EP0106397B1 - Serrure de sécurité du type à gorges, avec goujon de consentement profilé - Google Patents

Serrure de sécurité du type à gorges, avec goujon de consentement profilé Download PDF

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EP0106397B1
EP0106397B1 EP19830201395 EP83201395A EP0106397B1 EP 0106397 B1 EP0106397 B1 EP 0106397B1 EP 19830201395 EP19830201395 EP 19830201395 EP 83201395 A EP83201395 A EP 83201395A EP 0106397 B1 EP0106397 B1 EP 0106397B1
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Amleto Pagano
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
    • E05B—LOCKS; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; HANDCUFFS
    • E05B21/00—Locks with lamelliform tumblers which are not set by the insertion of the key and in which the tumblers do not follow the movement of the bolt e.g. Chubb-locks
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T70/00—Locks
    • Y10T70/70—Operating mechanism
    • Y10T70/7441—Key
    • Y10T70/7486—Single key
    • Y10T70/7508—Tumbler type
    • Y10T70/752—Sliding tumblers
    • Y10T70/7531—Transverse
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T70/00—Locks
    • Y10T70/70—Operating mechanism
    • Y10T70/7441—Key
    • Y10T70/7729—Permutation
    • Y10T70/774—Adjustable tumblers
    • Y10T70/7746—Removable change element

