RU223979U1 - LOCKING DEVICE - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model relates to locking (locking) devices that are used on railway, automobile and other types of transport to protect the doors of cars, containers, tank hatches, steering wheels of hopper cars, as well as various premises from unauthorized opening. The locking device contains a housing and a rope section, one end of which is placed in a hole formed in the housing for the passive end of the rope, as well as a locking means, while mutually intersecting threaded and through holes are also formed in the housing, with the possibility of placement in the through hole of the second end of the rope section when the locking device is closed. The fixing means is made in the form of a rod element, including a threaded section with the ability to be screwed into a threaded hole in the housing. One end of the rod element is pointed with the possibility of its interaction with a section of the rope located in the through hole of the housing when the locking device is closed. The other end of the rod element contains a handle, and an annular groove is made between the handle and the threaded section of the rod element. To paint the surface of the case, powder paint was used with the addition of a pigment that has the ability to luminesce. A bar code is applied to the surface of the body painted in this way, in which data is encoded to verify the authenticity of the locking device. Increased protection of the locking device from substitution, counterfeiting, and counterfeiting is provided. 6 salary f-ly, 1 ill.

Description

Field of technology to which the utility model relates

The utility model relates generally to the field of mechanical engineering, in particular to locking (locking) devices that are used on railway, automobile and other types of transport to protect the doors of cars, containers, tank hatches, steering wheels of hopper cars, as well as various premises, including .h. warehouses, shops, etc. from unauthorized opening.

In railway transport, the term “twist” is also used in relation to locking (locking) devices.

State of the art

A locking device is known according to invention patent No. RU 2351993 (Application: 2007105549/12, 02/14/2007, Published: 04/10/2009. Bulletin No. 10), containing a piece of rope, one end of which is fixed in the housing, and the second free end is pulled through through channel and is fixed in the housing with a locking mechanism.

The locking mechanism is made in the form of a rotating element having a section with a reduced cross-section, a pointed end, and a threaded section. The threaded section is located in the threaded hole of the nut, while the axis of the latter and the axis of the through channel lie in the same plane.

The nut is installed in the body along the outer diameter and secured in the end hole by rolling with the outer diameter of the body lowered along the edge.

The end hole is made with a diameter larger than the diameter of the through channel and the outer diameter of the thread formed in the nut.

The section with a reduced cross-section is made in the form of a radius rounding.

A locking device is known according to utility model patent No. RU 185011 (Application: 2017141487, 11/29/2017, Published: 11/16/2018 Bulletin No. 32), consisting of two parts in the form of a cable and a single monolithic body with a mechanism for fixing the free end of the cable, with that the housing has two parallel through channels, in one of which the passive end of the cable is fixed, and in the other - the free end of the cable by means of a fixation mechanism in the form of a locking screw interacting with it, which is separated when locked in an area with weakened strength from the associated one a technological shank, the threaded section of which is located in a threaded hole, a locking screw is installed in a threaded hole made directly in the body, the technological shank is made in the form of a rod equipped with a bar, such that the rod is located in the middle of the bar, and the passive end of the cable is fixed in the corresponding channel the body by punching from the outside in at least two recesses in the body.

A locking device is known according to utility model patent No. RU 211893 (Application: 2021137472, 12/17/2021, Published: 06/28/2022 Bulletin No. 19), which contains a housing, a cable, one end of which is rigidly attached to the housing, and a locking means. The housing has two mutually perpendicular holes with intersecting axes: a longitudinal threaded hole and a transverse through hole with the possibility of placing the second end of the cable in it. The fixing means is made in the form of an L-shaped bent rod element, including a threaded section, with the possibility of screwing into the specified longitudinal threaded hole, with one end cone-shaped and with a handle - on the other, bent end, with the possibility of interaction of the cone-shaped end with a section of the cable located in the transverse through hole. In this case, the cone-shaped pointed end of the rod element is made in the form of a spike, the diameter of the base of which is less than the diameter of the threaded section of the rod element, and the annular groove is made with a cone-shaped surface, tapering towards the threaded section of the rod element.

