Press-style auxiliary lock
OwnerI-Li Huanginventor
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Abstract
A press-style auxiliary lock for a door, a cabinet, a drawer, etc. is not used for anti-theft, or anti-prying open, but only used for secured to its place, not self-opening, not swaying or vibrating by external environmental condition. It includes a press member to push a drive means to rise and push up an engage means, which cannot then move down, and also bringing interactive rods rotate to extend hooks out of the lock to rotate and hook to achieve inserting engagement and hooking engagement by a single press action. When it is not pressed in, an object provided with the lock is normally secured in its place, and when pressed once, it may be secured to its place by inserting engagement and hooking engagement.
Claims1
A press-style auxiliary lock comprising an outer housing and an inner housing, an engage means fixed in said outer housing and said inner housing to protrude up, a drive means possible to rise up and to let a hook rotate, a press member and a grip connected to said press member for controlling said drive means to rise up, a position guide plate with a guide rail to guide said press member in moving and securing to its place, two interactive rods moving and rotating with said drive means, a decorative cap closing on a press hole of an object to fix said auxiliary lock, a connect rod connected between said interactive rods and said hooks, and a passive rod fixed on said object to be hooked:
- said outer housing and said inner housing combined together integral, a hollow cylinder fixed on a front side of said outer housing to combine with said press member and said grip, said hollow cylinder having two opposite projecting blocks inside for said press member to insert in a gap between said two projecting blocks, said hollow cylinder having a curved groove formed in a lower inner wall for said position guide plate to combine with, said outer housing further having a position room respectively provided at two sides to combine a left and a right interactive rod, said outer housing having a semicircular aperture formed respectively in two side walls for connect rods between said interactive rods and hooks to insert therein:
- said outer housing and said inner housing combined together integral, said inner housing having a drive means room for containing said drive means, a position room formed at two sides of said drive means room for containing said interactive rods, a semicircular aperture formed in two side walls for said connect rods between said interactive rods and said hooks to extend therein, said inner housing having an aperture formed in a front upper surface for said engage means to move in and out:
- said press member having said grip fixed on its front side, and a guide block formed on an upper side, a guide groove respectively formed at two sides for said projecting blocks of said hollow cylinder to engage, said press member having a slope in a rear portion for said drive means to rise up along, said press member having a guide block formed under a lower edge to fit and move in said guide rail of said position guide plate, and a coil spring placed between said press member and an inner wall of said inner housing:
- said engage means having a hole respectively opening downward in two sides for said coil springs located between said engage means and said drive means to fit therein, and a hollow room in a front half portion for said drive means to fit therein when said drive means is raised:
- said drive means having a top block to rise and extend in said engage means to push up said engage means and an aperture respectively formed in two lower sides for projecting posts of said interactive rods to fit and stabilized, said drive means having two curved contact surfaces at two sides of a center hole to contact with and move up and down said slope of said press member, a hole opening upward formed respectively at two sides for said coil springs between said engage means and said drive means to fit therein:
- said interactive rods having a projecting post formed inside to fit in said aperture of said drive means, an inner insert hole formed in an outer side for one end of said connect rod between said interactive rods and said hook to fit in:
- a restrain plate provided for said engage means to engage with, having an engage edge protruding out with a preset length, said engage edge having a sloped surface or a curved surface each at two sides,
- said position plate controlling said press member in pressing in to stabilize and pressing again to release to move up, having said guide rail of sealed curved routes, said guide rail having four points of A, B, C and O, said three points A, B C forming a triangle, said three points B, O, C forming another triangle, a side AB
- being longer than a side OB (AB>OB), a side AC being longer than OC (AC>OC), a side BC being common for said two triangles, said points B and O having respectively a recess and a guide angle located opposite to said two recesses:
- said hooks respectively clamped by a position constrictor in its place, having one end formed with an insert hole for one end of said connect rod between said interactive rods and said hook to insert:
- said passive rod hooked by said hook having a lower ratchet-shaped portion and a front portion formed to have a certain length and a certain outer diameter:
- said lower guide block of said press member located at said A point of said position plate and said drive means being not raised up with its curved contact surface located near under said slope of said press member to let said engage means freely extend or shrink by means of said coil springs according to opening or closing of a door, a cabinet or a drawer so that said auxiliary lock may be easily opened or closed when said grip being not yet pressed in, said drive means being raised up along said slope of said press member and pushing up said engage means, said aperture carrying said interactive rods at two sides to rotate for a preset angle to let said connect rod carrying said hooks at two ends to hook said passive rods at the same time when said grip together with said press member is pressed in.
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