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  • the subject of the present invention is a lock of the type to be actuated by a bit key, comprising a plate with locks actuated by said key and having a consent stud and a series of grooves actuated by the key and having windows with teeth, traversed by said consent stud of the lock plate, to allow movement of the stud and locks only by means of a key having in its bit a prefixed succession of projections and notches see FR-A-2 110 096.
  • said bolt plate consent stud has a prismatic shape with constant section and the teeth of the windows of the different grooves have a length defined as a function of the radius, relative to the axis of rotation of the key, of the corresponding projection or notch of the bit so that, under the action of the key, the free spaces between the teeth of the windows of all the grooves are aligned to allow the passage between them of the bolt consent stud .
  • the even position teeth of each groove are not equal to the odd position teeth of the same groove, since this makes unauthorized opening of the lock more difficult.
  • these constructions have certain drawbacks.
  • a first drawback of known locks of the type under consideration consists in the high construction and assembly costs, due to the fact that it is necessary to predispose numerous grooves, each corresponding, as regards the lengths of the teeth of its window, to a couple specific for measuring the protrusions and opposite notches of the key and, once the key intended for actuating a specific lock has been produced, the latter must be mounted by choosing, in the correct order, the various grooves corresponding to the successive couples of protrusions and key cuts. This includes, for the manufacture of the various grooves, the use of many different cookie cutters or very expensive cookie cutters with elements movable in different positions exactly prefixed; for the assembly of locks is required the careful intervention of specialist operators.
  • the first object of the present invention is to remedy the first indicated drawback of known groove locks, by producing a lock of the type to be actuated by a bit key in which the whole series of grooves is identical in the locks intended to be actuated. by different keys, thus allowing a complete unification of the assembly operations of the series of grooves, and consequently the use of unskilled labor or the automation of the operations.
  • a lock according to the preamble or claim 1 which, according to the invention, is characterized in that the grooves constituting said series of grooves ' have in their windows teeth of predetermined measures independently of the conformation of the keys of the key intended to actuate the lock, and that said consent stud of the plate with latches is shaped according to a profile having projections and notches cooperating with the windows of the different grooves, each projection or notch of the consent stud having a measurement established as a function of the radius of the corresponding projection or notch of the key and the measurement of the teeth of the corresponding groove, so that the consent stud passes freely between the teeth of the windows of the grooves when these have been moved by the preset key.
  • the grooves moved by the correct key do not have the free spaces aligned between the teeth of their windows but, despite this, they allow the passage of the consent stud because it has a profile corresponding to that of the free space between the teeth of the windows of the grooves thus displaced.
  • Locks with these characteristics have series of undifferentiated grooves which can be predisposed with non-intelligent or automated operations, without taking into account the conformation of the key which will have to actuate the lock, and this makes it possible to reduce the price of assembly operations.
  • the differentiation of each lock is achieved by the application of a single element predisposed according to the conformation of the key, that is to say of the profiled consent stud, and therefore represents the inevitable minimum cost of charge for the differentiation of locks.
  • the costs of manufacturing the grooves result greatly reduced by the fact that, even if all the grooves in the series are different from each other, the number of different grooves to be produced corresponds to the number of grooves which constitute the series of grooves of the lock, which is good lower than the number of different grooves which must be predisposed for the differentiation of known locks, even when they belong to the so-called fixed constant types.
  • the series of grooves is composed by grooves of odd position all equal to each other and by grooves of even position also all equal to each other but not equal to the grooves of odd position.
  • the number of different grooves that must be manufactured is reduced to only two, which represents the minimum compatible with the conservation, with keys with two opposite bits, of the degree of security depending on the fact that the position of the grooves results different in the odd turns and in the even turns, that is to say that the key does not have the two opposite symmetrical bits between them.
  • the manufacturing price of the lock grooves is thus reduced to the minimum possible.
  • a second object of the invention is to remedy even the second drawback reported of known groove locks, by producing a lock which, although having the degree of security of locks with a bit key, can be modified at any time to be actuated by a key different from the previous one, with an operation that can be done by the same user without intervention from a third party.
  • the profiled consent stud is applied to the lock plate in a removable and interchangeable manner, and that the windows of the grooves have, between the successive teeth, a height at least equal. at the height of the highest projections of the consent stud.
  • the adaptation of the lock to a new key is obtained simply by replacing the previous profiled consent stud by a new differently profiled consent stud, corresponding to the new key, without having to modify the series of grooves, which do not constitute an individualizing element of the lock.
  • the operation of replacing the profiled consent stud is made possible by the timely sizing of the groove windows, which ensures that the consent stud can be unthreaded and threaded through said windows without being prevented by the grooves when these are in place in the rest position.
  • said interchangeable consent stud is accessible through an opening on the inside of the lock casing, arranged in correspondence with a specific position of the lock plate with which the consent stud moves.
  • Figure 1 the lock system of a grooved lock, which is constituted by a plate 1 with a folded part 2 which carries the locks 3 intended to engage in the chin.
  • a window 4 In the plate 1 is formed a window 4, one edge of which forms teeth 5 intended to be engaged by a central part of the bit of a key to advance by successive turns the system of locks according to arrow A, by engaging it in the chin.
  • grooves 6 in variable number, five in this example, provided with slots 7 by means of which they are guided by pivots (not shown) integral with the envelope of the lock (also not shown), so that the grooves can slide in the direction of arrow B perpendicular to the direction A of movement of the lock.
