Lock with a limiting slide assembly

A lock comprising:

• a housing having a front open end, a rear open end and a cavity communicating with the front and rear open ends;
• a movable cylinder rotatably mounted in the cavity in the housing and having a front open end, a rear open end, a central hole defined through the movable cylinder and communicating with the front and rear ends of the movable cylinder, two protrusions extending outward from the front open end of the movable cylinder, a gap defined between the protrusions, a curved recess defined in the rear open end of the movable cylinder, multiple outer tumbler holes defined through the movable cylinder and multiple outer tumblers slidably mounted respectively in the outer tumbler holes;
• a stationary cylinder mounted in the cavity in the housing adjacent to the rear open end of the movable cylinder and having
• an axis;
• a front open end;
• a rear open end;
• a central hole defined through the stationary cylinder along the axis;
• a rail slot defined longitudinally in the front open end of the stationary cylinder along the axis, corresponding to the curved recess in the movable cylinder and having a bottom and a rear end;
• a through hole defined through the bottom of the rail slot and communicating with the central hole in the stationary cylinder;
• multiple inner tumbler holes defined in the front open end and corresponding to the outer tumbler holes in the moveable cylinder and each inner tumbler hole having an inside closed end;
• multiple inner tumblers slidably mounted respectively in the inner tumbler holes, respectively abutting the outer tumblers in the movable cylinder when the inner tumbler holes are aligned with the outer tumbler holes;
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• multiple springs mounted respectively in the inner tumbler holes and each spring located between the inside closed end of a corresponding inner tumbler hole and the inner tumbler inside the corresponding inner tumbler hole;
• a limiting slide assembly mounted movably in the rail slot to selectively hold the lock in a locked configuration or an unlocked configuration and having
• a limiting slide mounted slidably in the rail slot in the stationary cylinder, capable of sliding along the axis of the stationary cylinder, engaging the curved recess in the movable cylinder and closing the through hole of the stationary cylinder when the lock is in the locked configuration and disengaging from the curved recess when the lock is in the unlocked configuration and having
• a flat outside surface located on the limiting slide and selectively abutting and closing the through hole of the stationary cylinder;
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• a ball recess being curved, defined in the limiting slide and communicating with the through hole in the stationary cylinder when the lock is in the unlocked configuration;
• a spring mounted between the rear end of the rail slot in the stationary cylinder and the limiting slide;
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• a ball mounted in the through hole in the stationary cylinder, engaging the ball recess in the limiting slide when the lock is in the unlocked configuration and disengaging from the ball recess and abutting and blocked by the flat outside surface of the limiting slide from moving outward from the through hole of the stationary cylinder when the lock is in the locked configuration;
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• a latch bar being individual from the stationary and movable cylinders, slidably extending through central holes in the movable and stationary cylinders, capable of sliding along the axis of the stationary cylinder and having a front end, a rear end, an enlarged head formed on the front end, an annular groove defined around the latch bar, a spring mounted around the latch bar between the enlarged head and the front open end of the movable cylinder and a fastener mounted to the latch bar to prevent the latch bar from falling out of the housing.