With Fastener Or Holder Patents (Class 70/317)
  • Patent number: 9476225
    Abstract: A combination lock is provided, the combination lock having a rotary latch configured for rotation between a locked position and an unlocked position, the rotary latch rotating in a first plane; and a bolt configured for movement between a first position and a second position along a second plane the second plane being oriented at a different location than the first plane, the bolt engaging the rotary latch in the first position such that rotation of the rotary latch from the locked position to the unlocked position is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: ZEPHYR LOCK, LLC
    Inventors: Patrick E. Wind, Kevin Houlihan, Douglas Greene
  • Patent number: 9353549
    Abstract: A combination lock is provided, the combination lock having a rotary latch configured for rotation between a locked position and an unlocked position, the rotary latch rotating in a first plane; and a bolt configured for movement between a first position and a second position along a second plane the second plane being oriented at a different location than the first plane, the bolt engaging the rotary latch in the first position such that rotation of the rotary latch from the locked position to the unlocked position is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: ZEPHYR LOCK, LLC
    Inventors: Patrick E. Wind, Kevin Houlihan, Douglas Greene
  • Patent number: 8297087
    Abstract: A lock device includes a locking unit, a connecting unit, and a latch. The locking unit includes a shank, a rotation knob, a control wheel, a plurality of number wheels, a plurality of locating pieces, and a plurality of snap-fit members. The shank has a first positioning hole. The rotation knob has a second positioning hole combined with the first positioning hole of the shank by a positioning member. Thus, the user has to detach the positioning member from the first positioning hole of the shank to release the rotation knob so as to rotate the rotation knob for changing the code of the number wheels, thereby preventing the user from changing the code of the number wheels freely when rotating the rotation knob unintentionally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Ging Hwa Long Hardware Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yu-Shen Lin
  • Patent number: 8020415
    Abstract: A tamper-resistant pill bottle for securely storing a quantity of medication. The pill bottle includes a receptacle, a cap for fitting over the receptacle, and a combination lock integral with the cap for releasably locking the cap to the receptacle. The combination lock includes a series of combination wheels that partially protrude through a sidewall of the cap and can be rotatably manipulated by a user. The combination for the combination lock can be set by a user upon receipt of the pill bottle. The pill bottle further includes an inconspicuous defeat mechanism integral with the cap for allowing the pill bottle to be opened, preferably by a pharmacist, if a user forgets the combination of the combination lock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Inventors: Stampp W. Corbin, Eric A. Warner
  • Publication number: 20100170306
    Abstract: A zipper password lock includes a lock tongue and a lock body assembly. The lock tongue includes a first engaging member disposed at a side of the lock tongue. The lock body assembly includes a housing having a lock groove for the lock tongue to be inserted into and a mounting base for securing the housing, and a dial wheel connected to a side of the housing, the dial wheel including a first side with a plurality of marks visible to a user and a second side including a password portion corresponding to one of the marks and a plurality of locking portions respectively corresponding to the other marks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2010
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Inventors: Chun Lai FONG, Hau Man Yiu
  • Patent number: 7574880
    Abstract: A key lock structure arranged in a mechanical key lock device refusing any code pressing while locked, so as to avoid finding out the correct codes by try and error. The key lock structure includes a casing, a sliding base disposed in the casing, an orientation frame arranged on a bottom face of the sliding base and a plurality of code-locked keystroke bodies. The sliding base has a plurality of elongation arms parallel to one another, a plurality of slots arranged with the elongation arms in an alternate manner, and a plurality of stop portions disposed in the respective slots. The orientation frame is disposed under the sliding base. Each of the code-locked keystroke bodies has a sliding member, which has an extrusion portion capable of being blocked by the respective stop portion. Consequently, the code-locked keystroke bodies are fixed and cannot be pressed in the lock status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Inventor: Kai-Lang Yang
  • Patent number: 7458239
    Abstract: A combination-changeable complex lock includes a movable plate, a combination lock, and a sliding member. The combination lock is composed of two notched rotating discs, two gearwheels, and a combination-alteration control device. The combination-alteration control device is rotatable to separate the gearwheels from the notched rotating discs for allowing change of the set combination. The sliding member is controllable by the combination lock to engage or disengage the peripheral notches of notched rotating discs. When the combination lock is locked, the sliding member is disengaged from the notched rotating discs and forced against the movable plate to bias the movable plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Inventor: Min-Tsung Ma
  • Patent number: 7337637
    Abstract: A combination resetting member for a cable lock mainly contains a stationary piece and a movable piece. The movable piece is concentrically positioned inside the stationary piece and two diametrically opposing pins penetrates through the stationary piece, two grooves of the movable piece, and into two corresponding holes on the tip of a column of a female lock member. The movable piece has two diametrically opposing flanges on the front surface and two diametrically opposing blocks on the back surface. The flanges and the blocks are orthogonal to each other. Corresponding to each of the blocks but on the front surface, there are a shallower U-shaped groove and a deeper U-shaped groove. The movable piece can be forced to move orthogonally to the pins and the pins therefore could shift from the shallower grooves to the deeper grooves and vice versa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2008
    Inventor: Fuben Kan
