Abstract: A high security drop-bolt lock assembly for a door includes a cylinder lock carried by a guard plate positionable on the outside of the door with the cylinder lock within the door, and a drop-bolt assembly on the inside of the door. The drop-bolt assembly is connected to protected studs extending from the guard plate to make a strong unitary construction extremely difficult to defeat and protecting the cylinder lock behind the guard plate and within the door.

Abstract: A key-in-knob type cylinder replacement system comprises a replacement cylinder having a generally cylindrical shell and a plug having a keyway and housing pin means to prevent the rotation of the plug. A false bible dimensioned to be generally commensurate in size and shape to the projecting pin housing of the cylinder to be replaced is mounted to the cylinder shell. An adaptor means for actuating the latch assembly in response to rotation of the replacement plug is secured to the replacement cylinder plug by means of a clip. A replacement kit provides a plurality of false bibles and adaptor means, each of which is adapted to be mounted to the plug of the plug-shell combination to form a replacement for a conventional key-in-knob cylinder.

Abstract: An improved deadbolt lockset is provided in which one of two different backset distances is facilitated in a single latch assembly. At least one planar side plate coupled to a deadbolt extension is provided and is slidably contained within a hollow latch case. Movement of the side plate determines the distance from the face plate of the assembly to the axis of an actuating assembly. The latch case includes slots formed therein for positioning the actuating assembly and to allow movement of the side plates.

Abstract: There is disclosed a secured door knob and escutcheon assembly, wherein the assembly is protected against tampering and unauthorized removal from either side of a door, when said door is in the closed position. The assembly includes a knob arrangement having mounting means which includes a bearing sleeve that is threadably engaged with a mounting plate affixed to the door. Rotation of said bearing sleeve is precluded by an apertured escutcheon plate through which said bearing sleeve is engaged. The bearing sleeve and escutcheon aperture have complementary flats or non-round surfaces such that when the escutcheon is in place rotation of the bearing sleeve is precluded. Further, the escutcheon plate is held in place by holding means that can only be released when the door is opened. In the disclosed embodiment the holding means is a key cylinder engaged through a second aperture in the escutcheon plate and fixed in place by a set screw mounted in the edge face of the door.

Abstract: A lock for a sliding window or door and having a body which is adapted to be secured to either an outwardly facing surface or a laterally facing surface of the movable frame of the window or door. The lock includes a locking bar which is slidably mounted on the lock body for relative movement into and out of an operative position at which it projects beyond a back surface of the lock body and engages within a hole in the fixed frame of the window or door. The lock body is secured to the movable frame by means of fastening screws extending through bores formed through a mounting part of the body and those bores include primary bores which extend in the front to back direction and secondary bores which extend laterally through the mounting part. The primary bores are used if the body is to be secured to the outwardly facing frame surface and the secondary bores are used if the body is to be secured to the laterally facing frame surface.

Abstract: An improved lock cylinder assembly is mountable in a lock case and includes a lock body having an exterior side wall. The lock cylinder assembly is mountable in the lock case and fixable in a selected position therein by a rotation-blocking side setscrew, and a cylinder-anchoring hidden setscrew. The lock body is formed to include a cavity for the reception of an interchangeable lock core, at least one elongated channel having a longitudinal axis, the central including an opening in the exterior side wall for the reception of the side setscrew, and a bore having a longitudinal axis for the reception of a hidden setscrew. The bore extends between the lock body cavity and the exterior side wall to define an opening in the exterior side wall of the lock body. Each channel opening and the exterior bore opening are situated in circumferentially spaced-apart relation on the exterior side wall of the lock body.

Abstract: A cylindrical lock on a door panel has an outside actuating lever and an outside nut. Torque from both the nut and the outside lever is transferred to a substantially planar torque plate engaging the door panel and having a central opening bounded by arcuate edge surfaces spaced away from external threads on the lock hub. The central opening is also bounded by chordal edge surfaces disposed next to chordal surfaces on the lock hub. The nut has chordal surfaces next to the chordal surfaces of the torque plate and has arcuate surfaces close to the arcuate surfaces of the torque plate, all of such surfaces being in the plane of the torque plate.

