Telephone moveable cradle lock
AssigneeBurroughs Corporation
InventorKurt E. Hellwig
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Abstract
A locking device for telecommunications transceivers includes a key operated lock cylinder contained in a frame designed to fit between a transceiver's side mounted cradle and the opposed side of the transceiver's base, a latch bar attached to the lock cylinder and rotatable with the lock cylinder to engage the cradle in such a manner as the frame may not be removed, the frame acting as a wedge which holds the cradle down and keeps the transceiver electrically inactive.
Claims16
A device for securing a telecommunications transceiver in an electrically inactive state, said transceiver characterized as having a cradle mounted on a side of its base, said transceiver in an electrically inactive state when said cradle is in a depressed position, said device comprising:
- frame means, insertable between said cradle and the base of said transceiver without disassembly of said transceiver, said frame means for depressing and holding said cradle in said depressed position;
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- locking means, fixed to said frame means, said locking means for preventing the removal of said frame means from said transceiver, said locking means including
- a circular type lock, and
- a latch bar, connected to the cylinder of said lock and rotatable to engage said latch bar under and against said cradle, thereby preventing the removal of said device from said transceiver.
A device for use with a Call Director telephone set to prohibit anyone from using the set while it is unattended, said device comprising:
- frame means, insertable between the vertical portions of the switchhook arms and the base of the telephone set without disassembly of said telephone set, said frame means for depressing and holding the switchhook arms in a depressed position;
- a circular type lock mounted on said frame means, said lock secured to said frame to hinder its removal;
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- a latch bar connected to the rotatable portion of said lock.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.