  • Patent number: 7107803
    Abstract: A combination locking tube comprising a base end cap connected to a base tube having a longitudinal channel and at least one notch contiguous with the channel, at least one locking ring having a longitudinal ring channel, a notch contiguous with the ring channel and an interlocking pin, each locking ring rotatably mounted on the base tube such that the locking ring's notch is positioned over a base tube notch, at least one indicia ring rotatably mounted on a locking ring having a plurality of characters and a plurality of teeth on its outer and inner surfaces, respectively, at least one static ring statically mounted to the base tube having an interlocking pin receptacle and an annular recess, an inner tube having an end cap and at least one pin received within the base tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Inventor: Neil J. Swanson
  • Patent number: 6799446
    Abstract: A combination lock includes a female member, a lock rod inserted in the female member; the female member is inserted through single dial, several actuating rings, and co-moving rings; the dial and the actuating rings are arranged side by side, and releaseably engaged with respective co-moving rings; the dial and an actuating ring adjacent thereto have a projecting portion on opposing sides while every two adjacent actuating rings have a projecting portion on opposing sides such that the co-moving rings can be turned to unlocking position where all gaps thereof oppose a trench of the female member to form a passage for the lock rod by operating the dial; orientations of the dial and the actuating rings relative to respective co-moving rings are changed for changing the unlocking combination by operating the dial after the dial and the actuating rings are disengaged from the co-moving rings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2004
    Assignee: Jaeyou Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Cheng-Tao Tsai
  • Patent number: 6065313
    Abstract: A safety press-type zipper lock in which a lock casing is formed with two slots for placing therein tabs of a zipper slider. Each of a left and a right push buttons has a latch hook for locking with the tab. A bounding resilient plate is disposed in the slot for bouding the tab out of the slot. The numeral wheels serve to drive the notched wheel to rotate. The notched wheel serves to drive a sliding plate to shift within the lock casing. A numeral-changing button in a numeral-changing hole of the lock casing can be pressed by a sharp article, whereby a projection at one end of the numeral-changing button is engage with a protuberance of the sliding plate to lock the sliding plate for turning the numeral wheels to change the numerals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2000
    Inventor: Chien-Yung Huang
  • Patent number: 5653136
    Abstract: A locating device for a numeral wheel of a numeral lock, comprising a lock body, several numeral wheels, notched wheels and springs, wherein a locating channel is formed on a surface of the notched wheel in front of projections thereof and a latch spring is disposed in the locating channel. The latch spring has upward projecting portions, whereby when the notched wheel is fitted into the numeral wheel, the projecting portions of the latch spring and the projections of the notched wheel are all engaged with recesses of the numeral wheel. When it is desired to adjust or change a lock code, a pushing pin is used to push the notched wheel backward so as to disengage the projections from the recesses while keeping the projecting portions of the latch spring resiliently engaged with the recesses. Therefore, the numeral wheel can be rotarily adjusted and located without totally disengaging from the notched wheel so as to avoid poor location and jumping of the numeral wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 5, 1997
    Inventor: Chien-Yung Huang
  • Patent number: 5092149
    Abstract: A luggage latch has a housing mounted on a piece of luggage and a latch body or slide displaceable in the housing between a latched and unlatched position and engageable only in the latched position with a latch component on the luggage lid to retain the latch component. A slide button fixed to the latch body is longitudinally displaceable on the housing between a forward position corresponding to the latched position and a back position corresponding to the unlatched position. A plurality of number wheels rotatable on the housing are associated with respective rotatable members and formations can engage between the members and the latch body to prevent movement of the latch body into the unlatched position except when the wheels are in a predetermined angular position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1992
    Assignee: Sudhaus Schloss- und Beschlagtechnik GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Georg Bartsch, Ulf Rasch, Klaus Hesse, Franz Hauschulte
  • Patent number: 4732021
    Abstract: A combination changing mechanism for the lock of a luggage case, primarily characterized in that the operation part for opening the lock is provided in the form of a circular disc. A rotation disc is provided below the operation disc which has a rod extending downwards therefrom into the combination changing mechanism for connection with a lower disc. By this construction, the relationship between the combination dials and the corresponding sleeves can be controlled such that when the operation disc is rotated into its lock-opening position, the combination cannot be changed, when the operation disc is then rotated through 180.degree., the combination can be changed, and when the operation disc is then rotated through 90.degree., neither the lock can be opened nor the combination can be changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 22, 1988
    Inventor: Shuhn C. Su
  • Patent number: 4615193
    Abstract: A combination lock has a locking bolt movable in bolt-opening and bolt-closing directions by a bolt-operating knob; a plurality of displaceable locking bars each having a predetermined position dependent upon a set combination; an arrangement for preventing the locking bolt from movement from a fully-closed position unless each locking bar is in its predetermined position; a plurality of displaceable code bars connected to the locking bars; a plurality of displaceable digit slides each having an externally accessible, manually engageable portion, a plurality of digit markings and a lug operatively engaging into the associated code bar; a movable carrier plate traversed by the lugs of the digit slides, whereby the locking bars, the code bars and the digit slides are displaced by the carrier plate during a motion thereof in a direction opposite the direction of movement of the locking bolt during opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 7, 1986