Abstract: A cylinder lock is mounted in an aperture in a panel by means of a retaining ring which has resilient teeth to grip a part of the lock housing which protrudes from the panel. A further ring defining a non-circular aperture is provided in the opening of the panel to co-operate with flats on the lock housing and prevent rotation of the housing in the panel. The lock comprises a main body portion and a hollow spigot projecting from the main body portion and a key receiving member disposed in the spigot wherein the spigot defines an opening at an open end of the spigot remote from the main body portion. The key receiving member defines a key slot which is adjacent the open end of the spigot. The main body portion overlaps a marginal portion of the panel adjacent the panel opening defined thereby and the spigot extends through the aperture from the main body portion and projects from the panel at a second side thereof.

Abstract: A door stile lock has a rotary latch bar. The rotary latch bar contains a compression loaded anvil within its interior. The latch bar rotates about the lock cylinder housing. The housing is provided with retention ports for engaging the compression loaded anvil at selected positions to inhibit rotation of the latch bar when the anvil is so engaged. Interior of the cylinder housing is an actuator rotatable by the lock key. The actuator raises the anvil from the retention ports and drives the latch bar about the axis of the cylinder housing between nominal locked and unlocked positions of the latch bar. The compression loaded anvil engages the retention ports in the cylinder housing at both the nominal locked and unlocked positions. A lock body engages the cylinder housing in a non-rotating manner. The lock body is then compressively engaged within the door stile.

Abstract: A deadbolt lock is adaptable for installation in doors of various thicknesses. The lock body and interior rosette are established at a fixed position with respect to the interior surface of the door in which the lock is mounted. A cylindrical threaded coupler is threaded to an extension of the exterior keyway-carrying rosette of the lock and the coupling between the threaded cylinder and the threaded extension of the rosette are adjusted in accordance with the thickness of the door to which the lock is installed. The interior threaded coupling cylinder is then inserted within the bore of the lock, the mounting being achieved without interference with the deadbolt throw/retract mechanism interior of the lock body.

Abstract: A lock body having compressive engagement with the interior of a hollow structural member of a door, such as a hollow stile. A compressive element is coupled to the lock body by means of a screw fastener. The compressive element has limited rotation about the axis of the screw fastener; the friction of the threaded coupling between the screw fastener and the compression element causing the compression element to rotate about the axis of the screw fastener. Such rotation is limited to approximately 90.degree. by an abutment stop provided on the body of the lock. When the compression element is drawn into abutting contact with the stopping abutment, continued actuation of the screw fastener causes the compression element to traverse the axis of the screw fastener.

Abstract: In a deadbolt gate lock having an elongated casing, a manually reciprocal deadbolt mounted within the casing and projectable therefrom, an actuator pin connected to the deadbolt and extending outwardly through an elongated slot in the casing, and a push button plunger lock mounted within the casing having a spring bolt retainingly engageable within the deadbolt for securing the deadbolt in a projected position; the improvement which comprises a pair of spaced aligned spacer blocks snugly nested and retained within the casing, having aligned bores guidably receiving the deadbolt, the blocks retainingly engaging the plunger lock. A removable set screw on the plunger normally prevents its removal from the plunger lock, the casing having an access opening in registry with the set screw when the plunger lock is unlocked.

Abstract: An insert for positioning between the facing sheets of laminated doors to define lock installation openings and to prevent foamed-in-situ filler material from flowing into lock installation openings during foaming of the door cavity. The insert includes a door edge plate which occupies a portion of the edge of the door, and a receptacle which extends inwardly from the edge plate to locations between the facing sheets. The edge plate defines a plurality of openings, each of a size and shape large enough to accommodate a standard-sized lock bolt assembly. The openings are covered by membranes, any one of which can be removed to permit the receptacle to be attached to the edge plate. The receptacle defines an opening of sufficient size to accommodate standard-sized, door-knob-type lock assembly. An adapter may be installed within the opening of the receptacle to accommodate differently sized lock hardware. All of the insert components can be formed inexpensively using plastics injection-molding techniques.

Abstract: The invention relates to a rotatable connection device for a driving part (1) to a driven part (2), wherein the driven part has a rotational play relative to the driving part. The driving part (1) exhibits at least two axial elastic dogs (3, 4) which end in radial teeth (5, 6) and cooperate with circular arcuate slots (8, 9) in the driven part (2), which exhibit enlarged regions (11, 13) for the passage of the radial teeth (5, 6), and with a securing part (14). This securing part (14) is provided with holes (15, 16) to receive the elastic dogs (3, 4), and a bendable strap (17, 18), which is present at each hole (15, 16), after being bent behind the dogs (3, 4), comes into abutment opposite the teeth (5, 6) at their ends. Any accidental disassembly is prevented by this means.

