Locking device with passage
AssigneeACCO Brands USA LLC
InventorsGuillermo Andres, Lambert Kuo
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Abstract
A lock device for use with a key is disclosed. The lock device includes a locking spindle including a plurality of locking spindle bores and a passage extending axially along an axial length of the locking spindle, and a driver structure including a plurality of driver structure bores. An interface between the driver structure and the locking spindle forms a shear line. The lock device also includes a plurality of combination pins in the plurality of locking spindle bores, and a plurality of driver pins in the driver structure bores in the driver structure, the plurality of driver pins being respectively associated with the plurality of combination pins.
Claims15
-20. (canceled)
A lock device for use with a key with an extended portion, the lock device comprising:
- a locking spindle including a passage extending axially along an axial length of the locking spindle;
- a driver structure, wherein an interface between the driver structure and the locking spindle forms a shear line;
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- a locking member coupled to a distal end of the locking spindle,
- wherein the passage extends to the shear line and the extended portion of the key fills the passage to the shear line when the key is used to turn the locking spindle.
A locking apparatus comprising:
- a lock device comprising a locking spindle including a passage extending axially along an axial length of the locking spindle, a locking member coupled to a distal end of the locking spindle, a driver structure, wherein an interface between the driver structure and the locking spindle forms a shear line and the passage extends through the locking spindle to the shear line;
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- a key including a coded portion and an extended portion, wherein the extended portion is configured to fit in the passage and serves to temporarily provide a solid surface for the locking spindle at the shear line while the key is inserted into the lock device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.