US761843A - Lock. - Google Patents

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No. 761,843. PATBNTED JUNE 7, 1904.

J. LYON.

LOCK.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 13, 1902. H0 MODEL. 7

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APPLIGAI'ION FILED JAN. 13, 1902.

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7 UNITED, STATES Patented. June 7, 190 1.

PATENT O FICE.

JOSEPH LYON, OF DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO FRANK J. MCCORMICK,

TRUSTEE, OF DAYTON, OHIO.

' LOCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 761,843, dated June 7, 19 04.

' Application-filed January 13,1902. $e1-ia1No.'89,623. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J OSEPH LYON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Dayton, Mont gomery county, Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Look,- of which the following I is a specification, reference being had to the rel by an independent movement 'of the bolt from within. v

My invention consists of the me'ans,'com-% binations, arrangements, and construction of 5' thevarious parts and means, all as hereinlock as viewed fromthe outside. sectional view thereof substantially on line is a sectional view substantially on line X X of Fig. 2. Fig. 4

annexed drawings, forming part hereof, in which drawings like characters of reference indicate the same parts.

My present invention relates to locks, and its embodiment forms what might be termed a combination lock and bolt, and giving the speed and convenience of the ordinary sliding bolt when looking or unlocking from after described, and stated in the claims.

The best means known to me, at this time for accomplishing the objects of my invention in which Figure 1 is an exterior view of aportion of? a door and its casing containing my improved Fig. 2 1s a X X of Fig. 3. Fig. 3

is a view similar to Fig. 1, but as viewed from the opposite or 1n side. Fig. 51s a View on line Y Y of Fig. 2, the security-lock or blind Fig. 6 is a sectional view on line X X of Fig. 5. Fig.2 7 is a central longitudinal sectional view of lock being in its locking position.

the bolt. Figs. 8 and 9 are respectively an.

exterior end-view and a cross-sectional view of said bolt. Fig.- 10 is a view of the outer side of the bolt, showing the horizontal porwall. Fig. 11 is an exterior View of my invention when constructed to insert the lock are illustrated in the accompanying drawings,

tion of its angular slot provided with a topinto the door from ,the outside. Fig. 12 is a sectional view thereof substantially on line X X of Fig. 11, the inner portion of the door and casing being broken away, as that portion of the same is similarto the inner por tion shown in Fig. 2.

The bolt 10 is slidingly mounted 'in the frame consisting of a face-plate 11, to which is rigidly secured a sheet-metal portion 12,

extending at right angles thereto and terminating in a portion 18, bent at right angles to its body, said bolt 10 being slidably mounted in openings in said face-plate 11 and portion 13. From the inner side of said bolt projects a pin or operating member 14 for shooting said bolt from the inside. A slot 15, formed in the door 16 and covered by faceplate 17, secured to the door and similarly slotted, accommodates the projecting'end of pin 14. i In the structures shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 the lock ismounted in the usual central mortise-18, which is covered by the face-plate 11 and has extension 19 for the back clearance of the bolt. p 7

The outer face of bolt 10' is provided with a slot 20, consisting of a branch slot extending at right angles to the movement of bolt 10 and, a'separate branchslot extending longitudinally of said bolt 10 and connecting intermediate its ends with one end of said firstnamedbranch slot, which slot 20 is engaged by pin'21, carried by key-barrel 22, mounted in shell 23, which barrel and shell are of the usual Yale construction or otherwise. When said key-barrel isturned by the key, said pin 21,is adapted to drop downward into the vertical branch of said slot 20 in following the arc of the circle described by said pin 21 .in moving with the key-barrel, and by contacting with the walls of said vertical branch of said, slot 20 said pin 21 drives said bolt 10 into or out of its keeper 25 in the door-casing 26,. and which keeper is provided with the iisual face-plate 27. In the positions shown jin Figs. .2 and 3 said key-barrel 22 is in the position where its pin 21 has withdrawn the .;bolt,"1O from its keeper and the door having been opened and closed and th'bldltlO manually shot into its keeper from the inside by pressure on pin 14. The key-barrel 22 is not moved by said manually shooting of bolt 10 and remains in that position to which it was moved by the key in withdrawing bolt 10 from its keeper, but said shooting of bolt 10 moves the vertical branch of slot away from key-barrel pin 21, Figs. 2 and 3, and also brings that portion of the body of bolt 10 represented by one of the horizontal branches of slot 20 across the path of pin 21 to oppose the downward movement of saidv pin 21 in the arc of a circle. The pin on key-barrel casing 23, cooperating with the separated projections 31 on the key-barrel 22, limits the movement of key-barrel 22 to substantially half of a revolution and precludes the possibility of key-barrel 22 shooting bolt 10 by moving with its pin 21 upward, Fig. 3, in the arc of a circle and thence down into the vertical branch of slot 20 and then shooting bolt 10 by further movement of key-barrel 22.

