Abstract:
A pick-resistant lock assembly may include a housing having a cylindrical opening. The cylindrical opening may have a centerline. The housing may include a plurality of pin cavities intersecting the cylindrical opening. A plug may be rotatably mounted in the cylindrical opening. The plug may include a keyway and a plug axis. A slide bar pocket may be formed within the housing. The lock assembly may include a pin verification mechanism having a slide bar in the slide bar pocket. The pin verification mechanism may be concealed within the housing and may be inaccessible to an attacker inserting a hand tool through the keyway. Other examples may be described and claimed.
Abstract:
A substantially flat key blade extends from a grip portion and has a connecting portion, a major longitudinal bitting portion and a free tip portion. The substantially flat key blade has a cross-sectional profile which, in the major longitudinal bitting portion, is confined within a rectangle having a height, measured in a vertical direction, being at least 2.5 times larger than a width thereof, and extends upwards in the vertical direction from a lower edge surface to an upper edge surface along a vertical mid-plane through the rectangle. A single upper part of the key blade has a relatively small lateral width being no more than 33% of the lower relatively wide part of the key blade and extends obliquely upwards at a relatively small inclinational angle in the interval 3° to 12° relative to a vertical plane.
Abstract:
A cylinder lock designed to prevent unauthorized manipulation of the lock using impact-driven methods such as a bump key. The cylinder lock has a plurality of first pin assemblies and at least one second pin assembly, containing a key pin, driver pin, and an elastomer plug, that is adapted so as to alter the linear displacement thereof through the use of the elastomer plug. When an impact-driven blow of a given intensity is applied so as to linearly displace the key and driver pins, the elastomer plug effectively absorbs the energy of the impact and fails to compress sufficiently to allow the key pin to clear the shear line, thus preventing the unauthorized manipulation of the lock.
Abstract:
A cylinder lock whose stator is a longitudinal groove and whose rotary cylinder has a key receiving slit, two series of seatings and two orthogonal slits; a series of sliders pushed by springs is inserted, with mobility in two directions, into the first series of seatings of the cylinder and cooperates with a key, and each slider is provided with projections and with a member for sliding engagement; a series of tumblers is slidingly inserted into the second series of seatings of the cylinder, and each tumbler is provided with recesses turned towards the sliders and with at least one recess at the opposite side; a stop bar pushed by springs is inserted into an orthogonal slit and is provided with projections turned towards the tumblers and with a continuous projection suitable for being inserted into the groove of the stator; and a translation bar pushed by springs is inserted into the other orthogonal slit of the cylinder, engages the members for sliding engagement of the sliders and is provided with a continuous projection suitable for being inserted into the groove of the stator; the parts are coordinated in such a manner that the stop bar immobilizes the tumblers until its continuous projection penetrates into the groove of the stator, and that the sliders engage the tumblers until the continuous projection of the translation bar penetrates into the groove of the stator, thus giving rise to a condition in which the key can be replaced by a different key.
Abstract:
A lock adapted to be operated by a bitted key and including dual locking features which must be both operated to cause the unlocking. A key-operated lock including a cylinder, a plug rotatable into the cylinder, tumblers carried by the plug and arranged to be displaced radially of the plug to lock and unlock the latter to the cylinder, at least one indentation into each tumbler, a locking side bar extending longitudinally of the plug and arranged to releasably lock the latter to the cylinder, and movable releasing members adapted to respond to predetermined positioning of the tumblers to release the locking side bar.
Abstract:
A key operated lock including a housing having a cylindrical bore therethrough in which a plug is rotatably mounted. Apertures extend radially outwardly in the housing from the bore and each slidably receives a driver. Each driver is aligned, in one position of the lock, with a tumbler assembly movably positioned in an aperture in the plug. The tumbler assembly- receiving apertures communicate with a main key slot in the plug, and insertion of a main key in this slot biases the several tumbler assemblies to a lock-opening position in which the tumbler assemblies contact the drivers along a shear line lying in the interface between the plug and body. The tumbler assemblies are adjustable in their dimensions so that they may be altered to permit a new key to be made operative for opening the lock. Each tumbler assembly includes two relatively movable parts which are interlocked by a locking pin until it is desired to alter the assembly''s dimension for key changing purposes. The locking pins are cammed to the interlocking positions by cam plates. These cam plates line up with the driver apertures when the plug is rotated to a key changing position, and in this position, a change key can be inserted in a change key slot in the plug to bias each locking pin to a position in which the two relatively movable parts of each tumbler assembly are disengaged. The tumbler assemblies can then automatically accommodate their dimensions to an entirely different main key inserted in the main key slot.
Abstract:
A paddle latch having a pan with a well, a paddle handle, a handle pivot, a rotary latch portion, and a trigger arm arrangement. The paddle handle pivot has a pin that non-rotatably engages with the paddle handle to pivotally attach the paddle handle in the well of the pan and has a pin trigger. The rotary latch portion has a housing containing a rotary hook with a mouth and a rotary trigger. The rotary trigger retains the rotary hook in either an open position where the mouth of the rotary hook is accessible from outside of the housing, or semi-closed or completely closed positions, where the mouth is blocked by the housing. The trigger arm arrangement is adapted to transfer of pivotal movement of the paddle handle to the rotary trigger to release the rotary hook from the semi-closed position or the completely closed position to its open position. Only when the rotary hook is in the semi-closed position will the paddle handle be automatically partially tilted out from the well of the pan.
Abstract:
A programmable cylinder lock includes a stator and a cylindrical rotor mounted therein, having a keyhole and including inside the rotor key followers movable along the longitudinal and transversal directions, and locking pins movable along the longitudinal direction, the followers and locking pins forming together a number of pairs and having toothings for mutually cooperating to define the lock codification, the rotor including a stop bar cooperating with a longitudinal groove of the stator and cooperating with the locking pins, and a change bar slidingly coupled with the followers to keep them engaged with the pins and disengage them therefrom when the bar provides a lock programming position. The bar has projections facing the keyhole, and the use key has corresponding recesses to face the projections when correctly inserted in the lock, whereas the change key has a longitudinal groove extending in a position corresponding to the use key recesses.
Abstract:
A lock core and key blank are disclosed. The disclosed lock core includes a core body, a core sleeve, a core plug, and a side pin assembly including a side pin, a region pin, and a spring.