Abstract: In an attachment fitting for cylinder locks (3, 3') the heads (4a) of a plurality of screws (4) are seated in a widened hole portion (5a) in the lock. A plugging or latching element (6) is arranged to co-act with a sealing pin (7) in a manner such that when the plug (3a) of the cylinder lock (3) is turned to a given position by means of a key, the sealing pin (7) moves inwardly in a peripheral hole (9) arranged in the plug, against the action of a spring (10). This enables the plugging or latching element (6) to be removed. Because of the presence of the plugging or latching element (6), however, the screw heads (4a) cannot be reached in order to loosen the screws by persons not having the correct key to the cylinder lock. The screws connect the cylinder lock (3) to a further cylinder lock (3') on the other side of the door.

Abstract: There is disclosed an assembly comprising a workpiece panel having an opening, a cover plate for the opening and blind securement means including resiliently interengageable elements on the panel and the cover plate constructed for enabling the cover plate to be assembled from the outside of the panel and to permit initial insertion through the opening without substantial interference between the interengageable elements.

Abstract: A lock cylinder attaching device is of the type for use in a vehicle movable closure lock and comprises a support for attaching an inner end of a lock cylinder to a vehicle body member in addition to means for attaching the outer end of the lock cylinder to the vehicle body member.

Abstract: An improved lock mechanism whereby the raised element, or rosette, provided exteriorly for defining the keyway and providing secured access thereto is coupled to the lock body by mechanical means utilizing rigid interference fit lock mechanisms. Latch pins are emplaced within tapered latch recesses and the latch pins coupled one to another. A locking pin is driven into interference relationship with at least one of the latching pins to bar its movement within the latching recess and, thus, due to the fact that all latching pins are coupled one to another, an extremely strong coupling of the rosette to the lock body results.

Abstract: Door-barring lock apparatus has a bar member rotatably mounted to the wall near the doorway. When in a transverse or generally horizontal position, this bar member projects into the doorway for engaging the inside of the door near the opposite margin from the hinges for advantageously, positively barring the door against opening inwardly. By manipulation of a handle located inside of the building near the bar member, a person inside of the building can de-couple the bar from a locking rod extending through the wall to the outside of the building. Such de-coupling enables the person inside of the building to rotate the bar into an upright position for freeing the door to allow the door to be opened, regardless of whether this rod is locked against rotation. A lock assembly accessible from the outside of the building normally serves to lock the rod against rotation for normally locking the bar member in its transverse door-barring position.

Abstract: A safe deposit-type lock assembly having a fabricated metal cover plate and interchangeable lock noses or insert guides to provide the desired combination of big and little noses. The noses are cast metal provided with a universal size base having locking elements for engaging the cover plate. The locking elements include bayonet-type wings engaging the top surface of the cover plate and locking wedges engaging beneath resilient retainer arms stamped from the cover plate. A locking detent is provided between the retainer arms and the mating locking wedges. The safe deposit door is positioned flush on top of the retainer arms and wings to assure engagement of the detent once the lock is positioned on the back of the door. The heads of the lock plugs are received in the noses providing the desired match for previously installed boxes.

Abstract: An antitheft device for the steering shaft of a motor vehicle is provided and has a resiliently urged locking or keying member (30) carried by an inner, non-rotatable tubular body (12). The locking or keying member (30) is deflected (32) in one direction to permit assembly of the inner tubular body (12) in an outer housing (10) of the device. The locking or keying member (30) is resiliently urged (32) into seating relationship in a radial opening (26) in the housing (10) when the inner tubular body (12) is in proper position in the housing (10). The locking or keying member (30) is deflected (32) in another direction to permit assembly of a cylinder lock (14) in said tubular body (12). The locking or keying member (30) is resiliently urged (32) into seating relationship in an aligned radial opening (28) in the cylinder lock (14) when the cylinder lock (14) is properly positioned in said inner tubular body (12).

Abstract: An automobile door assembly having a door locking device wherein the door locking device can be installed only from the outside of the door outer panel.

Abstract: The latch assembly is provided with a locking collar and a pair of knockouts so that the latch assembly can be easily converted to a latch-lock assembly by simply inserting a cylinder lock in the proper knockout, depending upon whether the assembly is used in a right-hand or left-hand installation. The conversion of the assembly may be made before or after installation of the latch-lock assembly.

