Security lock, for doors in installation/mounting in caravans in particular

• US 6,357,803 B1
• Filed: 03/09/2000
• Issued: 03/19/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 03/10/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Dometic GmbH (Dometic Group AB)
• Original Assignee: Electrolux Siegen GmbH
• Inventors: Lorek, Manfred
• Primary Examiner(s): Knight, Anthony
• Assistant Examiner(s): JACKSON, ANDRE L
• Application Number:
  US09/521,789
• Time in Patent Office: 740 Days
• Field of Search: 292/DIG.4, 292/46, 292/124, 292/121, 292/122, 292/126, 292/238, 292/95, 292/96, 292/99, 292/128, 292/198, 292/219, 292/220, 292/254, 292/322, 292/341.15, 292/341.17, 493/22, 493/64, 493/79, 493/94, 493/95, 494/49, 495/03
• US Class Current: 292/99
• CPC Class Codes: E05C 19/022 Released by pushing in the closing direction
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 292/093 Cam
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 292/0948 Closure
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 292/702 Pivoted or swinging

Abstract

In a security lock, for doors of furniture in particular, like e.g. built-in furniture in caravans, which are exposed to substantial forces in case of accidents, an engagement part 2 of a spring-charged pivotable bolt 5 is provided for which with a head part 8 in case of interlocking interlocks in a recess 9 of a receiving member 4. Interlocking takes place between a housing-integrated bordering wall 10 of said recess 9 and a cam 12 pivotably supported in said receiving member 4. Said cam 12 comprises diametrically opposed end sections 13, 14 of which the free end section 13 not facing said head part 8 of said bolt 5 can cooperate with a pin member 15 provided for on said engagement part 2. Said pin member in case of intended unlocking presses on said free end section 13 of said cam 12, whereby said end section 14 being in contact with said head part 8 of said bolt 5 in the manner of two inclined planes 16, 17 sliding one on the other, of said cam 12 pivots said head part 8 of said bolt 5 into an unlocked position.

Claims

1. A security lock, for doors of installations/mountings in caravans in particular, with an engagement part mountable on the doors and a receiving member mountable on the installation which can interlockingly cooperate with said engagement part, characterized in that in said engagement part (2) it comprises a spring-charged pivotable bolt (5) which in case of interlocking interlocks into a recess (9) of said receiving member (4), namely between a housing-integrated bordering wall (10) serving for interlocking, of said recess (9) and a cam (12) pivotably supported in said receiving member (4), with diametrically opposing end sections (13;

14) of which the free end section (13) not facing said head part (8) of said bolt (5) can cooperate with a pin member (15) provided for on said engagement part (2) such that it presses onto the free end section (13) of said cam (8) for intended unlocking, this permitting the end section (14) being in contact with said head part (8) of said bolt (7) in the manner of two inclined planes (16;

17) sliding one on the other, of said cam (12) to pivot said head part (8) of said bolt (5) into an unlocking position.

2. The security lock as defined in claim 1, characterized in that said bolt (5) is built like a hook and is pivotable in clockwise direction into the interlocking position against a spring force (6).

3. The security lock as defined in claim 1, characterized in that at least one element (18) compressible against a resilient force (19) is provided for between said engagement part (2) and said receiving member (4), which can be compressed in interlocking direction against its spring force and thereby exert a pressing force onto said hook-shaped bolt (5) in its interlocking position in the area of its engaging surface (10).

4. The security lock as defined in claim 3, characterized in that said compressible element is a sealing, a door sealing in particular, which can cooperate with a complementary sealing surface.

5. The security lock as defined in claim 3, characterized in that said compressible element is formed as stop pin (18) cooperating with a pressure spring (19).

6. The security lock as defined in claim 1, characterized in that said engaging section (21) of said hook-shaped head part (8) of said bolt (5) is formed as wedge whose long cross-section corresponds to a rectangular triangle of which the hypotenuse serves as inclined sliding plane (17) for said cam (12).

7. The security lock as defined in claim 1, characterized in that said housing-integrated bordering wall (10) serving for interlocking of said head part (8) of said bolt (5), of said recess (9) is inclined in the run-in area (22).

8. The security lock as defined in claim 1, characterized in that said end section (14) coming into contact with said head part (8) of said bolt (5), of said cam (12) in long cross-section approximately corresponds to that of an unequal truncated pyramid, wherein in unlocked condition the covering surface of said truncated pyramid extends approximately in plane with the upper edge of said housing-integrated bordering wall (10) of said recess (9) and the preferably shorter pyramid leg lies within said inclined plane (16) which can cooperate with the corresponding inclined plane (17) of said head part (8).

9. The security lock as defined in claim 8, characterized in that said covering surface of said cam at the transition to the inclined plane (16) has a strip-like shoulder (23) extending in cross direction by which the sharp edge of said head part (8) of said bolt (5) can move said cam (12) in its various positions.

10. The security lock as defined in claim 1, characterized in that said end section (13) cooperating with said pin member (15) for intended unlocking, of said cam (12) in long cross-section is formed as acute triangle and is arranged such that in interlocked condition a cathetus surface extends almost in parallel to said bordering wall (10) of said recess (9) of said receiving member (4).