Lock with a replaceable cylinder

• US 6,338,261 B1
• Filed: 09/09/1999
• Issued: 01/15/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 09/09/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Ten-Kao Liu
• Original Assignee: Ten-Kao Liu
• Inventors: Liu, Ten-Kao
• Primary Examiner(s): BARRETT, SUZANNE LALE DINO
• Application Number:
  US09/392,532
• Time in Patent Office: 859 Days
• Field of Search: 70/142, 70/32--34, 703/69--71, 704/16, 704/17, 70/51, 70/52
• US Class Current: 70/34
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 67/36 Padlocks with closing means other than shackles ; Removable locks, the lock body itself being the locking element; Padlocks consisting of two separable halves or cooperating with a stud
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/30 Hasp
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/40 Portable
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/443 Single stem or shank
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/7661 Detachable or removable cylinder

Abstract

A lock includes a case with a sleeve received therein. The sleeve is connected to the case by a bolt. A cylinder is rotatably received in the sleeve and a locking bar is connected to the cylinder by a pin, the locking bar having an elongated head engaged with a recess in the case. A plurality of locking pins biased by springs radially extend in to the sleeve. The sleeve can be replaced by removing the bolt from the case, and the cylinder can be disengaged from the locking bar by removing the pin connecting the two members.

Claims

1. A lock comprising:

a case having a slot defined therein and said slot defined by a first inside and a second inside, a recess defined in said first inside and having a narrow neck portion, a passage defined through said second inside, an engaging hole defined in said case and communicating with said passage;

a locking bar having a first end with a groove and an elongated head;

a sleeve connected to a base member, said sleeve and said base member both removably received in said engaging hole, said locking bar received in said sleeve so that said elongated head is received in said recess in said case and an inner periphery defining said narrow neck portion is engaged with said groove in said locking bar, a plurality of chambers defined radially through said sleeve and said base member, each chamber having a tube and a locking pin, both of said tube and said locking pin being biased by a spring received in said chamber in said base member, and

a cylinder having a key hole and rotatably received in said sleeve, said cylinder connected to a second end of said locking bar by a pin.

2. The lock as claimed in claim 1, wherein said narrow neck portion in said recess is defined by two positioning bars respectively located in said recess.

3. The as claimed in claim 1 further comprising a threaded hole defined through said case and communicating with said engaging hole in said case, a notch defined in said base member so that a bolt extends through said threaded hole and is engaged with said notch.