and the lever points the wrong way on the door.

Yes, but you have to call it out. The Hercules entry lever ships standard with a 2-3/8 inch backset latch, and 2-3/4 inch is a selectable option at no change to the lockset itself. Measure from the door edge to the center of the bore hole: 2-3/8 is typical residential, 2-3/4 shows up on doors with wider stiles and on most commercial preps.

Built for a standard 1-3/4 inch door as supplied. If your door is thicker than that, you enter the actual thickness when ordering and the lockset is supplied to suit. Don't skip that step on a thick or custom slab, a lockset short on spindle and screw length won't pull up tight.

Keying alike is a free option on the Hercules entry lever, so a unit with a front door and a back door can run one key across both. Keyed different is the other choice, and there's a field for keying to a specific code if you're matching an existing master or key system already in the building. Pick the keyway first, Schlage standard or Weiser WR5, since everything has to sit on the same keyway to key alike.

It's a residential lockset, solid brass, contemporary styling. For a leased corridor, a school, or anywhere the door takes constant traffic and a grade is on the spec, go commercial instead: the Falcon K101 K Series is Grade 1 heavy duty and fire rated for 1-3/8 to 2-1/4 inch doors, and the Corbin Russwin CL3100 Series CL3110 is Grade 1 vandal resistant and fire rated for 1-3/4 to 2 inch doors. Use the Hercules on apartment unit entries, condos, and houses where the look matters.

It's a tubular bored lockset, so it goes into the same 2-1/8 inch cross bore and 1 inch edge bore that a standard residential knob or lever already uses. Match the backset to what's already drilled, 2-3/8 standard or 2-3/4 as an option, and confirm the door is 1-3/4 inches or state the thickness. A mortise lock body cannot be swapped for this, that's a different pocket in the door entirely.

The Hercules is ordered with the Weiser WR5 keyway by adding a W to the beginning of the product code, with no upcharge for the cylinder substitution, and it can be keyed into an existing Weiser system - so no substitute is needed. If the building runs on Schlage instead, the Hercules ships that keyway as standard, and Cal-Royal's AG00 entrance lever and AG05 storeroom lever also use a Schlage C keyway if the same key needs to reach a commercial-grade door.

The Hercules key-in leverset is a brass residential entry lock with a tubular lock body, so for a Grade 1 rated opening look at the Dexter C1000 Series Entry/Office cylindrical lever lock, which is Grade 1 with an Entrance/Office function and fits doors 1-3/8 to 1-3/4 inches. Corbin Russwin's CL3300 Series is another Grade 1 cylindrical lever platform, rated for 1-3/4 to 2 inch doors. The Emtek keeps the decorative brass rosette choices - Modern Brass Disk, Square and Rectangular among them - that the commercial locks do not offer.

No - the Hercules is built on an Entry function, which unlocks from the inside lever at all times. For a classroom door where the outside lever is keyed to lock and unlock, the Dexter C1000 Series Grade 1 Classroom lever is the clutching keyed version, and the Cal-Royal AG03 is a Grade 2 classroom lever with a 6-pin Schlage C keyway on a 2-3/4 inch backset. For a storeroom door that stays locked outside and free inside, the Cal-Royal AG05 is a Grade 2 storeroom lever with a deadlocking latchbolt, and the Hager 2580 is a Grade 2 storeroom lever with the Withnell design for 1-3/8 to 2 inch doors.

For a fire rated opening, specify a lock listed for it. The Falcon K101 Grade 1 passage lock carries a fire rating and covers 1-3/8 to 2-1/4 inch doors, the Corbin Russwin CL3110 Grade 1 vandal resistant passage lever carries a fire rating for 1-3/4 to 2 inch doors, and the Kwikset 200DL-RCALFD Delta passage lever uses a round corner adjustable 20 minute UL latch. Those are passage function; the Emtek Hercules is a keyed single cylinder entry lever for residential use.

Single cylinder: key on the outside, thumbturn on the inside, so nobody needs a key to get out. It's an entry function tubular lock, meaning the outside lever locks and the inside lever always retracts the latch. On a door with glass beside it some buyers prefer a double cylinder for security, but that isn't how the Hercules key-in lever is built.

Seven finishes across the Hercules lever: Flat Black (US19), Oil Rubbed Bronze (US10B), Polished Chrome (US26), Polished Nickel Lifetime (US14), Satin Brass (US4), Satin Nickel (US15), and Unlacquered Brass (US3NL). If you want the rosette one finish and the lever another, there's a split finish field to write that in. Unlacquered brass will patina with handling, the others hold their look.