It will thus be seen that it is the shooting of bolt .10 from the inside of the door that locks key-barrel 22 (accessible from the outside of the door) from being turned its normally-allotted half of a revolution even by the proper key by reason of said engagement of key-barrel pin 21 with that part of the horizontal branch of slot 20 on either side of the vertical branch of said slot 20', the pin 21 being normally in the plane of said horizontal branch of slot 20 at each end of the limited half of a revolution of said key-barrel 22, and that when said key-barrel 22 is so locked from movement the lock becomes un pickable from the outside of the door, since said keybarrel 22 is precluded from shooting the bolt 10, and said key-barrel 22 and its shell 23 thereby becomes a deceptive, blind, or dummy lock that cannot be rendered operative even with the appropriate key and that the most skilful burglar would be deceived by this lock, which is most effectively employed as a night-lock when the key-barrel 22 is in such position that if the bolt were controlled thereby at all times instead of only at those times determined by the person within said bolt 10 would be out of its keeper. Consequently the term blind lock or deceptive' lock may be appropriate for this lock, which may or may not be operated from the outside by the appropriate key, according -to the will of the person or persons within in shooting the bolt 10 from the inside or not, and that the construction is such that it is simply the movement of bolt 10 into or out of its keeper when actuated from the inside, which locks the key-barrel from movement even by the proper key.

When the bolt 10 is driven in one direction by pin 21 of key-barrel 22 engaging in the vertical branch of slot 20 in bolt 10 and the bolt is then moved in the opposite direction by pin 14 manually from the inside of the door, the key-barrel thereby becomes locked in the manner before stated.

Pin 30 on shell 23 and projections 31 upon the inner end of the key-barrel 22 may be dispensed with when the slot 20" in the bolt is provided with the horizontal top wall 32, as shown in Fig. 10, the walls of which slot 20" will in this case as eii'ectually limit the revoluble movement of key-barrel 22.

To prevent an entrance being forced by sawing off the bar or bolt 10, l have devised the construction shown in Figs. 7, 3, and 9, in which the bar or bolt 10 is provided with a longitudinal circular opening 33, in which loosely fits a hardened pin 34, prevented lrom escaping from said opening in the instance shown by plug 35, sealing the mouth of said opening 33. Said pin 34 will thus revolve freely in said opening 33 when a saw, lile, or other tool contacts therewith.

The shell 23 of the key-barrel is mounted in plate 12 of the casing by being bodily inserted through opening 40 of plate 12 and through opening 41 in the door 16 until the lip 42 on shell 22) contacts with the outer face of the door, whereupon the lock-easing is pushed completely into its mortise 13, the three faces 43 ot' a lateral extension oi said opening 40 contacting with corresponding angular depressions 44 in the periphery of shell 23, in which position said shell 23 is held by a screw 45, passing through an opening in face-plate 11 and threaded into an opening 46, Figs. 2 and 3, in said shell 23. There are a plurality of said depressions 44 and openings 46 at different points in the length of said keybarrel to accommodate the different thicknesses of doors and other varying conditions.

As a safety night-lock from within for the bolt 10 I suspend plate 50 loosely upon pin 14 by opening 51 for convenience and to prevent said plate being lost. Upon the rear or inner surface of plate 50 is a projection iitting the slot in face-plate 17, with the exception ol a space at one end, which is for the accommodation of pin 14, which projection is formed in the instance shown by securing a plate 52 upon the inner side of plate 50. ' lhrough plates 50 and 52 pass a headed pin 53, adapted l 5 to be revolved by a key fitting into a plurality of recesses 54 in the head thereof. Said recesses 54 are dissimilar to and unsuggestive ol keyholes and the head of pin 53 is intended to convey to the unauthorized the impression 120 that it is but a rigid projection or reliellornament. On the outer end of pin 53 are oppositely-located bolts or looking projections 55 whose lengths are greater than the width ol' the slot in face-plate 17. \Vhen said projec- 5 This inside 2 them.

locking device for the bolt is so minute as to escape observation and is therefore a deceptive or a blind lock, misleading the uninformed into the belief that. the pin 14 is the pin of the ordinary night-lock, which turns upon its axis. The head upon pin 14 is removably secured thereto by threads or otherwise and enables the plate 50 and its attached parts to be removed therefrom at will.