For locking (locking) devices known from the prior art, in order to fix the free end of the cable in the housing hole, it is necessary to screw a locking element with a pointed end into the housing until the locking element breaks off in an area with weakened strength in the area of its smaller cross-section.

For the locking device according to invention patent No. RU 2351993, such a section is the section of the rotary element from the end of the radius to the beginning of the threaded section.

For the locking device according to utility model patent No. RU 185011, the area of weakened strength of the locking mechanism is the area at the border of the technological shank and the locking screw.

For the locking device according to utility model patent No. RU 211893, the area of weakened strength of the locking element (rod element) is the zone of smaller cross-section of the cone-shaped surface of the groove of the rod element, adjacent to its threaded section.

This is the principle of operation of locking devices.

At the same time, locking devices are not protected from counterfeiting, since they do not have individual markings for each locking device.

According to the Technical requirements for fastenings intended for locking cars and containers with cargo, the transportation of which is allowed without locking and sealing devices, approved by the Ministry of Railways of Russia on September 14, 1999 (posted on the official website of JSC Russian Railways https://cargo.rzd.ru /ru/9898) the following markings are applied to the locking devices (“screws”):

- name of the device;

- trademark of the manufacturer;

- the last digit of the year of manufacture of the product.

As a rule, such information is applied to locking devices using laser marking that has long been known and is widely used, for example, for locking devices used in railway transport https://cargo.rzd.ru/ru/10067.

In this regard, known locking devices do not contain reliable visual individual identification features that make it possible to distinguish an original, factory-made product from a fake (counterfeit).

Visual identification features of known locking devices are limited to the presence, relative position and relative sizes of its parts and markings.

Therefore, locking devices are not protected from counterfeiting, since it is possible to manufacture a product with the same appearance and apply the required marking in a publicly accessible way.

In this regard, a technical solution is needed that makes it possible to identify the authenticity of the locking device. And not only during the examination of the device, but also under normal conditions of its use (for example, when delivered to the consumer, when installed on an object (for example, a wagon, container), when removed from the object, to prevent substitution and counterfeiting of devices.

The technical result that the claimed utility model is aimed at achieving is to increase the protection of the locking device from substitution, counterfeiting, and counterfeiting.

The locking device according to the proposed utility model contains a housing and a section of rope, one end of which is placed in a hole formed in the housing for the passive end of the rope, as well as a locking means.

Mutually intersecting threaded and through holes are also formed in the body, with the possibility of placing the second end of a rope section in the through hole when closing the locking device.

The fixing means is made in the form of a rod element, including a threaded section with the ability to be screwed into a threaded hole in the housing.

In this case, one end of the rod element is pointed with the possibility of interacting with a section of the rope located in the through hole of the housing when closing the locking device, and the other end of the rod element contains a handle.

The handle can be made in the form of an L-shaped bend of the end of the rod element or in the form of a strip permanently attached to the rod element.

An annular groove is made between the handle and the threaded section of the rod element.

To paint the surface of the case, powder paint was used with the addition of a pigment that has the ability to luminesce.

A bar code is applied to the surface of the body painted in this way, in which data is encoded to verify the authenticity of the locking device.

For example, a two-dimensional bar code can be used as a bar code. These types include QR code, Data Matrix code, etc.

The bar code can be applied to the locking device in a known manner, for example by laser engraving, laser or impact marking.

As a pigment capable of luminescence, a pigment capable of luminescence in the visible wavelength range, which occurs under the influence of exciting radiation in the ultraviolet wavelength range, can be used.

The presence of a pigment in powder paint that has the ability to luminesce is an additional individual identification feature of the locking device, increasing its protection against substitution, counterfeiting, and counterfeiting.

Control is carried out by the presence of luminescence of pigment particles with the ability to luminesce, which occurs after the pigment absorbs excitation energy.

