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US 3,946,172 AGranted
Latching apparatus
AssigneeRank Xerox Ltd.
InventorPeter M. Thorp
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Abstract
A latching apparatus including a housing having an aperture therein for receiving a key. Insertion of the key into the housing aperture rotates an actuating member from an open position to a closed position.
Claims10
A latching apparatus, including:
- a key member;
- a housing having an aperture therein to receive said key member, said housing defining a chamber in communication with the aperture therein;
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- an actuating member mounted rotatably in the chamber of said housing and having a recessed portion therein for receiving said key member, said actuating member being rotated from an opened position with the recessed portion therein substantially aligned with the aperture in said housing to a closed position wherein a portion of said actuating member substantially blocks the aperture in said housing, said key member being arranged to engage the recessed portion of said actuating member to rotate said actuating member from the opened position to the closed position securing said key member in the aperture of said housing with a portion thereof extending outwardly therefrom so that removal of said key member returns said actuating member to the opened position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.