Key-operated door locking device

• US 3,975,934 A
• Filed: 03/20/1975
• Issued: 08/24/1976
• Est. Priority Date: 03/20/1975
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: David Babai, Joseph Shabtai
• Original Assignee: David Babai, Joseph Shabtai
• Inventors: Shabtai, Joseph, Babai, David
• Primary Examiner(s): Wolfe, Robert
• Assistant Examiner(s): Craig, A.
• Application Number:
  US05/560,115
• Time in Patent Office: 523 Days
• Field of Search: 70/82, 70/116, 70/120, 70/123
• US Class Current: 70/120
• CPC Class Codes: E05C 9/06 with three or more sliding bars for watertight doors in bulkheads of vessels B63B43/24, B63B43/32; for safe doors E05B65/0075; covers or similar closures for pressure vessels F16J13/00
• CPC Class Codes: E05C 9/10 Actuating mechanisms for bars E05C9/02 - E05C9/06 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: E05C 9/14 with pins engaging slots E05C9/025, E05C9/042 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: E05C 9/16 with crank pins and connecting rods E05C9/043 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/5115 Multiple bolts
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/5279 Key operable only

Abstract

A key-operated door locking device includes a conventional rim lock adapted to be mounted to one side of the door and having a bolt projectable and withdrawable with respect to the door frame by means of a dog carried on the lock cylinder and rotatable by the insertion and rotation of the proper key. The locking device further includes a coupling between the cylinder dog and a rotatable member eccentrically mounting three pivotable rods extending completely across the door so as to be projectable and withdrawable from the three remaining sides of the door, the coupling being effective, upon the rotation of the cylinder dog by the proper key, not only to cause the bolt to be projected into or withdrawn from its respective recess, but also to cause the rotatable member to be rotated and thereby to project or withdraw the rods with respect to their respective recesses.

Claims

1. A key-operated door locking device including a lock casing mountable adjacent to one side of a door and having a keyhole for the insertion of a key;

a cylinder within the casing and rotatable by the proper key when inserted into the keyhole and rotated therein;

a dog carried by the cylinder and rotatable therewith;

a bolt engageable by the dog and adapted to be projected and withdrawn with respect to the casing into and out of a recess in the door frame at said one side of the door;

a rotatable member rotatably mounted on an axis substantially parallel to the axis of the keyhole;

at least two rods each pivotably mounted at one end to a different eccentric point on the rotatable member and extending to the upper and lower edges of the door so as to be projected into further recesses in the door frame upon the rotation of the rotatable member in one direction, and to be withdrawn therefrom upon the rotation of the rotatable member in the opposite direction;

a coupling between the cylinder dog and the rotatable member effective, upon the rotation of the dog by the proper key to cause the bolt to be projected into or withdrawn from its respective recess, also to cause the rotatable member to rotate and to project or withdraw the rods from their respective recesses; and

a spring-biassed catch;

said bolt including a tail having notches formed along one edge cooperable with the cylinder dog for projecting and withdrawing the bolt and for rotating the rotatable member to project and withdraw the rods, and further notches along another edge cooperable with said spring-biassed catch for securing the bolt and the rods in their projected or withdrawn positions.

2. A device as defined in claim 1, wherein said coupling includes a push-pull rod connected between the tail of the bolt and said rotatable member.

3. A device as defined in claim 1, wherein said rotatable member includes a catch which is released by the rotation of the dog before the dog rotates same to project or withdraw the rods.

4. A device as defined in claim 1, wherein said coupling includes a toothed wheel rotatably mounted on an axis parallel to the rotatable member and keyhole axes and rotatable by the dog for rotating the rotatable member.

5. A device as defined in claim 4, wherein the teeth of said toothed wheel engage recesses in the rotatable member for rotating same, the locking device further including a spring-biassed pivotable plate having a catch seatable in a recess of the rotatable member for securing same and the rods in their projected or withdrawn positions, the dog of the cylinder being effective, upon its rotation by the proper key, to first engage said pivotable plate to release the catch before engaging the toothed-wheel to rotate same and the rotatable member.

6. A device as defined in claim 1, wherein each rod is pivotably mounted at one end to the rotatable member by means of a link pivotable at one end to the rotatable member and connected at the other end to the respective rod.

7. A device as defined in claim 6, further including a plate formed with a pair of slots aligned with each other and with the axis of rotation of the rotatable member, said rods each including a guide element received in one of said slots and guiding the movement of the rod such that in the projected position of the rod, it is aligned with the pivotable end of its respective link and with the axis of rotation of the rotatable member.

8. A door including a locking device as defined in claim 1, the lock casing being mounted adjacent to one side of the door with the lock bolt projectable and withdrawable with respect to said side, the rotatable member including three rods projectable and withdrawable with respect to the remaining three sides of the door.

9. A key-operated door locking device including a lock casing mountable within a door and having a keyhole for the insertion of a key;

a cylinder within the casing and rotatable by the proper key when inserted into the keyhole and rotated therein;

a rotatable member rotatably mounted on an axis substantially parallel to the axis of the keyhole, said rotatable member including a recess;

at least two rods each pivotably connected at one end to a different eccentric point on the rotatable member and extending to the upper and lower edges of the door so as to be projected into further recesses in the door frame upon the rotation of the rotatable member in one direction, and to be withdrawn therefrom upon the rotation of the rotatable member in the opposite direction;

a coupling between the cylinder and the rotatable member effective, upon the rotation of the cylinder by the proper key, to cause the rotatable member to rotate and to project or withdraw the rods from their respective recesses;

a pivotable plate including a catch;

a spring for biassing said pivotable plate to seat its catch into said recess of the rotatable member; and

a member carried by said cylinder for pivoting the pivotable plate to unseat its catch from said recess in the rotatable member before the cylinder rotates same to project or withdraw the rods.

10. A device as defined in claim 9, wherein said coupling includes a toothed wheel rotatably mounted on an axis parallel to the rotatable member and keyhole axes and rotatable by the cylinder for rotating the rotatable member;

said rotatable member including a plurality of recesses engaged by the teeth of said toothed wheel for rotating the rotatable member upon rotation of the cylinder.