EP0449035A1 - Serrure à combinaison pour valises, porte-documents et objets analogues - Google Patents

Serrure à combinaison pour valises, porte-documents et objets analogues Download PDF

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EP0449035A1
EP0449035A1 EP19910103807 EP91103807A EP0449035A1 EP 0449035 A1 EP0449035 A1 EP 0449035A1 EP 19910103807 EP19910103807 EP 19910103807 EP 91103807 A EP91103807 A EP 91103807A EP 0449035 A1 EP0449035 A1 EP 0449035A1
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combination lock
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Georg Bartsch
Ulf Rasch
Klaus Hesse
Franz Hauschulte
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Sudhaus Schloss und Beschlagtechnik GmbH and Co
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
    • E05B—LOCKS; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; HANDCUFFS
    • E05B37/00—Permutation or combination locks; Puzzle locks
    • E05B37/02—Permutation or combination locks; Puzzle locks with tumbler discs or rings arranged on a single axis, each disc being adjustable independently of the others
    • 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
    • Y10T70/7153—Combination
    • Y10T70/7181—Tumbler type
    • Y10T70/7198—Single tumbler set
    • Y10T70/7237—Rotary or swinging tumblers
    • Y10T70/726—Individually set
    • Y10T70/7305—Manually operable
    • 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
    • Y10T70/7153—Combination
    • Y10T70/7322—Permutation
    • Y10T70/7328—Compound tumblers
    • Y10T70/7333—With fastener or holder

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  • the invention relates to a combination lock for containers such as suitcases, briefcases or the like. according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • Combination locks with adjoining setting or number wheels are known.
  • Various options are known and in use for setting a new opening code or a new opening combination.
  • DE-PS 28 28 057 shows a coding lever on the underside of the lock, for its operation the container or the case must be at least partially emptied or unpacked.
  • the coding lever protrudes into the interior of the container and can therefore easily be actuated or even accidentally damaged by the objects in the container.
  • a correspondingly large hole must be formed in the lining material possibly provided on the inner wall of the container, which hole must be protected against fraying.
  • DE-PS 28 16 073 shows a code adjustment device, which is located in the area of the raid nose locking hole on the outside of the lock plate and in which you can only move the pull button further into a position in which a new setting after it has been depressed the opening combination or the opening code of the combination lock is made possible.
  • This type of code adjustment requires several additional components; even with an open hold-up, the code adjustment device is clearly visible and easily accessible, so that it can be operated by unauthorized persons easily and without tools.
  • Combination locks are also known in which the code adjustment is made possible by moving the pull button either in the lock opening direction or opposite to the lock opening direction, for example from DE-OS 30 30 440 and DE-PS 29 46 091.
  • the invention has for its object a combination lock for containers such as suitcases, briefcases or the like. to create in which as few components as possible while avoiding the disadvantages mentioned above, the opening combination or the opening code from the outside of the container can be adjusted in a simple manner, an unconscious or unauthorized readjustment of the opening combination of the opening code should be impossible or very difficult .
  • the "unlocking of the opening combination set on the setting wheels" is carried out by a coding element which is formed separately from the pull button and which is not actuated or adjusted if the pull button is merely shifted. Accordingly, an unintentional unlocking of the opening combination cannot be carried out by actuating the pull button. It is not possible to unlock the opening combination by playing around with the pull button.
  • a component namely the coding element, must be consciously actuated, which is provided only for this purpose, namely unlocking of the opening combination set on the setting wheels.
  • the pull button By covering the coding element by the pull button according to claim 2 it is ensured that the coding element is invisible in the rest position of the combination lock; Accordingly, onlooking customers etc. are not encouraged to try out the function of the coding element.
  • the coordinated physical design of the actuating section of the coding element or of the pull button according to claim 3 offers the possibility of leaving the coding element largely "invisible" even when the pull button is actuated. Accordingly, actuation or adjustment of the coding element is only likely to be targeted by those who know the combination lock. In general, this should be the sales staff or a customer who has been instructed by the sales staff and who wants to buy the container provided with the combination lock.
  • the coding element is covered by the pull button, it is ensured that the coding element can only be operated anyway if the opening combination previously set on the combination lock is set and the pull button can be moved at all. Before that, the coding element is completely inaccessible.
  • the storage of the coding element according to claim 5 allows a defined adjustment of the coding element in the space specified by the lock plate recess. This exact mounting of the coding element ensures precise orientation and adjustment of the components to be moved by the coding element within the combination lock even when it is frequently adjusted.