Seven rosette shapes pair with the Hercules lever: Modern Brass Disk, Modern Brass Rectangular, Modern Brass Square, Classic Brass Regular, Classic Brass Rectangular, Classic Brass #8, and Classic Brass Rope. The rope rosette comes in limited finishes, so confirm the finish you want is offered with it. Square and rectangular read contemporary, the disk and regular round rosettes are the safer match to existing round-rose trim already on the doors.

An entry lockset is keyed on the outside, so it isn't what you want on a bedroom, bath, or closet door. For those, buy passage (no lock at all, hall and closet) and privacy (push-button, bed and bath) levers in the same finish family. Baldwin's Estate 5103 is sold as passage and as privacy with the 5048 rose, and half dummies in left and right hand for a closet or a fixed inactive leaf. Bravura's Miramar passage lever is offered in US4 satin brass, which matches a satin brass entry set.

The Hercules is a mechanical keyed lockset with no electronic component. For code entry, the Delaney LP250 is a Grade 2 electronic keypad leverlock, and Lockey's mechanical keypad levers need no power at all - the 1150 heavy duty double combination lever set fits doors from 1-1/8 to 2 inches, and the 2835 pushbutton lever fits 1-3/16 to 2 inch doors and is listed as ADA compliant.

Deltana's entry levers run the same keyed entry function in a decorative range: the 5851 Claremont, the 6201 Manchester, the 6411 Morant and the 6431 Linstead are all entry function levers, with the Manchester, Morant and Linstead rated for doors from 1-3/8 to 2 inches. The Emtek Hercules is set up for a standard 1-3/4 inch door and is ordered with handing, a 2-3/8 or 2-3/4 inch backset, and either the Schlage keyway or the Weiser WR5 keyway.

Several cylindrical levers share the shape but carry no cylinder. The Falcon B101 and Falcon K101 are passage function locks, the K101 non-handed and Grade 1 for doors 1-3/8 to 2-1/4 inches; the Arrow GL01 Sierra lever is a Grade 2 non-keyed passage lock; the Bravura Atlanta, Orlando, Tampa and Miramar are Grade 2 passage leversets. The Hercules is a keyed single cylinder entry lock, so none of these will accept a key from outside.

Handing is required on the Hercules leverset. Where the hand is not known at order time, non-handed cylindrical levers avoid the question: the Falcon K101 is a Grade 1 passage lock with non-handed levers and the Falcon B101 is a Grade 2 passage lever with a non-handed design, and the Kwikset 200DL Delta passage lever is reversible. Those are passage function, so for a keyed opening the Hercules hand has to be established from the door swing.

The Hercules is an entry lockset, so the inactive leaf needs dummy trim. In decorative brass, the Baldwin Estate 5103 half dummy comes in left hand and right hand versions with the 5048 rose. On the commercial side, the BEST 9K Series 1DT is a Grade 1 heavy duty single dummy trim lever, the BEST 7KC Series 1DT is the Grade 2 medium duty single dummy, the Accentra 455LN Augusta is a Grade 1 heavy duty single dummy, and the Callan Bentley is a Grade 2 dummy lever.

The Hercules is a single cylinder keyed entry lever on its own, with the cylinder in the lever and no separate bolt. Where the opening calls for a second point of locking in one order, the Callan Bennett is a Grade 3 entrance leverset supplied as a deadbolt combo. The Hercules instead lets the keying be matched across the order, keyed different or keyed alike, and to an existing key code.

Brass is the substrate, not a coating, on the Hercules lever, and it's part of Emtek's Brass collection. That's what you're paying for over a plated zinc residential lever, and it's why the unlacquered brass option can be left to age rather than flaking.

For lighter duty entry openings, the Cal-Royal AUS00 is a Grade 3 entrance/office lever with a solid brass forged body for doors 1-3/8 to 1-3/4 inches, the Callan Artino is a Grade 3 entrance leverset, and the Master Lock RL Series return style lever is a Grade 3 keyed entry lockset. The Emtek Hercules is a brass residential entry lever offered in seven finishes from Flat Black to Unlacquered Brass and in seven rosette styles.

The Hercules is a lever handle set. Where a knob is wanted instead, the Arrow MK33-BD-CS is a Grade 2 asylum function ball knob lock with a conventional cylinder in a Schlage C keyway, the Arrow HK11-BB is an entrance function turn-pushbutton ball knob lock for doors 1-3/8 to 1-3/4 inches, and the Arrow MK02-TA is a privacy Tudor knob lock that carries a fire rating.