Lock for vending apparatus

• US 3,336,773 A
• Filed: 07/01/1965
• Issued: 08/22/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 07/01/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: James H. Oechslin
• Original Assignee: James H. Oechslin
• Inventors: Oechslin, James H.
• Application Number:
  US04/468,766
• Time in Patent Office: 782 Days
• US Class Current: 70/337
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 35/12 requiring the use of two keys, e.g. safe-deposit locks locks with key-operated keyhole cover E05B17/142
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 63/143 Arrangement of several locks, e.g. in parallel or series, on one or more wings
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/12 comprising lockable containers, e.g. for accepting clothes to be cleaned
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 9/105 Heating or cooling means, for temperature and humidity control, for the conditioning of articles and their storage dispensers for food articles requiring a processing by temperature treatment or conditioning before they are ready for dispensing G07F17/0064
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/7446 Multiple keys
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/7768 Key-removal preventing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/778 Operating elements
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/80 Parts, attachments, accessories and adjuncts

Claims

1. FOR USE WITH A DOOR, A LOCK ASSEMBLY COMPRISING:

A MOUNTING FRAME;

A MASTER LOCK HAVING A MASTER LOCK HOUSING AND A KEY ACTUATUED MASTER LOCK TUMBLER POSITIONED IN SAID MASTER LOCK HOUSING FOR MOVEMENT RESPONSIVE TO ACTUATION BY A KEY;

A MASTER BOLT MOUNTED IN SAID MASTER HOUSING FOR MOVEMENT BETWEEN A RETRACTED POSITION AND A LATCHING POSITION;

MEANS IN SAID MASTER HOUSING NORMALLY URGING SAID MASTER BOLT TOWARD SAID LATCHING POSITION;

A DOOR LOCK ON SAID FRAME ADJACENT SAID MASTER LOCK, SAID DOOR LOCK HAVING A DOOR LOCK HOUSING WITH A KEY ACTUATED DOOR LOCK TUMBLER MOUNTED IN SAID DOOR LOCK HOUSING FOR MOVEMENT RESPONSIVE TO ACTUATION BY A SECOND KEY FROM A FIRST POSITION WHEREIN SAID SECOND KEY MAY BE INSERTED INTO AND WITHDRAWN FROM THE DOOR TUMBLER TO POSITIONS AWAY FROM SAID FIRST POSITION WHEREIN A PREVIOUSLY INSERTED SECOND KEY MAY NOT BE WITHDRAWN FROM THE DOOR TUMBLER;

A DOOR BOLT MOUNTED IN SAID DOOR HOUSING FOR MOVEMENT BETWEEN A RETRACTED UNLOCKING POSITION AND AN EXTENDED DOOR LOCKING POSITION, SAID DOOR BOLT BEING CONNECTED TO SAID DOOR TUMBLER FOR MOVEMENT RESPONSIVE TO MOVEMENT OF SAID DOOR TUMBLER BY SAID SECOND KEY SO THAT WHEN SAID KEY IS IN SAID FIRST POSI-