Lock and protective cover assembly and kit for the same

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1996-01-22

1998-01-06

Dino, Suzanne

Locks

Portable

Padlocks

70 55, 70424, 70455, E05B 6738

Patent

active

057042314

ABSTRACT:
The improved padlock and protective cover assembly includes a flexible resilient cover of natural or elastomeric material releasably disposed around the body of a padlock. The hasp, including its rungs, project up and out of the top of the cover. The cover top is removable from the lower portion of the cover and fits snugly around the rungs to prevent water from contacting the padlock body. That body is disposed snugly within an open-topped insert, the insert also fitting snugly within the lower portion of the cover. Both the insert bottom and the bottom of the lower portion of the cover define an opening up through which a key can be inserted into the lock body to release the hasp. The opening in the cover lower portion bottom is normally closed but can be flexed open. In one embodiment that bottom is specially configured as an upwardly projecting arc to facilitate squeezing the opposite sides of the bottom toward each other to flex open the keyhole. A further embodiment relates to a kit containing the cover lower portion, padlock and a number of tops and inserts to accommodate padlocks of differing dimensions. The multiple components of the assembly and kit are simple and inexpensive to make and use.

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