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US 9,194,159 B2Granted
Padlock
AssigneeABUS August Bremicker Söhne KG
InventorBernhard Garthe
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Abstract
The invention relates to a padlock in particular to a padlock for securing and monitoring a switch of an industrial plant. The invention further relates to a set of padlocks, to a padlock housing and to a method of retrofitting a padlock.
Claims18
A padlock comprising
- a lock body defining first and second passages therein;
- a shackle having first and second shanks linearly displaceable in the first and second passages between a locked position and a released position, the first shank being withdrawn from the first passage and the second shank being retained in the second passage in the released position;
- a housing having an internal volume, the internal volume having a lock body reception space and a head space;
- the housing comprising a reception groove at an outside thereof extending along the head space adjoining the first passage;
- and the first shank at least partly overlapping the housing and being pivotable into and out of the reception groove about the second shank in the released position,
- wherein the housing encases the second shank between a top side of the housing and the lock body reception space.
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A method of retrofitting a padlock comprising a lock body defining first and second passages therein, a first shackle having first and second shanks linearly displaceable in the first and second passages between a locked position and a released position, and a first housing having an internal volume, the internal volume having a lock body reception space;
- the method comprising the steps of:
- removing the first housing and the first shackle from the lock body;
- mounting a second shackle and a second housing to the lock body;
- wherein the second shackle is longer than the first shackle along an axis of the first passage;
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- wherein the second housing is longer than the first housing along the axis of the first passage, the second housing comprising a lock body reception space for receiving the lock body and a head space, and further comprising a reception groove at an outside of the second housing, wherein the reception groove extends along the head space and adjoins the first passage of the lock body.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.