It will thus be seen that the plate 17 constitutes armember against which the projection 14 on bolt 10 is adapted to contact for the purpose of limiting the movement of said bolt 10 and that said projection or plate 52 constitutes a separate member adapted to be placed between said projection 14; and the point where said projection 14s is adapted to contact with said member or plate 17 for further limiting the movement of bolt 10, and that plate 50, pin 53, and projections 55 constitute in the structure shown means for removably securing said projection orplate 52 in said position, and that recesses 54 in said pin 53 constitute in the structure shown deceptive means where by said plate 52 may be released, since said recesses 54 are not suggestive of a keyhole.

In the construction shown in Fig. 12 the same parts that are employed in the previouslydescribed figures are designated with the same reference character, with the addition of the letter B, just as the letter A is employed in, Fig. 10 to distinguish that'modification.

The mortise 18 is cut from the outside face of the door, the lip 42 of shell 23 covering the outer edge of said mortise, the face-plate 11 and the portion 13 being secured to said lip 42 and the bolt 10 being slidably mounted in openings therethrough, the difference inconstruction being that the shell 23 forms the body of the lock-casing and is not independ ent thereof, as is shown in the previous figures of the drawings.

In another application, Serial No. 71,877, filed August 14, 1901, entitled .Burglaralarm house-protector, I have shown and described the lock mechanism herein embodied and have claimed the samein combination with an alarm or burglar-alarm apparatus, and in: asmuch as in that application I could not claim the structures of this apparatus independent of or unrelated to said alarm apparatus this application is for the purpose of so claiming Inasmuch as I could not claim in this application the construction of the bolt 10, containing the pin 34c in structural and functional relations and combinations other than substantially those herein shown and described, therefore I have in another application, entitled J ail or burglar-proof construction, filed June 5, 1903, serially numbered 160,150, shown and claimed. such str'ucture in structural and functional relations and combinations forming the bars of a jail or analogous barred structure.

Having 'now so fullydescribed my-invention that others skilled in the art mayfreely make and use the same when this exclusive grant shall cease to operate, whatI claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In alock, the combination withrelatively movable and stationary members, ofa casing carried by one of said members, a bolt-keeper carried by the other of said members, a relatively long straight bolt slidably mounted in said casing and adapted to enter said keeper, a key-actuated member revolubly mounted .in one side of said casing and extending substantially at right angles to said bolt and terminating at its inner end adjacent one side of said bolt andwithin its length, a pin projecting longitudinally from the inner end of said key-actuated member, a slot in the adjacent face of said bolt, aspace extending longitudinally of said bolt and openingintermediate its ends into one end of said slot, said pin being in the plane of and adapted to enter either slot or said space, and means independent of said key-actuated member whereby said bolt may be actuated independent of said member, sub stantially asspecified.

- 2. In a lock, the combination of a frame, a bolt slidably mounted therein, a vertical slot in one side of said belt, a space extending longitudinally of said bolt and opening intermediate its ends into one end of said slot, a member revolubly mounted in said casing, a pin carried by said member at a point removed from its axis and extending parallel thereto, said pin normally being in said space and adapted to enter said slot by the revoluble movement of said member, and means independent of said member whereby said bolt may be actuated independent of said member, substantially as specified.

3. In a lock, the combination with a bolt, two independent devices whereby said bolt may be independently shot, one of said devices being a key-actuated device; means for normally connecting one of said devices operatively to said bolt, and said means preventing themovement of said operativcly-connected device after said bolt is shot by the other of said devices, substantially as specified. q

4:. In a lock, the combination with a frame, a bolt slidably mounted therein, two independent devices projecting in different directions from said frame whereby said bolt may be independently shot, one of said devices including a key-barrel to movesaid bolt; means for locking one of said devices, and said locking means being actuated by the shooting of said bolt by the other of said devices, substantially as specified.