  • the grooves 6 have an opening 8 into which the key is introduced when it is threaded into the lock and one side 9 of this opening cooperates with a corresponding projection or notch in the key when it turns, causing the groove 6 to move according to arrow B against the action of return springs not shown, up to a position which depends on the radius, with respect to the axis of rotation of the key (axis of the keyhole), of the projection or of the 'notch of the bit which cooperated with the groove considered.
  • Each groove 6 also has a window 10 which extends perpendicular to the direction B of movement of the grooves, and in the window 10 protrude pairs of opposite teeth 11 and 12.
  • the length is normally different for the even teeth and the odd teeth, which implies that the two keys of the key are not symmetrical between them and which is connected to a higher degree of security.
  • the teeth 11 and 12 are chosen so that, when the grooves 6 have been moved by the right key, the spaces between the opposite teeth 11 and 12 of the different grooves corresponding to the current turn are aligned and allow the passage between the teeth of a prismatic consent stud fixed to the plate 1, thus allowing the latter to advance in the direction A under the effect of the rotation of the key.
  • the lengths of the odd and even teeth 11 and 12 of each groove 6 correspond to the radii of the corresponding opposite projections or notches of the key bit, with the constructive and mounting consequences illustrated in the premise.
  • the measurements of the pairs of odd and even teeth of each groove 6 are chosen without any relation to the conformation of the key. It follows that the spaces between the opposite teeth 11 and 12 corresponding to the current turn are not aligned between the various grooves 6, even when the key which actuates the lock is right.
  • a consent stud 13 which, instead of being prismatic, is profiled so as to present its section, in correspondence with each groove 6, exactly where is the free space between the opposite teeth 11 and 12, if the key which actuates the lock is right.
  • the consent stud 13 therefore has a number of superimposed sections, each of which forms on one side and on the other of the stud 13 a projection or notch whose position depends on the radius of the corresponding projection or notch of the key. , and the conformation of the corresponding groove 6 of the lock.
  • each groove 6 of the series of grooves of the lock it is possible to choose a profile of consent stud 13 and to deduce therefrom the profile of a corresponding key, or vice conversely, whatever the conformation of the windows 10 of the grooves 6.
  • the construction of the latter is simplified if we make all the grooves 6 of odd position equal to each other and all the grooves 6 of even position equal to each other but not to odd ones, a condition which gives the lock the maximum degree of security.
  • the windows of the odd grooves can therefore be, for example, configured according to FIG. 2, and those of the even grooves according to FIG. 3. They differ for a displacement in opposite directions of the teeth of the successive turns.
  • D this displacement, it corresponds to a similar displacement D applied, alternately in opposite directions, to the projections and the notches of the bits 14 and 15 of a key 16 relative to the corresponding projections and notches of the profiled consent stud 13 ', as is particularly observed by the comparison of Figures 5 and 4; in the latter, for the sake of comparison, there is shown a profiled stud 13 'having the shape of a regular staircase.
  • the bolt system comprises, in addition to its base plate 1, a counter plate 17, the series of grooves 6 of the lock being intended to be placed between the plates 1 and 17.
  • the profiled stud 23 has a tail 18 inserted in a seat 1 'of the plate 1 and a shoulder 19 inserted in a seat 17' of the plate 17, as well as preferably a means 20 for grasping it; in addition, the profiled stud also has a projection 21 which prevents it from being mounted in the inverted position and which is provided with connection ramps 22. With these latter parts cooperates a small profiled spring 24 fixed to the plate 17, for example by means of 'a fixing plate 25 as shown in Figures 8 to 10.
  • the profiled stud 18-23 can be interchanged on the plates 1, 17 with a very easy operation which immediately follows the adaptation of the lock to the operation with a new type of key.
  • the means 20 for gripping the profiled stud 23 is accessible through an appropriate opening in the envelope of the lock, disposed on the inside of the door to which it is applied.
  • the envelope 26 of the lock in which the keyhole 27 is formed, has an opening 28 for access to the profiled stud, which has a limited width and which corresponds to a intermediate position (for example, on the second closing turn) of the lock.
  • a simple oscillating plate 29 of the same kind often used to cover the hole 27 of the lock.
  • the stud comprises a small profiled block 33 terminating above by a mounting and gripping head 31 having wings 32.
  • the block 33 can be fixed to a plate 1 or 17 by means of screws 34 passing through holes in the wings 32 and possibly mounted on these wings so as not to be able to come off.
  • the mounting and replacement of the profiled stud requires the use of a tool such as a screwdriver.
  • a lock according to the invention is provided with a spring lock (so-called "half-turn"), it will be actuated by means of a subsequent displacement of the lock system beyond the fully open position, in a manner known per se, not being applicable in this case the more usual system of making on the grooves separate slots for controlling the U-turn, because by applying the invention there is no position preset grooves operated by the right key.
  • a lock according to the invention makes it possible to change the key which is coordinated with it, each time that the occasion arises, because of the loss of a key or because it has been entrusted to a person suspect or for any other reason, by a simple and economical operation.
  • the lock according to the invention can be used systematically, for example, at the time of construction of a building, by initially providing all the apartments with locks with equal keys, so that the persons carrying out the work can enter in all apartments with the same key, and by personalizing each lock as and when the corresponding apartment is occupied.
  • the particular provisions indicated may vary in the different practical applications; thus one can vary the number of turns and / or the number of grooves which constitute the series, and the lock can be provided with control means and references for vertical and horizontal locks or any other known accessory.
  • the means for its insertion and its retention in position in the bolt system can even be varied widely.

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EP19830201395 1982-10-12 1983-09-29 Serrure de sécurité du type à gorges, avec goujon de consentement profilé Expired EP0106397B1 (fr)

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AT83201395T ATE23900T1 (de) 1982-10-12 1983-09-29 Sicherheitsschloss des typs mit zuhaltungen und profiliertem sperrstift.

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IT6819282A IT1155985B (it) 1982-10-12 1982-10-12 Serratura di sicurezza del tipo a leve con perno di consenso sagomato
IT6819282 1982-10-12

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IT8268192A0 (it) 1982-10-12
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