Abstract: The invention relates to a cylindrical lock of the type comprising a barrel journalling in the bore of a body.In the lock to which the invention relates, the peripheral surface of the barrel and the surface of the bore in the body comprise an assembly consisting of an elastic longitudinal tongue and a shoulder which are respectively integral with the said two surfaces and which are arranged in such a manner that the said elastic tongue interacts with the said shoulder to lock the barrel so that it cannot move longitudinally in relation to the body.Application to the car industry.

Abstract: A bracket for mounting a closure such as a lock on a door which is difficult to pierce, such as a glass door, comprises a pair of platens on opposite sides of each edge of the door. The platens of one pair are secured to the platens of the other pair, on opposite sides of the door, by tightening elements which can be straps whose ends are interconnected by screw-threaded bolts, or long screw-threaded pins in the case of a narrow door. Covering bands are slidable in slideways on the platens to cover the platens and tightening elements, and stops are detachably secureable to the edges of the doors to retain these covering bands.

Abstract: A bolt assembly used for locking and unlocking a door-leaf, which comprises a bolt movable from the outside by a key introduced into the barrel of a safety cylinder, the housing of the barrel comprising a flange which can be immobilized in rotation and translation by three plates fixed to the outer surface of the door by bolt means, a fourth plate covering said bolt means. This plate is treated against drilling, and the last three plates are soldered to each other and lodged in a housing.By loosening the bolt means and removing the first plate, the safety cylinder can be replaced.

Abstract: A door lock including a mounting structure secured to a door, a bolt movable into an extended position in which it projects from an edge of the door, a lock cylinder for operating the bolt, and a holder in which the cylinder is mounted. A retaining mechanism, accessible through a release aperture on the edge of the door when the door is open, normally secures the holder to the mounting structure but permits the holder to be released to remove the cylinder.The retaining mechanism can include a latch member that is engageable with the holder under the urging of a spring to prevent the holder from being removed from the mounting structure. Mutually engagable cam surfaces carried by the holder and the latch member cause movement of the latch member to permit installation of the holder. Alternatively, the latch member can be a screw, eliminating the need for a spring to urge it toward the holder.

Abstract: A lock plate (2) is secured to a door (1) or the like, by means of two upper and two lower securing means (4,5). A recess formed in one side edge (1b) of the door is arranged to accommodate a lock housing (10) having a lock pillar (12) which covers the recess. The lock pillar (12) is secured by an upper and a lower screw (6) which simultaneously serve as anchoring elements to lock the plate securing means against rotation. Each of the securing means comprises a screw-thread (5) provided with an opening or recess (5d) and co-operating with a screw element (4) which is non-rotatably received in a hole in the plate (2). Each of the anchoring screws (6) is passed through two screw-threaded sleeves (5) provided with recesses and located on mutually the same level. The anchoring screws (6) co-act with two sleeve parts (7,8) which partially surround said screws, of which sleeve parts one (7) is screw-threaded for engagement with the screw thread.

Abstract: A key-removable lock core of the same size as a standard core, to fit standard core receptacles, and having a key plug of improved pull resistance. The core body of figure-8 cross section has a key plug lobe which contains a sleeve having a core retainer lug movable by a control key between a projected core retaining position and a retracted core release position. A key plug having an enlarged rear head is inserted from the rear into the cylindrical bore defined by the sleeve, with the head overlapping the rear of both the sleeve and the key plug lobe of the body. A segment is inserted in a slot traversing the key slot and is trapped therein by the sleeve to form a key stop. The key plug is held in place by a C-shaped retaining ring in a circumferential groove in such plug at the front face of the body, and is trapped in place by a face plate fixed to the body by a blind annular rivet.

Abstract: The invention relates to anti-theft devices for automobile vehicles in which such devices are fixed on the steering column of the vehicle and the aim of the invention is to provide anti-theft steering device which can be adapted to steering column of differing diameters while retaining the necessary security of the fixing. The device comprises a casing containing a locking bolt operated by a security lock and a base to which the casing is secured by means of screws with breakaway heads. The base has a half bore corresponding to the steering column to be equipped with the device and is secured by a flexible member whose first end is selectively fixed by a pin at one of several discrete locations and whose other end is secured to the base in an adjustable manner.

Abstract: A key operated dead bolt lock includes one or a pair of standard threaded mortise cylinders. The lock further includes set screws, inaccessible from either side of a door in which the lock is installed, which prevent rotation of the cylinders. The cylinders hold cylinder collars in place to prevent access to the bolt from the side.