  • the storage mentioned can be implemented by measures on components that are required for the combination lock anyway.
  • the design of the coding element with a rear wall arranged according to claim 7 releases those who want to readjust the opening combination of the combination lock from the need to hold the pull button during the readjustment.
  • the locking of the pull bolt connected to the pull button directly by the coding element thus considerably improves the ease of use of the combination lock.
  • the adjustment of the coding element can be implemented in a particularly simple manner by means of a bearing pin in a solution of the tooth engagement between the coupling bushes and the setting wheels.
  • the transmission of the pivoting movement of the coding element into an axial movement of the bearing pin can be realized particularly advantageously according to claim 9, since each time the pivoting element of the coding element is pivoted, the bearing pin is immediately and exactly moved into an axial position which corresponds to the corresponding pivoting position of the coding element.
  • the coding element according to claim 10 can advantageously be designed as a coding lever. Further advantageous refinements of the invention result from patent claims 11 and 12.
  • a combination lock shown in FIG. 1, in cooperation with a hold-up 9, is intended to prevent unauthorized opening of containers 35, in particular suitcases and briefcases.
  • the combination lock designed as a combination lock in the illustrated embodiment has three setting or numbering wheels 3.
  • the actuation of a pull button 2 is, as described in detail below, only possible if the setting wheels 3 have previously been placed in the predetermined opening combination.
  • the pull button 2 hides a lock plate recess 4.
  • a coding lever 1 is arranged, by means of which the predetermined opening combination can be changed.
  • the coding lever 1 can be pivoted between its blocking position shown in FIGS. 2 and 6 and its release position shown in FIGS. 5 and 7. At its end remote from the pull button 2, the coding lever 1 has a bolt section 30.
  • This bolt section 30 is on one side by a recess 31 which is formed in a side wall section of the inner cover plate 28, and on the other side by a recess 32 which between a rear wall section of the inner cover plate 28 and one of the receiving wheels 3 Housing 18 is formed, rotatably mounted.
  • the coding lever 1 can thus be pivoted about its axis of rotation defined by the bolt section 30 or by the recesses 31 and 32.
  • the coding lever 1 is equipped with an actuating section 29.
  • This actuating section 29 is arranged directly below the pull button 2 and covered by the pull button 2 in the rest position.
  • the adjustment path of the pull button 2 and the dimension of the actuating section 29 of the coding lever 1 are coordinated with one another in such a way that the limbs which operate the pull button 2, i.e. the thumb or finger of a hand, normally covers the actuating section 29 of the coding lever 1 when the pull button 2 is moved from its rest position into its open position.
  • the operating section 29 is on its outside, ie in the direction of the Pull button 2 oriented side, provided with a recess 26 into which a pointed object, for example a ballpoint pen tip or the like, is inserted; through this object the force required to pivot the coding lever 1 can be transferred to the latter.
  • the coding lever 1 is provided with a projection 33 which extends approximately outward from its bolt section 30 and at its free end a locking recess 14 is formed.
  • This locking recess 14 interacts with locking bosses 13, which are positioned and designed on the inner wall of the inner cover plate 28 so that the coding lever 1 can be locked in its blocking and in its release position.
  • the actuating section 29 of the coding lever 1 merges into a section in which a recess 34 is formed on the side of the coding lever 1 facing away from the projection 33 in the axial direction of the bolt section 30.
  • a wall area of this recess 34 is, as best shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, designed as an adjustment bevel 6.
  • the coding lever 1 has a rear wall 15 which, when the coding lever 1 is pivoted out of its blocking position into its release position, engages behind an edge 16 of a pull bolt 25 brought into its release position by means of the pull button 2; the drawbar 25 thus remains in its when the coding lever 1 is pivoted into the release position own release position when the pull button 2 is relieved.
  • the one end 37 of a bearing pin 5 of the combination lock is accommodated in the recess 34 which has the adjustment bevel 6 and is slidably mounted near this one end 37 in the housing 18.
  • a radially projecting bearing pin collar 7 adjoins the section of the bearing pin 5 which is mounted in the housing 18 in the direction away from the coding lever 1 and which is formed or attached to the bearing pin 5 in one piece with or fixed in the axial direction.
