Paddle lock
AssigneeS.P.E.P. Acquisition Corp.
InventorRodolfo Linares
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Abstract
A paddle lock. The paddle lock has a housing with a well, a lock with locked and unlocked positions that is attached to the housing and a cam connected to the lock with the cam having a locking portion and an unlocking portion. A cam spring biases the cam to the locking position and the lock to the locked position. A handle is movably connected to the housing between which biases the handle to the opened position flipped out of the well. An actuator is moved by the handle and has a lock position contact portion and an open position contact portion. The handle will move to the opened position where it is out of the well when the lock is open and by pushing the handle down, will cause the lock to turn to its locked position.
Claims23
A paddle lock, comprising:
- a housing;
- a lock, with locked and unlocked positions, attached to the housing;
- a cam connected to the lock, the cam having a locking portion and an unlocking portion;
- a cam biasing spring which biases the cam to a locking position and the lock to the locked position;
- a handle that is movably connected to the housing and has an opened position and a closed position;
- handle biasing means which biases the handle to the opened position;
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- an actuator that is moved by the handle, the actuator having a lock position contact portion and an open position contact portion.
A paddle lock, comprising:
- a housing;
- a lock, with locked and unlocked positions, attached to the housing;
- a cam connected to the lock, the cam having a locking portion and an unlocking portion;
- a cam biasing means which biases the cam to a locking position and the lock to the locked position;
- a handle that is movably connected to the housing between an opened position and closed portion;
- handle biasing means which biases the handle to the opened position;
- an actuator that is moved by the handle, the actuator having a lock position contact portion, an open position contact portion, and a lever actuating portion;
- a lever adapted to be moved by the lever actuating portion of the actuator;
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- a lever biasing means to bias the lever to a closed position.
A paddle lock, comprising:
- a housing with a well formed therein;
- a lock, with locked and unlocked positions, fixed to the housing;
- a cam connected to the lock, the cam having a curved perimeter portion and a stop surface;
- cam biasing means which biases the cam to a locking position and the lock to the locked position;
- a handle that is movably connected to the housing and adapted to at least partially move from a closed position in the well to an opened position at least partially out of the well;
- handle biasing means which biases handle to the opened position;
- an actuator that is moved by the handle, the actuator having a lock position contact portion, an open position contact portion, and a lever actuating portion;
- a lever adapted to be moved by the actuator;
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- a lever biasing means to biases the lever to a closed position;
- wherein the actuator's lock position contact portion rides on the curved perimeter portion of the cam when the lock is in the locked position and prevents the handle from being moved, and when the lock is moved to the unlocked position, the handle biasing means moves the handle to the opened position so that the actuator's unlocked position contact portion contacts the stop surface of the cam and prevents the lock from returning to the locked position, and by moving the handle further to counteract the lever biasing means, the lever is moved to an opened position, and by moving the handle to its closed position, the actuator is turned to move the open position contact portion out of contact with the cam's stop surface and the cam biasing means returns the cam to its locking position and lock to its locked position.
A paddle lock which positively indicates the locked or unlocked state of the paddle lock, comprising:
- a housing with a well;
- a lock, with locked and unlocked positions, attached to the housing;
- a handle that is movably connected to the housing between a locked position;
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- a cam connected to the lock, the cam having a locking portion and an unlocking portion, a cam biasing spring which biases the cam and the lock to the locked position, wherein the handle is largely received in the well, and an unlocked position wherein at least a portion of the handle extends outside of the well;
- wherein when the handle is moved to its locked position the lock is moved to its locked position, and when the handle is in its unlocked position, the lock is unlocked.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.