For example, fluorescent pigments UVY, UVW can be used to add to powder paint

(https://goodcolor.ru/shop/glow_pigment/glow_pigment-fluorescent/glow_pigment-fluorescent-uv/pigment_fluorescent_uv.html/).

These pigments are invisible in normal light. When using devices (in the simplest case, a flashlight emitting light with a wavelength of 365-395 nm), particles of these pigments will glow a certain color when irradiated with ultraviolet light.

By choosing the relative proportion of powder paint and pigment, the type of pigment and, accordingly, methods for monitoring the presence of pigment in the paint coating of a locking device, the arsenal of individual identification features is expanded and resistance to substitution and counterfeiting is increased.

In the practical implementation of the claimed utility model, any data known from the prior art can be encoded into a bar code to verify the authenticity of the product.

For example, in the form of a sequence of characters unique for each instance of a locking device, or in the format of a hypertext link to an Internet page with information about the locking device confirming its authenticity (manufactured by the manufacturer), or in the form of a data set with access parameters to records in the database data containing information about the locking device, confirming its authenticity (manufactured by the manufacturer), previously entered into the database.

For example, if a bar code is encoded with a unique sequence of characters for each instance of a locking device, then information about which sequence of characters corresponds to a specific instance of a locking device produced on a certain date may be available, for example, to the manufacturer, who is in the process of producing each individual instance locking device, applies the specified bar code to it, into which a unique sequence of symbols corresponding to this instance of the locking device is encoded.

Scanning a bar code with a hypertext link encoded in it allows you to verify the authenticity of a given instance of a locking device, as it allows you to access an Internet page with information about the locking device, including information about the name, production date, manufacturer, and visually compare this information with the markings on the locking device itself.

Scanning a bar code with a set of data encoded in it with parameters for accessing records in the database containing information about the locking device allows you to verify the authenticity of a given instance of the locking device, as it allows you to access the specified information in the database and compare it with the markings on the locking device itself.

At the same time, with any choice of information encoded into a bar code allowed by the indicated alternative, the same technical result is obtained - increasing the protection of the locking device from substitution and counterfeiting, counterfeiting by providing the ability to verify the authenticity of the locking device by scanning a bar code and using the encoded no information.

And the distinctive features of the claimed utility model are aimed not so much at the possibility of placing and subsequent reading of information printed on the body of the locking device, but at directly determining the authenticity of the presented technical solution in order to identify substitution, counterfeiting, and counterfeiting.

A wide range of commonly available devices can be used to scan a barcode, such as mobile phones, wired and wireless barcode scanners connected to personal computers, etc.

The declared technical result is due to a combination of essential features of the proposed utility model:

- the presence and relative position of the components and parts of the locking device;

- the presence of powder paint on the surface of the body with the addition of a pigment that has the ability to luminesce,

- the presence of a bar code applied over the surface of the body painted with such a protective composition, into which the data used to verify the authenticity of the locking device is encoded.

Each of these features, together with each other, ensures increased protection of the locking device from substitution, counterfeiting, and counterfeiting by increasing the number, types, and methods of monitoring its individual identification features.

Thus, to protect the locking device from counterfeiting, paint is simultaneously applied to the surface of the body with the addition of a pigment capable of luminescence, and a bar code is applied to it, through which the authenticity or counterfeit of the device is determined.

It is precisely this design implementation that provides possible verification of the presence of pigment particles in the paint coating specifically in the area of bar code application using irradiation.

In this case, for example, the absence of pigment particles in the area where the bar code is applied may indicate that there was unauthorized intervention in the design of the device in order to falsify its marking, which directly increases the degree of protection against substitution and counterfeiting. In this connection, the distinctive features of the claimed utility model are aimed not so much at the possibility of placing and subsequent reading of information printed on the body of the locking device, but at directly determining the absence of interference in the design of the presented technical solution for the purpose of substitution or counterfeiting.

The utility model is illustrated by the following drawings:

Fig. 1 - sectional view of the locking device (in the “closed” position, but before the rod element breaks).