5. In alock, the combination of a bolt, a keyactuated means for actuating said bolt in either direction, independent means for actuating said bolt in either direction, said bolt-actuating means extending in different directions from said bolt, and means whereby when said bolt is actuated by said independent means, said bolt cannot be operated by said key-actuated means, substantially as specified;

6. In a lock, the combination of a frame, a bolt slidable therein, a key-barrel projecting from the outer side of said frame, means intermediate said key-barrel and bolt for operating said bolt, operating means for said bolt projecting from the inner side of said frame, and means including said intermediate means for locking said key-barrel from movement when said bolt is operated by said operating means, substantially as specified.

7. In a lock, the combination with a frame, of a bolt slidably mounted therein and having in one side thereof a slot at an angle to its length, and also having a space extending longitudinally of said bolt and opening intermediate its ends into one end of said slot, a keybarrel revolubly mounted in said frame with its inner end terminating adjacent the slotted face of said belt, a pin extending longitudinally from said key-barrel near its edge and projecting into the plane of said slot and space, means for limiting the movement of said key-barrel to substantially half a revolution, and means whereby said bolt may be actuated independent of said key-barrel, substantially as specified.

8. In a lock, the combination with a casing, a bolt slidabl y mounted therein and having a slot in one face of said bolt and extending parallel with the movement thereof, and also having a branch slot at an angle to and joiningsaid main slot intermediate its ends, and a member revolubly mounted in said casing and having a pin normally projecting into said slot and adapted to occupy said main and branch slots when said bolt is moved by said member, substantially as specified.

9. The combination of a bolt, aframe therefor, a revoluble driver for said bolt mounted in said frame and on one side of said bolt; means for limiting the movement of said driver to half a revolution, a projection extending from said driver, an angular slot in the adjacent face of said bolt and cooperating with said projection, said projection cooperating with one branch of said slot to enable said driver to slide said bolt; and means independent of said driver for sliding said bolt; whereby when said bolt is slid by said independent means said projection cooperates with said other branch of said angular slot to lock said driver, substantially as specified.

10. The combination with a lock-casing, of a lock-barrel casing having a plurality of recesses 44 located at different points about the periphery thereof, an opening 40 through said lock-casing, slightlylarger than said barrel-casing, a recess formed in said lock-casing at one side of said opening 4C0, portions of the walls of said recess from said opening 40 having faces 43 engaging said recesses 44 in said barrel, and means for securing said barrel with said faces t3 engaging said recesses ll, substantially as specified.

11. The combination with a lock-casing, of a lock-barrel casing having a plurality of recesses 44 located at differentpoints about the periphery thereof, an opening 40 through said lock-casing, slightly larger than said barrel, a recess formed in said loch-casing at one side of said opening 40, said recess from said opening 10 having faces -13 engaging said recesses H in said barrel; a screw passing through the face-plate 11 of said lock-casing and threaded into said key-barrel casing for securing said key-barrel casing to said lockcasing with said faces 43 engaging said recesses t4, substantially as specified.

12. lnaloch, a bolt having a slot in one side thereof, at an angle to the length of said bolt and also having a slot extending parallel to thelongitudinal axis of said bolt, and said firstnamed slot opening at one end into one side only of said last-named slot intermediate its ends, said slots being substantially of uniform width and depth, substantially as specilied.

13. In alock, the combination of a lock-casing, a key-barrel and a casing for said heybarrel, a plurality of sets of notches in the periphery of said barrelcasing, each set of said notches being at an angle to the other of said notches, and the notches of each set being separated from each other and at different points in the length of said lntrrel-casing, a barrel-casing opening in said lock-easing, :v recess in the side of said opening having faces adapted to fit one notch in each of said sets of notches, said barrel-casing and loch-casing being relatively, longitiulinally and then laterally movable to bring said notches and faces 4;) into engagement, and means for securing .aid barrel-casing with one notch in each of its sets of notchesengagingsaid faces, substantially as specified.

let. The combination with aloch-casing, of a loclebarrel casing having aplurality of sets of notches 44 each set being located at a different point in one portion of the periphery of said barrel-casing, said notches 4A of each set being at different points in the length of said barrel-casing; an opening 41) through said lock-casing slightly larger than said barrelcasing, a recess formed in said lock-casing at one side of said opening 40 and having faces 13 adapted to engage any one. notch 44' in each of said sets of notches 44, a screw passing through the face-plate of said lock-casingaml adapted to be threaded into one of a plurality of openings in said barrel-casin g for securing said barrel-casing with one of said uotchesllin each set engaging their corresponding faces a3 in said recess in said lock-casing, substantially as specified.

