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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 04, 1983
Filed:
Mar. 11, 1981
Applicant:
Inventor:
Wallace E Atkinson, Petersburg, VA (US);
Assignee:
Long Manufacturing Co., Inc., Petersburg, VA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E05B / ; E05B / ; E05B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
70 71 ; 70 86 ; 70 81 ; 70312 ; 70316 ;
Abstract
A combination lock and latching mechanism for desk drawers and similar receptacles, formed of a lock unit having plural, coaxial dial wheels and a stack of hubs therefor which are axially movable to decouple them from the dial wheels for changing the combination, together with a tiltable fence member and a vertically reciprocative locking bolt controlled thereby and by an operating lever accessible from in front of the lock, the lever also being operative to cause disengagement of the wheel hubs from their dial wheels in a predetermined condition of the lock for changing the lock combination.