Locks – Operating mechanism – Using a powered device
Patent
1992-06-29
1993-02-09
Gall, Lloyd A.
Locks
Operating mechanism
Using a powered device
70389, 70453, 70DIG30, 200 4306, H01H 2708
Patent
active
051844907
ABSTRACT:
A key switch assembly, which can reliably eliminate swinging of the key end and erroneous operation due to incomplete insertion of a key. A guide extends rearward of a lock cylinder received in a lock body and parallel to a switch juxtaposition. One side of the guide is aligned to an extension of a key groove surface and is provided with an axial positioning ridge for engagement with an axial positioning groove formed in a side of the key. A restricting front face of a guide disk secured to the lock body is held in contact with the rear face of the lock cylinder. The guide disk is provided with a restricting notch, the radius of curvature of an arcuate edge of which is made smaller than the radius of rotation of the key. The key has an edge provided with an escapement groove, into which the arcuate edge escapes when the key inserted to a predetermined depth is turned, and the guide has its stem provided with an escapement groove, which is engaged by the arcuate edge.
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patent: 5092148 (1992-03-01), Rong-Long
Gall Lloyd A.
Smolowitz Martin
Takigen Manufacturing Co. Ltd.
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