    Assignee: Burg-Wachter KG Alfred Luling
    Inventor: Adalbert Luling
  • Patent number: 4615191
    Abstract: A barrel and cable type combination lock having clutches with changeable combination wheels mounted thereon. A grooved cable shackle is held in a lock position by balls engageable with the shackle grooves and the clutches and wheels. A barrel removable end cap functions to hold the combination wheels in place when the lock is operable, and upon the removal of the cap the combination wheels can be moved to create a new combination. Cap detent means cooperate with the cable shackle to hold the cap in position when the lock is in lock position and permits the cap's removal when the lock is unlocked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1985
    Date of Patent: October 7, 1986
    Assignee: Master Lock Company
    Inventor: Kenneth N. Grandy
  • Patent number: 4610152
    Abstract: A combination lock adapted for securing skis, bicycles and the like, having a lock housing in which setting disks for setting a lock combination are rotatably supported and from which housing there extends fixed thereto, one end of a loop, the other, free end of which is insertable into an insertion channel in the lock housing and is engageable by the inners of the lock. In this respect within the insertion channel of the lock housing a latch is provided for catching the free end of the loop. The latch is seated, displaceable against spring biasing, on a setting-disk mounting shaft and, when the lock combination is correctly set, is disengageable, by a collar on the setting-disk mounting shaft which continues into an outwardly extending actuating button, by displacement together with the mounting shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1984
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1986
    Assignee: S. Franzen Sohne (GmbH & Co.)
    Inventor: Rudi H. Duringer
  • Patent number: 4602491
    Abstract: The combination lock includes several encoding buttons, a latch plate is slidably movable between two terminal positions and has a plurality of locking pins; a plurality of lock disks each have on one side a radial groove for respectively engaging the locking pins or being disengaged therefrom, each disk further having on its outer side a diametrical groove in which respective slide locks are permitted to slide, an encoding release slide moves said slide locks; a plurality of gears are respectively connected to the encoding buttons and positioned for engagement with the slide locks, the gears are prevented from turning, thereby preventing the encoding buttons from being turned when the respective slide lock engages the gear and the locking pins are situated in the respective radial grooves, the gears are coupled to the lock disks when the locking pins are out of the respective radial grooves, the release slide when moving the slide locks decouples the lock disks from the gears and the encoding button; and res
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 29, 1986
    Assignee: Werner Mauer GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Guenter Mauer
  • Patent number: 4596125
    Abstract: The combination can be set by discs which are toothed on one of their faces. This toothing causes movement of internal bushes or rings which are at least partly contained in seats in a manually controllable slider, which can be moved against a spring when, having set the exact combination, a radial passage in said bushes or rings becomes disposed in a position such as to allow radial movement of the bushes and thus movement of the slider and opening of the lock. The combination can be changed by setting the existing combination and moving the slider and thus the rings, so that these latter disengage from the toothed discs which can thus be rotated into another position without dragging the bushes with them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 24, 1986
    Assignee: C.G.V. S.a.s. di Claudio Castiglioni & C.
    Inventors: Claudio Castiglioni, Italo Azzalin
  • Patent number: 4532784
    Abstract: A novel combination lock, mainly comprising a bolt, a case, an actuating button, three steel balls, and a slotted rod, characterized in that the combination numbers can be randomly changed for security.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1983
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1985
    Inventor: Ching C. Yeh
  • Patent number: 4445348
    Abstract: A cylinder type combination lock which is capable of being set in any desired combination of numbers and the like or changed from the once set specific combination to any other combination without using any tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 1, 1984
    Assignee: Saikosha Works Ltd.
    Inventor: Hisashi Saitoh
  • Patent number: 4389863
    Abstract: A combination lock having dial-driven sleeves mounted in axial alignment on a shaft is provided with a shift member to move the sleeves axially out of coupling engagement with the dials for changing the combination of the lock. The shift member includes a manual actuating portion extending through an opening in the face plate of the lock, and when the lock is on combination, the shift member can be moved transversely to the axis of the sleeves to effect uncoupling of the sleeves from the dials by a camming action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1983
    Assignee: Presto Lock, Inc.
    Inventor: Lazlo Bako
  • Patent number: 4353230
    Abstract: A fluid-actuated locking device for the doors of dwellings or offices or for armored doors having a plurality of tubes for the flow of a fluid supplied from a reservoir, which fluid may either be pressurized to operate a lock or may flow back through the tubes after the release of the pressure so as to allow the locking of the door; a presettable combination is provided to predetermine whether fluid will flow through the tubes thus allowing operation of the lock to unlock the door, numbers or letters being provided and usable in the presettable combination; the fluid is subjected to pressure by a pump to effect withdrawal of pistons from the locking once the preset combination has been set to the preselected combination; the fluid is fed to the lock by a valved manifold which also controls the back flow of the fluid from the lock to the reservoir and works in association with the presettable combination to unlock or lock the door; and locking of the door is accomplished by the action of springs in the lock an
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1979
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1982
    Inventor: Renato Cacioni