Sudhaus Schloss- Und Beschlagtechnik Gmbh & Co.

Klaus Hesse

Ulf G Rasch

Georg Bartsch

Franz Hauschulte

A luggage latch has a housing mounted on a piece of luggage and a latch body or slide displaceable in the housing between a latched and unlatched position and engageable only in the latched position with a latch component on the luggage lid to retain the latch component. A slide button fixed to the latch body is longitudinally displaceable on the housing between a forward position corresponding to the latched position and a back position corresponding to the unlatched position. A plurality of number wheels rotatable on the housing are associated with respective rotatable members and formations can engage between the members and the latch body to prevent movement of the latch body into the unlatched position except when the wheels are in a predetermined angular position. Respective couplings between each of the wheels and the respective member are movable between a coupled position for joint rotation of each member with the respective wheel and a decoupling position for rotation of each member independently of the respective wheel. A coding element connected to the couplings is displaceable between a coded position setting the couplings in the coupled position and a coding position setting the couplings in the uncoupled position. The coding element is wholly enclosed in the housing, is exposed only in the back position of the slide button, and is covered by the slide button in the forward position thereof.

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Sundern-Amecke, Germany

Klaus Hesse