Lock pin and bolt construction for securing doors and other closures
AssigneeShade River Outfitters, Inc.
InventorNicholas John Garrett
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Abstract
A rotatable lock pin that inhibits forced entry into a container through a closure by securing the lock pin to the container. A lock pin has a pin cylinder with a curvature of rotation that engages with a rotation facilitator. The path of the curvature of rotation and the engagement of the rotation facilitator therewith causes the lock pin to rotate in a pre-determined fashion, so that structures on the lock pin can engage or attach to some part of the container to secure the position of the lock pin and hold the closure door in place. Lock pins of the subject invention utilized with safes can inhibit forced entry through the door by side punching or prying of the door.
Claims20
A lock pin mechanism for securing a closure to a structure, the lock pin mechanism comprising:
- a carriage on the closure and within the structure;
- at least one pin cylinder affixed to the carriage, each pin cylinder comprising a proximal end, a distal end, and a curvature of rotation therebetween, the pin cylinder being linearly moveable along a longitudinal axis of the pin cylinder;
- a rotation facilitator on the closure that engages with the curvature of rotation, and
- a rotating connector apparatus at the proximal end that rotatably attaches the proximal end of the pin cylinder to the carriage;
- such that each pin cylinder is independently rotatably attached to the carriage and is moveable, by the carriage, along the longitudinal axis of each respective pin cylinder, causing each rotation facilitator engaged with the curvature of rotation of each respective pin cylinder to rotate each pin cylinder on the carriage and around the longitudinal axis of the respective pin cylinder, so as to engage each pin cylinder with the structure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.