Cam lock

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1978-09-01

1980-06-24

Wolfe, Robert L.

Locks

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Key

E05B 2704

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042088941

ABSTRACT:
A key operated cam lock including a shell and a rotary key plug and having axially elongated pin tumbler assemblies each comprising a plurality of tumbler elements including a pin tumbler carried by the key plug and a driver carried by the shell. A projection on an end of one of the tumbler elements of each tumbler assembly is received in a slot in the end of another associated element and serves to couple a driver to an associated pin tumbler when the key plug is in locked position. V-shaped bits on the key engagable with complementary V-shaped chisel tips on the pin tumblers axially and angularly position the pin tumbler assemblies in unlocked position wherein slots in various tumbler elements are aligned with annular grooves in the key plug eccentric to the axis of plug rotation. The projections escape from the slots and enter the grooves when the key plug is rotated from locked position toward an unlocked position. The tumbler elements having projections thereon may be axially symmetrical.

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patent: 4103526 (1978-08-01), Surko

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