Patent ID: 6363758
Filing Date: 2002-04-02
Classification: E05B,Y10T

Abstract:
A cable combination lock comprising:a housing; a cable having a fixed end portion thereof fixed in a first hole formed in a first side portion of said housing, and having a locking plug secured on a movable end portion of said cable insertable and lockable in a second hole formed in a second side portion of said housing opposite to said first hole; a plurality of dials and sleeves, each said dial resiliently coupled with each said sleeve, rotatably mounted on a bolt means longitudinally disposed in said housing adjacent to said first hole, having a first longitudinal axis defined at a longitudinal center of said bolt means, said fixed end portion of said cable parallel to said first longitudinal axis; and a control means including a push button pivotally secured in said housing and normally protruding outwardly through a button hole formed in the second side portion of said housing ready for depression thereon, and a sliding actuator normally contacted with said push button and slidably held in said housing adjacent to said second hole for locking said locking plug of said cable when locking the combination lock; said locking plug inserted in said second hole of said housing, having a second longitudinal axis defined at a center of said second hole to be separated from said first longitudinal axis with an acute angle ranging from 30Ëœ45 degrees, with said locking plug when inserted and locked in said second hole separating from said fixed end portion of said cable with said acute angle; whereby upon depression of said push button, said sliding actuator will be inwardly driven by said push button to downwardly depress said bolt means to disengage said locking plug from said sliding actuator for unlocking said plug of said cable from said housing; said locking plug including: a plug head formed on a bottom portion of said plug, a locking rim formed in between said plug head and a neck portion recessed in said plug, and an ejecting spring retained in a central hole formed in said plug; said plug, when inserted into said second hole in said housing, having said central hole of said plug operatively receiving a rod member inclinedly secured in said housing and forming said acute angle as separated from said first longitudinal axis to allow said rod member to compress said ejecting spring within said plug for storing the resilience of the ejecting spring; whereby upon engagement of said locking rim of said plug with said sliding actuator when inserting said plug in said second hole, said plug will be locked with said sliding actuator in said housing; and upon disengagement of said sliding actuator from said locking rim, said plug will be resiliently ejected by said ejecting spring as retained on said rod member; andsaid push button including a depression portion formed on an upper portion of said push button to be normally contacted with a follower portion formed on an outer portion of said sliding actuator; said sliding actuator slidably held in said housing having a central hole formed in said actuator for passing said plug through said central hole for locking said plug with said actuator which is held between said push button and said bolt means.