The locking device contains a housing 1 and a rope, one end 2 of which is located in the housing 1.

In the body 1, mutually intersecting threaded 4 and through 5 holes are formed, with the possibility of placing the second end 3 of the rope in the through hole 5 when closing the locking device.

The fixing means is made in the form of a rod element 6, including a threaded section 7 with the possibility of screwing into the threaded hole 4 of the body 1, while one end 8 of the rod element is pointed with the possibility of interacting with a section of the rope located in the through hole of the body when the locking device is closed . The other end of the rod element contains a handle 9, and an annular groove 10 is made between the handle 9 and the threaded section 7 of the rod element 6.

To paint the surface of the locking device body, powder paint was used with the addition of a pigment that has the ability to luminesce.

A bar code 11 is applied to the painted body 1, in which data is encoded to verify the authenticity of the locking device.

The locking device works as follows.

Before installation on an object, the presence and relative position of visible structural elements are visually assessed (for example, by comparison with a reference sample) and, if necessary, their dimensions; By irradiating the surface of the device, including the area where the bar code is applied, the presence of luminescence of pigment particles capable of luminescence is checked, which occurs after the pigment absorbs excitation energy, and the bar code 11 is scanned to verify the authenticity of the locking device.

The end 3 of the cable, when closing the locking device, is threaded through the eyes of the object being locked (for example, a door or hatch of a car), then passed through the through hole 5 until the smallest possible loop of the cable is formed.

After this, the rod element 6 is screwed into the threaded hole 4. The pointed end 8 of the cable interacts with the cable (penetrates between the cable threads and also exerts a pressing effect on them).

With further screwing of the rod element, with increasing force on the handle, when a force exceeds the tensile strength of the rod element in the area of the smaller cross-section of the annular groove 10, the rod element breaks.

After this, the locking device remains on the object until it is removed.

The locking device can be removed either regularly - for example, after the end of carriage of the carriage, or unauthorized - for example, for unauthorized access to the carriage for illegal purposes.

The presence of a paint coating with phosphor particles and a bar code 11 on the locking device and scanning it at different stages of using the locking device to verify its authenticity will help identify substitution, counterfeiting, and counterfeit of the locking device.

In this way, the technical result of the claimed utility model is achieved - the protection of the locking device from substitution, counterfeiting, and counterfeiting is increased.

Claims (7)

1. A locking device containing a housing and a piece of rope, one end of which is placed in a hole formed in the housing for the passive end of the rope, as well as a locking means, while mutually intersecting threaded and through holes are also formed in the housing, with the possibility of placing a second one in the through hole end of a piece of rope when closing the locking device, the locking means is made in the form of a rod element, including a threaded section with the possibility of screwing into a threaded hole in the housing, while one end of the rod element is pointed with the possibility of interacting with a section of the rope located in the through hole of the housing when closure of the locking device, and the other end of the rod element contains a handle, while between the handle and the threaded section of the rod element there is an annular groove, characterized in that for painting the surface of the body, powder paint is used with the addition of a pigment that has the ability to luminesce, and on the painted surface Thus, the surface of the case is marked with a bar code, in which data is encoded to verify the authenticity of the locking device. 2. The locking device according to claim 1, characterized in that the handle is made in the form of an L-shaped bend of the end of the rod element. 3. The locking device according to claim 1, characterized in that the handle is made in the form of a strip, permanently attached to the rod element. 4. The locking device according to claim 1, characterized in that a two-dimensional bar code is applied as a bar code. 5. Locking device according to claim 1 or 4, characterized in that the bar code is applied to the locking device using laser engraving or laser marking. 6. Locking device according to claim 1 or 4, characterized in that the bar code is applied to the locking device using impact markings. 7. The locking device according to claim 1, characterized in that the pigment that has the ability to luminesce is a pigment that has the ability to glow in the visible wavelength range, which occurs under the influence of exciting radiation in the ultraviolet wavelength range.