Combination locks and dial-indexing spring therefor

For use on a luggage case to hold a lid of the case locked closed, left and right combination locks, each lock having a housing, a shaft supported in the housing, a plurality of combination dials supported for rotation on the shaft, each dial having sequential combination indicia spaced about its periphery and having indexing notches spaced about its periphery and disposed so that an indexing notch is located between each pair of successive indicia, the housing having slots through which corresponding dials protrude and through which the combination indicia of the dials are exposed to view, the combination indicia of the dials of both locks having the same viewing orientation and having the same sequence as the dials are turned in the same direction, each lock having latch means operable by a manual actuator to an open position only when the dials are turned to a predetermined orientation, the latch means of the left and right locks, as perceived by the user, operating as mirror images of each other but comprising parts that are substantially identical, the locks also having substantially identical dial-indexing springs, each including a generally rectangular base, and a pair of resilient arms for each of the dials, respectively, the arms of each pair originating at opposite edge regions of the base and extending away from said opposite edge regions of the base toward each other and toward the periphery of the corresponding dial and having free ends engaging successive indexing notches of the corresponding dial.