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US 4,379,394 AGranted
Key holder
AssigneeAisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMinoru Toyoda
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Abstract
A key holder which includes a body and a key pivotably mounted on the body and movable between an operating position in which the key is disposed outside of the body and a non-operating position in which the key is housed within the body. The key holder may also include a biasing member for maintaining the key at the operating position thereof or the non-operating position thereof and the key may include a stopper member disposed thereon which is engageable with the body to maintain the key at the non-operating position thereof.
Claims7
A pendant type key holder comprising:
- a body having supported lugs including concave portions, said body and supporting lugs extending in a single plane;
- a key having opposite side portions and being pivotably mounted on said body and rotatable out of said plane between an operating position in which the key is disposed in said plane and outside said body and a non-operating position in which the key is in said plane and is housed within said lugs of said body;
- said key further comprises stopper means attached to at least one of said opposite side portions and adapted to pressure engage with said concave portions to thereby maintain the key at the non-operating position thereof;
- whereby the key can freely rotate except when said concave portions engage said stopper means in the non-operating position.
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