lock information research

[fallscrape]

Let me just say I'm not actually peddling my warez, but something just occured to me - I work for a large patent search engine company, and we have all sorts of online images of inventions.

These are all available from their representative patent offices - british library does them as well.

Each of these patented locks has c-sections of the locks and text on how they work (and what makes them different to usual locks).

So if you're looking for some indepth info on patented locks, go looky at the patent info and see if it helps :- ) Google and you ought to find some free engines and some commercial.

I won't go into any sales spiel, 'cos if I do, I'll likely be banned and I don't want my new hobby to be taken away from me ;- )

[Mad Mick]

Let me just say I'm not actually peddling my warez...

No, you aren't, but you could 'pimp' some relevant patent numbers to us, to aid in our searches.

[Chrispy]

No, you aren't, but you could 'pimp' some relevant patent numbers to us, to aid in our searches.

Pimp it baby.

[Dimmy Locks]

Pick Pimp............That is so much cooler than Dimmy Locks. <sigh>

[Chrispy]

Hehe.

*Dimmy Locks suddenly disappears forever. The new member "Pick Pimp" seems to share strangely similar characteristics....*

[fallscrape]

give me some relevant search terms, and I'll post some results :- )

[bubbashitz]

A few U.S. keyable lock patents. They can be downloaded for free at on-line patent office.
1,565,556
1,610,224
1,965,889
2,139,842
2,194,469
2,232,017
2,370,862
2,391,832
2,895,323
2,977,786
3,149,486
3,183,692
3,190,093
3,320,781
3,589,153
3,667,262
3,726,116
3,999,413
4,015,458
4,069,694
4,094,175
4,142,391
4,320,639
4,440,009
4,689,978
4,712,399
4,712,401
4,712,402
4,732,023
4,836,002
4,899,563
4,909,053
5.209. 088
5.211.044
5.233. 850
5.428. 978
5.431. 034
5.540. 071
5.640. 865
5.704. 234
5.718. 136
5.752. 400
5.765. 417
5.791. 181
5.884. 512
5.921. 122
5.921. 123
5.970. 760
5.979. 200
6.029. 484
6.047. 577
6.076. 386
6.079. 240
6.119. 495
6.134. 928
6.142. 717
6.295. 850
6.425. 274
6.516. 643
6.523. 378
6.532. 782
6.564. 601
6.860. 131
I have some of them on my workshop wall.

[pickmonger]

To access these patents go to

http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/srchnum.htm

and keyin the number in the search box.

If you want the entire patent including images (tiff format) you need to have the proper viewer installed.

http://www.uspto.gov/patft/help/images.htm gives a link to install a tiff viewe that works with United States Patent Offices.

For a more general type search try http://www.uspto.gov/patft/

All patents from 1976 onward can be easily searched.

For older patents you can only search by patent number and or a classification number. The classification numbers are something like the numbers the library uses to identify the topics of books.

To properly dig out the best of the patents will take a certain amount of skill. Frequently patents do not mention the word lockpicking or even locksmith in them. Finding key words to search on is not always that easy.

Its a great treasure hunt ....

Also ..... there are excelent patents issued by the governments of Canada, Japan, Germany, United Kingdom, etc etc ...

Here is A to B of my list to get you started. If there is enough interest I will post the rest that I have indexed.


ANTIPICK PIN TUMBLER LOCK 1860712
ANTI-RAP MOUNTING FOR PERMUTATION LOCK ELELMENTS 4047406
APPARATUS FOR DECODING WAFER COMBINATION LOCKS 4517746
APPARATUS FOR DETERMING CODE OF KEYS FOR CYLINDER 1991154
APPARATUS FOR MUTUAL INFORMATION TRANSMISSION 4602253
APPARATUS FOR PICKING AND DECODING SIDEBAR LOCKS 5325691
APPARATUS FOR PICKING LOCKS 2059376
APPARATUS FOR PICKING PIN TUMBLER CYLINDER LOCKS 4156375
AXIAL SPIT-PIN TUMBLER-TYPE LOCK 3813906
AXIAL TUMBLER LOCK 4006615
BATTERY-POWERED DOOR LOCK ASSEMBLY AND METHOD 4802353