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US 6,047,577 AGranted
Abnormal use indicator for door lock
OwnerFrank Klimasinventor
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Abstract
A door lock particularly suited for an apartment or condominium where the resident has an entry key and management personnel also have a key that will allow access to the apartment, the door lock having a spring loaded axial pin which is retained in an externally visible position when the lock is actuated by the resident's key and which is released to an externally non-visible position when the lock is actuated by the management key.
Claims8
In a door lock having,
- a cylinder housing for mounting within a door,
- a cylinder disposed for rotation within the housing,
- a row of radial channels in the housing,
- a matching row of radial channels in the cylinder, and
- spring loaded pins of selected lengths slidably disposed within said channels and adapted to be radially positioned by a profile section of a first selected key to permit rotation of the cylinder within the housing,
- the improvement comprising:
- at least one other channel radially disposed in the housing and in the cylinder at an angle apart from the first rows of channels,
- a further pin member slidably disposed in said other radial channel, the position of which is determined by the engaging surface of a second selected key,
- a spring loaded axial pin assembly disposed for axial movement within the housing, and
- restraining means urged radially outwardly by the further pin member for holding the axial pin assembly in an externally visible position,
- said restraining means being moved out of engagement with said axial pin assembly upon radial inward movement of the further pin member when engaged with a depressed profile section of the second selected key, allowing the release of the spring loaded axial pin assembly to the externally non-visible position in the door.
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