  • An outer toothing 11 is formed on the outer circumference of each coupling bushing 8, and an inner toothing 12 is formed on the inner circumference of each adjusting wheel 3.
  • the coupling bushes 8 are movable in the axial direction with respect to the setting wheels 3 which are fixedly mounted in the axial direction in the housing 18; this axial displacement enables the tooth engagement between the outer toothing 11 of the coupling bushes 8 and the inner toothing 12 of the adjusting wheels 3 to be released.
  • the coding bushing near the coupling sleeve 8 rests with its coding lever end face against the coding lever end face of the bearing pin collar 7.
  • the coding lever distant
  • the end face of the coupling sleeve 8 remote from the coding lever is acted upon by a leg 10 of a spring 36, which prestresses the coupling bushes 8 and, via the bearing pin collar 7, the bearing pin 5 in the direction of the bottom of the recess 34 formed in the coding lever 1.
  • the end 20 of the bearing bolt 5 remote from the coding lever is axially displaceably mounted in a so-called clip bearing 19 shown in FIG. 3a.
  • the spring 36 to be preloaded by means of its leg 10 in the direction of the coding lever 1 has a further leg 17 by means of which it pulls the drawbar 25 and thus the pull button 2 which is in mechanical connection therewith in the direction of an engagement position between the drawbar 25 and the raid 9 biased.
  • each coupling bush 8 is designed with a straight, flattened peripheral section 38.
  • a resilient segment 21 is formed in each case for each coupling bushing 8 in the housing 18.
  • Each of these resilient segments 21 is biased by a leaf spring 23 in the direction of the circumference of the coupling bush 8, so that the resilient segment 21 abuts against this circumference with a free, straight edge.
  • the resilient segment 21 is adjustable by rotating the coupling bushing 8 from a blocking position in which the straight edge of the resilient segment 21 abuts against a round section of the circumference of the coupling bushing 8 into a release position in which the straight edge of the resilient segment 21 against the straight circumferential portion 38 of the coupling bush 8 abuts.
  • Notches 27 are formed on the outer circumference of the adjusting wheels 3 at a predetermined circumferential distance.
  • the locking notches 27 interact with a spring arm 24 of the leaf spring 23.
  • a certain number is set on the adjusting wheel 3.
  • a rotational force must be applied, by means of which the spring arm 24 is pressed out of the locking notch 27.
  • Each notch 27 corresponds to a certain number.
  • the previously used opening combination here a number combination
  • a number combination is set on the adjusting wheels 3. If the correct number is set on all three setting wheels 3, all resilient segments 21 with the free edge mentioned above bear against the straight circumferential section 38 of the respective coupling bushing 8, as shown in FIG.
  • the movement path which is traversed by the projections 22 formed thereon when the pull bolt 25 is displaced longitudinally is free, as shown in FIG. 8a for a resilient segment 21.
  • the drawbar 25 can now be pulled out against the force of the leg 17 of the spring 36 from the locking engagement with the hold-up 9 shown in FIG. 2, as shown in FIG. In this position of the pull button, the actuating section 29 of the coding lever 1 is no longer covered by the pull button 2.
  • a pointed object namely a ballpoint pen tip, a small screwdriver or the like
  • the coding lever 1 is then pivoted with the aid of the pointed object from the blocking position shown in FIG. 6 into its release position shown in FIG. 5.
  • the end 37 of the bearing bolt 5 received in the recess 34 is pressed away from the coding lever 1 by the adjustment bevel 6 against the force of the leg 10 of the spring 36.
  • the bearing pin 5 With the bearing pin 5, the bearing pin collar 7 and thus the coupling bushes 8 are pressed in the same direction, ie to the left in FIGS. 2 and 7.
  • the coding lever 1 is pivoted against the force of the locking connection formed by the corresponding locking boss 13 and the locking recess 14 from its release position back to its blocking position, where the locking recess provided on its projection 33 14 engages with the correspondingly positioned, further locking boss 13.
  • the drawbar 25 Simultaneously with the adjustment of the coding lever 1 and the bearing pin 5, the drawbar 25 also moves back into its closed position as a result of the pretensioning force exerted on it by the leg 17 of the spring 36.
  • the actuating section 29 of the coding lever 1 is again covered by the pull button 2.
  • the resilient segments 21 can be brought into their blocking position blocking the movement path of the projections 22 of the latch 25, after which the combination lock is securely locked.
  • the combination lock can now only be opened with the newly set opening combination.

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