Sargent & Greenleaf, Inc.

Bert Krivec

Gary R Murphree

Walter R Evans

A two movement time lock for bank vault doors and the like including a lock case for enclosing the timer units and a cover having transparent portions through which the dials of the timer units can be viewed. A pivoted integral locking lever of generally inverted distorted 'T' shaped configuration has a pair of oppositely extending foot formations to be engaged and moved by trip formations of the timer units and a spring biased lever is interlinked with the locking lever above the pivot for normally positioning the locking lever at a cocked position when timer unit dials are displaced from the zero position. A pivoted snubber-bar blocking lever in the lock case is normally spring biased to a release position freeing a snubber bar to move to an unlocking position and a spring biased plunger has a first plunger position for forcing the blocking lever to snubber-bar blocking position and has a portion engagable by the locking lever for releasably restraining the plunger in such position when the locking lever is in cocked position.

Two movement time lock

A selectively illuminated digit display combination lock dial assembly to be coupled to the spindle of a combination lock for dialing a lock opening combination of numbers, including a rotatable dial member to dial the numbers of the combination, a dial backup case to be mounted on a security container having a coupling member journaled therein connected with the spindle and with the dial member. The backup case having a sight passage and digit numeric generating and display device located outwardly of the dial member periphery to generate and visually display numbers signifying the dial member angular positions. An encoder disc is rotated in correlation with the coupling member having plural light passing slots for activating sensors to produce electrical count signals, and electronic circuitry counts the count signals and senses direction of dial rotation to activate the numeric display device to show numeric dial positions upon reaching a first number of revolutions and to activate the numeric display device to show numeric dial position when predetermined numbers of revolutions are reached in a predetermined sequence.

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Lexington, KY, United States of America

Bert Krivec