Patent ID: 6684670
Filing Date: 2004-02-03
Classification: E05B,Y10T

Abstract:
A security device comprising:a first component having a through first passageway surrounded by an internal first recess; a second component having a second passageway surrounded by an internal second recess, said first and second components being configured for assembly in a mating relationship with said first and second passageways in communication and coaxial alignment; and a lock having a barrel containing a spring and plunger and carrying radially shiftable locking elements, said plunger being normally biased by said spring in one direction urging said locking elements into expanded positions protruding radially from said barrel, said barrel being insertable into and releasably retained in an unlocked position in said first passageway with said locking elements expanded radially outwardly into said first recess, said barrel being forwardly shiftable by a forwardly applied axial force into a locked position in said second passageway with said locking elements expanded into said second recess and being retractable from said unlocked position in said first passageway by a rearwardly applied axial force, said first recess having forward and rearward surfaces configured to coact with said locking elements in response respectively to said forwardly and rearwardly applied forces to exert reactionary forces urging said locking elements radially inwardly and urging said plunger in the opposite direction to accommodate retraction of said locking elements from said first recess.