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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2023
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2022
K.a. Schmersal Holding Gmbh & Co. KG, Wuppertal, DE;
Christian Uhlenbrock, Schwerte, DE;
Thomas Buchwald, Düsseldorf, DE;
Yasar Cevic, Hagen, DE;
Tobias Gerbracht, Wuppertal, DE;
K.A. Schmersal Holding GmbH & Co. KG, Wuppertal, DE;
Abstract
A locking device having a guard lock for safety doors includes a mechanical actuator which can be fastened on a movable door part and a housing which interacts with the actuator and can be fastened to a door counterpart. The housing includes a receptor to which the actuator can be inserted, and the housing comprises a locking element which is displaceable between an unlocked position, in which the actuator can be released, and a locked position, in which the actuator can be fixed relative to the receptor. The actuator comprises an engagement tongue having an engagement recess for mechanical operative engagement with a head end of a locking element in form of an engagement plunger, the engagement plunger being guided in the housing so as to be longitudinally displaceable in a spring-biased manner in the in a plunger longitudinal direction relative to an inner fixed bearing.