15. The combination of a support, a bolt slidably mounted therein, a pin projecting from said bolt for manually moving said bolt, a slot through which said pin projects, and a plate adapted to be inserted in said slot for locking said pin in either end of said slot, substantially as specified.

16. The combination of a support, a bolt slidably mounted therein, a pin projecting from said bolt, a slot through which said pin I projects, a plate adapted to be inserted in said slot for locking said pin in either end of said slot, and means for locking said plate in said slot, substantially as specified.

17. In a lock, the combination of abolt, a projection on said bolt, a member against which said projection is adapted to contact for limiting the movement of said bolt, and a separate member adapted to be placed between said projection and the point where said projection is adapted to contact with said member, whereby said separate member further limitsthe movement of said bolt, substantially as specified.

18. In a lock, the combination of a bolt, a projection on said bolt, a member against which said projection is adapted to contact for limiting the movement of said bolt, a separate member adapted to be placed between said projection and the point where said projection is adapted to contact with said member, and means for removably securing said separate member between said projection and member, substantially as specified.

19. In a lock, the combination of a bolt, a projection on said bolt, a member for limiting the movement of said bolt, a separate member adapted to be placed. between said projection and said member, means for securing said separate member between said projection and member, and deceptive means'whereby said securing means may be released to permit the removalof said separate member from its secured position, substantially as specified.

20. The combination of a support, a bolt slidably mounted therein, a pin projecting from said bolt, a slot through which said pin projects, a plate adapted to be inserted in said slot, a supplemental plate secured to and with its edges overlapping said first plate, an opening in said supplemental plate through which said pin projects, and means for lockingsaid plates in said slot, substantially as specified.

21. As a new article of manufacture, a supplemental lock consisting of a plate 50 having an opening 51 therethrough, a projection on one side of said plate 50, and locking means movably mounted on said plate, substantially as specified.

22. As a new article of manufacture, a supplemental lock consisting of plates 50 and 52 secured together, an opening 51 through said plate 5O, a member 53 revolubly mounted in and projecting through said plates, and locking projections on the inner end of said member 53, substantially as specified.

'a projection 52 on one side thereof, an open ing 51 near one end of said plate 50, a bolt or locking portion movably mounted upon the inner side of said plate '50, and means whereby said bolt or locking portion may be operated from the opposite side of said plate 50, substantially as specified.

24;. In a lock, the combination of a bolt slidably mounted, a projection rigidly mounted thereon, a member having a normally exposed slot into which said projection extends and remains, and means separate from and independent of said bolt, projection and member and cooperating with said projection and member for locking said bolt from movement and obscaring said slot, substantially as specified.

25. In a lock, the combination of a bolt slidably mounted, an operating projection thereon, a member having a slot through which said projection extends, means for locking said bolt from movement and closing said slot, and means for removably securing said locking means in its locking position, substantially as specified. I

26. In a lock, the combination of a bolt, keyactuated means for normally operating said bolt from the outside, an operating projection extending from the inside of said bolt whereby said bolt may normally be manually shot from the inside, and means operable from the inside for locking said bolt from movement at either end of its movement, substantially as specified.

27. In a lock, the combination of a bolt, keyactuated means for normally operating said bolt from the outside, an operating projection extending from the inside of said bolt whereby said boltmay normally be manually shot from the inside, means operable from the inside for locking said bolt from movement at either end of its movement, and a key-actuated member for removably securing said boltlocking means in its locking position, substantially as specified.

' 28. In a lock, the combination of a frame, a bolt slidably mounted therein, two independent devices projecting in different directions IIO from said frame whereby said bolt may be inof said devices, and an independent lock for locking said unlocked bolt-shooting device, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 3d day of December,

JOSEPH LYON. Witnesses:

F. J. MoOoRMIcK, J J osnri-r ABEL, Jr.

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