Abstract: A lockset having a rim mounted latch bolt and a dead bolt arranged in side-by-side relation on a door for engagement within side-by-side openings in a common strike. The dead bolt projects from an edge of the door and is operated from the inside by a turnpiece assembly and from the outside by a key operated lock cylinder mounted in fixed position relative to the door. Inside and outside lever handles journalled for limited angular movement on the turnpiece assembly and on the lock cylinder, respectively, operate the latch bolt from the inner and outer side of the door. The turnpiece assembly is connected to the lock cylinder and the inside lever handle is connected to the outside lever handle through a single transverse bore formed in the door. The present lockset may be installed on a door to replace a cylindrical lockset of key-in-knob type having a single latch bolt without boring an additional hole in the door.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a door handle lock and latch mechanism for a corrugated roller shutter door wherein the door handle is situated some distance up from the bottom of the door.The door handle and lock is situated in a corrugation which is open to the front face of the door and the latch mechanism is located in an adjacent corrugation(s) open to the rear face of the door. The latch mechanism attaches to the lock mechanism through an opening in either or both of the top or bottom wall of the corrugation in which the lock is situated.

Abstract: A door lock including a support member formed from a pair of spaced, generally parallel sides and an end wall interconnecting the sides. A shiftable, spring biased lock bolt is carried between the sides and movable through an opening in the end wall and into locked relationship to a door strike when the door is closed. Several embodiments of the structure for moving the lock bolt away from the door strike are disclosed including the following: a rotatable shaft having a knob at each end and provided with a projection extending into a recess in the lock bolt; a pair of L-shaped levers pivotally mounted on respective sides of the support member and having respective pins in respective slots of the door lock bolt; and a shiftable plate projecting laterally from the sides of the support member and having a pin received within a camming slot through the lock bolt.

Abstract: An improved lock is provided for hinged glass doors which can be attached to the doors without the need for attachment screws and the like. The lock includes a pair of coacting casings which include suction-type securing means for attaching the casings to the respective doors. The first casing comprises a single piece integral metal housing which is open on one side and includes a locking mechanism, having an associated lock bolt, which is disposed in and occupies approximately one-half of the housing, the other half being empty. The second casing member comprises a base portion which is similar to the first housing and includes, in addition, an "upper" or overlying portion which extends parallel to the base portion and is affixed thereto by an upstanding wall located in approximately the middle of the base portion.

Abstract: An improved lock assembly includes a sleeve which is attached to a drawer or door by an original equipment manufacturer of desks, cabinets or the like. A cylinder lock may be installed in the sleeve by insertion in the sleeve with a retainer member. The retainer member includes a tab cooperative with a slot in the lock and an arm which projects through a slot in the sleeve to engage a tang on the sleeve that holds the retainer sleeve and lock together in assembly.

Abstract: A simulated deadlock for doors simulates and has the physical form of only that portion of a genuine deadlock which extends beyond the outer or exposed plane of the door. The simulation comprises a hollow plastic shell which outwardly reproduces the contours and color of a genuine deadlock but which terminates rearwardly in a flat plate having an adhesive thereon by which the simulation is secured to the door without piercing the door. Unauthorized entry is thus discouraged at a much lower cost than if a genuine deadlock were installed.

Abstract: A mounting plate having three knockouts for three bolt locations of a deadbolt lock is mounted behind a rectangular opening in the edge of a hollow door. A filler plate and a cover plate are provided to cover the unused ones of the knockouts. When no deadbolt lock is installed in the door, the entire filler and cover plates are used to substantially fill the rectangular opening. When a dead bolt is installed in the door, a knockout is removed to leave an opening at the proper location for the bolt to pass through. The deadbolt lock bore drilling is made on the selected centerline either by the distributor or installer. The filler and cover plates are broken along weakened separation lines and appropriate portions thereof are attached to the mounting plate to cover the unused knockout locations. An adjustable backset lockset mounting arrangement is mounted adjacent the rectangular opening to receive and support the lockset in either of two positions. Breakouts in the door are preformed.

Abstract: A door knob is machined from solid stock to provide a tubular neck, an intermediate portion which is internally recessed to reduce its wall thickness, and a solid-section end portion having a large axial end opening which provides tool access for recessing the mid-portion and clears the pin tumbler lobe of a key-removable core mounted in the knob sleeve with its key plug concentric with the knob. The end opening has an axially-outward facing shoulder and an adjacent radially-inward opening groove. A knob locating, bevelled-edge ring lies against the shoulder with its edge partially closing the mouth of the groove. An end face member having a peripheral bevelled skirt is pressed into the end opening and against the edge of the ring so as to deform the skirt outward into the groove and thereby secure both the end face member and the ring in the knob. The end face member may have an opening for a core mounted in the knob sleeve, or for other usual knob accessories, or may completely close the end of the knob.

