Loose leaf binder lift lock
AssigneeSouth Park Sales & Mfg., Inc.
InventorJames Pinkney
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Abstract
A loose leaf binder lift lock having a tubular body with a tapered front end, a tubular locking ball carrier mounted in the body and carrying a plurality of locking balls and movable between a ball locking position and a ball unlocking position, a retainer spring for releasably retaining the ball carrier in the tubular body in the ball locking position but permitting disassembly of the ball carrier from the body, a pull ring stud carried by the ball carrier, and a detachably mounted pull ring carried on the pull ring stud for moving the ball carrier to the ball unlocking position.
Claims8
A loose leaf binder lift lock having a tubular body, a tubular locking ball carrier movably mounted in the body and carrying a plurality of locking balls in one end for locking engagement with a locking rod attached to the rear cover of a loose leaf binder, a pull ring stud mounted in the other end of the ball carrier, a retainer spring for retaining the ball carrier, and a pull ring attached to the pull ring stud for moving the ball carrier to a ball unlocking position, characterized in that:
- (a) the pull ring stud has a longitudinal slot, having an outer end and an inner end, formed on each of a pair of diametrical opposite sides and spaced transversely apart by a central rib;
- (b) each of said longitudinal slots having a communicating entrance slot at the inner end thereof;
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- (c) the pull ring has a pair of attachment arms, with their inner ends spaced apart from each other, and with each attachment arm detachably mounted in one of the longitudinal slots, and movable into or out of the longitudinal slots through the entrance slots when the ball carrier is moved to the unlocking position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.