Combination lock

• US 4,770,013 A
• Filed: 10/26/1987
• Issued: 09/13/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/1987
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Clover Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Clover Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Nakai, Hatsuo
• Primary Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Application Number:
  US07/113,571
• Time in Patent Office: 323 Days
• Field of Search: 70/285, 70/284, 70/21, 70/314, 70/315, 70/316, 70/317, 70/318, 70/312, 70/309, 70/304, 70/305, 70/306, 70/308
• US Class Current: 70/285
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 37/0075 Automatic scrambling
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 37/02 with tumbler discs or rings arranged on a single axis, each disc being adjustable independently of the others
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/7147 Combination or key
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/7316 Combination upsetting
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/7328 Compound tumblers

Abstract

The present invention is of a lock applied to an opening/closing part of a locker for rent or the like, and in a movable member of a door or the like, a combination lock is constituted with a locking mechanism having a cam plate engaging with and disengaging from a catching part of a main unit side and a dial lock having a plurality of dials defining movement of an operation shaft which is disposed in connection with this locking mechanism and engages with and disengages from the movable shaft member of the locking mechanism to define the movement thereof, and particularly in the present invention, a mechanism wherein the utilizer can arbitrarily set numerals for unlocking in the dial lock and a dial restoring mechanism, which restores all numerals of the respective dials to the position of zero after setting of numerals for unlocking are installed.

Claims

1. A combination lock comprising a locking mechanism wherein a cam plate is fixed to a shaft member rotated by finger operation or key operation, an operation shaft which is disposed in connection with this locking mechanism and defines operation of the shaft member and a dial lock having a plurality of dials which are journaled on this operation shaft through a bush and defines movement of the operation shaft, comprising:

a mechanism which sets an arbitrary numeral for unlocking for each dial of said dial lock, and

a dial restoring mechanism which rotates each dial all together by a push button operation and restores numeral of each dial to the position of zero.

2. A combination lock in accordance with claim 1, wherein a retrieving mechanism retrieving numeral for unlocking set in each dial in installed in the dial lock.

3. A combination lock in accordance with claim 1, wherein a defining means limiting the numeral visible range to the front side of the dial is provided in each dial of the dial lock.

4. A combination lock in accordance with claim 1, wherein the locking mechanism comprises an inner cylinder journaled by a housing and a cylinder lock which is journaled by this inner cylinder and whose operating knob is formed in a manner of protruding the end part thereof outside the housing, and is lock comprising a mechanism capable of unlocking by releasing the dial for emergency in the case where the numerals for unlocking are unknown.

5. A combination lock in accordance with claim 1, wherein the dial restoring mechanism restoring all numerals to zero is constituted with a gear installed at the side surface of each dial, a transmission gear which is journaled rotatably on a support shaft disposed in parallel with the operation shaft and engages with said each gear, an eccentric cam formed on the side surface of each transmission gear, a push button disposed in the housing and an operating piece which is disposed in connection with the push butter and returns each eccentric cam to a predetermined position.