Abstract: A locking device for a pair of skis having a first and second attachment mountable on respective skis. The first attachment includes a locking bolt which is positioned flush with the underside of the ski in a retracted position and is projected substantially beyond the underside of said ski in an extended position. A head portion of the lock bolt is received through an orifice of a second attachment and includes a lock surface for mating with end wall surrounding the orifice. The lock bolt head is rotated to a locked position by a lock means which is operated by a tumbler. A bolt is threadably received into an opening formed from the upper to the lower surface of each ski and provides a mounting for a housing portion of each attachment.

Abstract: Window fastener having a rotatable gear engaging an actuating member formed with a rack and a method of installing.

Abstract: A lock cylinder housing assembly is received in a through bore of a door and coupled therein without the use of external or internal machine screws. A coacting dead bolt assembly in a bore formed in the door at right angles to the through bore bridges the through bore and extends through a transverse passage of the housing assembly to prevent rotation of the assembly or disassembling thereof from the exterior or interior of the door. A catch release mechanism on the dead bolt assembly is accessible only when the door is open to allow releasing of the catch means which allows removal and disassembly of the housing assembly at the inner side of the door.

Abstract: A lockable securing device including a bifurcated body having a pair of outwardly extended, spaced, parallel arms. A slotted opening is formed between the arms. Transverse apertures are provided in the arms near their outer ends and are sized to receive a removable, axial locking device. The locking device has an extension member at one end which is arranged to extend across the slotted opening to block the opening and retain an object within the slot when the axial lock is inserted and retained within said body arms. In one embodiment the slotted lock is used to secure the frame of a bicycle to an anchored object to prevent unauthorized removal; another is a door handle.

Abstract: In a door lock assembly, a lock cylinder is releasably fastened within a lock cylinder housing by means of a catch affixed to the lock cylinder and operatively associated with a structure, such as a lock bolt assembly, within the lock cylinder housing. The catch is released by means of an actuating pin passing from the side edge of the door into the lock cylinder housing for disengaging the catch and allowing the lock cylinder to be removed from its housing. The pin, in a preferred embodiment, is carried within the lock bolt.

Abstract: A heavy duty cylindrical lock set adaptable for various "functions" and having improved features, especially to permit a key-removable lock core to be reversible in its knob mounting to suit right- and left-hand doors. A knob sleeve of large diameter is slotted and shaped at its knob receiving end to form two diametrically-opposed channel sections of high strength and rigidity. The inward edges of the four channel side legs form a mounting seat to receive the key-plug-containing body of the core on the axis of the knob, while the two spaces between the channel sections permit the pin-tumbler lobe or section of the core to extend radially in either of two orientations about the axis of the knob. Two of the channel side edges are notched to engage a key-controlled retaining lug of the core. The knob has a large bore in its outer end and is supported from the knob sleeve by a drive ring which accomodates the core in both orientations. A face plate is held in the knob bore by the core and closes the knob bore.

Abstract: In a door bolt lock a tubular housing extends through a bore in the door near the edge thereof for housing at least one lock cylinder assembly coupled in mechanical operative association with a lock bolt assembly passing from the edge of the door into the tubular housing via an intersecting bore in the door. The tubular housing includes first and second axially separable coaxially aligned portions having flanges on their outer ends for capturing the door therebetween. The first and second tubular housing portions are threadably coupled together either directly or via a threaded insert, whereby the length of the housing is adjustable for accommodating doors of various thicknesses and whereby the two halves of the lock cylinder housing are coupled together by means of a relatively strong threaded tubular structure to make it more difficult to break apart the two halves of the housing.

Abstract: An espagnolette lock having an actuating nut which is rotatably supported in a lock box and in a lock box cover, which includes a rectangular through-aperture for receiving a rectangular arbor, and a slot formed in one side of the nut body of the nut for receiving the key bit of a cipher key. A sleeve is fastened to the lock box cover, which is adapted to extend into a circular aperture formed in the door or the like, and in which the sleeve is provided with guide slots and/or projections for receiving and securely fastening different types of actuating members or fittings for the lock, and their respective guide and covering sleeves.