Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Dec., 1887
Complete Left, 8th Feb., 1888
Complete Accepted, 9th Mar., 1888
I, HARRY STANYNOUGHT of 418 Wythe Avenue Brooklyn, in the County of Kings
and State of New York, United States of America, Manufacturer of Writing Inks and
Steel pens, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to improvements in safe locks of that class known as com-
bination locks; and has for its object to provide a lock adapted to be placed in the
body or front wall of the safe at one side of the door aperture, and which cannot be
reached even though a hole were bored in the door of the safe sufficiently large to
admit the entrance of a hand, and wherein the bolts will be so positioned as to render
it difficult to insert powder or other explosive into the lock, and wherein also the door
may be opened with rapidity and ease even in a dim light.
In carrying out the invention, the safe is provided with a hinged door having the
upper, lower, and front edges deeply grooved to receive the bolts of the lock, and a
groove in the hinged edge adapted to receive a fixed rib attached to the hinge jamb. In
the opposite or lock jamb, and likewise in the top and bottom of the door casing, is a
chamber or recess in which are received shaped bolts which, when in the locked
position, project into the grooves of the door and embrace two corners and three sides
of the latter. These bolts swing on pairs of radius links pivoted in recesses counter-
sunk in the rear face of the bolt chamber or recess near the ends and corners of the
bolts. The bolts are thrown independently each by an arm or bit engaging with the
L-shaped bolt near the outer corner, said arms being carried by posts pivoted to
the rear face of the bolt recess or chamber of the lock, these posts being turned by
detachable keys inserted from the outside. The bolts are guided and retained in place
by a guide plate fixed to the central block in the recess and covering the contiguous
ends of their vertical members and by other guide plates covering their horizontal
members and abutting against a vertical strip extending from top to bottom of the
safe and constituting a portion of the front jamb. A locking plate is hinged to the
bottom of the vertical part of the bolt recess or chamber, and this plate is provided
at its free edge with a series of equi-distant fingers and upon the rear face near each
end with blocks or lugs adapted to engage with blocks or lugs on the front faces of
the bolts, this engagement being effected both when the bolts are in the locked and

page_text: unlocked positions. The hinged locking plate is manipulated through an L shaped
pin or lug fixed to its front face in manner hereinafter set forth.
Between the vertical parallel bars of a frame secured at top and bottom of the safe,
a series of discs are pivoted, equalling in number and distance apart, the fingers of the
locking plate. Each disc is provided with a transverse peripheral slot to receive the
corresponding finger of the locking plate, so that when the proper combination is
made, i.e. when all the discs are properly adjusted, the said locking plate may be
swung forward on its hinges and so disengaged from the bolts. The rear bar of the
disc carrying frame is transversely notched opposite each finger, and the said fingers
in their normal position rest in said notches. The spindles of the discs project through
a metal cap plate covering the vertical portion of the bolt recess and through the outer
casing and are provided with knobs for turning them. The cap plate has a central
longitudinal recess wherein a lever is pivoted, one end of said lever being adapted
to engage the hooked pin attached to the hinged locking plate, said lever being operated
by push pins acting on the two ends of the lever respectively.
To set the combination, the detachable plate is removed and the discs are all turned
until the set screws exactly face the door opening; this position will cause the slots
in the opposite face of the discs to be so situated that the locking plate may be swung
forward, he fingers thereof passing through the slots in the discs. The set screws
are now loosened so that the spindles may be turned in the discs, and the knobs
attached to said spindles are thereupon turned until a peripheral notch is brought
opposite the figure to which the combination is to be set. The set screws are then
tightened and the discs thereby made fast on their spindles.
Presuming the safe to be locked, to open the same, the buttons or knobs are each turned
to the proper combination the pin is then pushed in, which swings forward the locking
plate whereof the fingers enter the slots of the various discs. This movement of the
locking plate disengages the blocks upon the locking plate, from the lugs on the bolts
with which they were engaged. The keys introduced in the revolving posts may now be
turned and the bolts drawn back to permit of the door being opened. By pressing the
other push pin, the locking plate is swung back to its normal position whereupon the
bolts are again engaged by the locking plate but in the opposite direction so that
unless the first push pin is again manipulated, the bolts cannot be thrown.
In locking the safe, the parts are manipulated in substantially the same way except
that the knobs or buttons are turned promiscuously after the bolts have been thrown,
in order to keep secret the combination.
The notches upon the spindle knobs, enable them to be set to the proper com-
bination in a very dim light, as the location of the figures becomes, by practice,
familiar to the operator and having the notch as a guide, he will be enabled to readily
bring said notch opposite the proper figure.
Dated this 6th day of December 1887.

page_text: 1, HARRY STANYNOUGHT of 418 Wythe Avenue Brooklyn, in the County of Kings,
and State of New York, United States of America, Manufacturer of Writing Inks and
Steel pens, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement: :-
My Invention relates to improvements in safe locks of that class known as com
bination locks; and has for its object to provide a lock adapted to be placed in the
body or front wall of the safe, at one side of the door aperture, and which cannot be.
reached even though a hole were bored in the door of the safe sufficiently large to
admit the entrance of a hand, and wherein the bolts will be so positioned as to render
it difficult to insert powder or other explosive into the lock, and wherein also the door
may be opened with rapidity and case, even in a dim light.
The Invention consists in placing the lock away from the door and in the body of
the safe, the bolts of the lock having engagement directly with the door; and the
invention further consists in the construction and combination of the several parts, as
will be hereinafter fully set forth and pointed out in the claims.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this
specification, in which figure 1. is a front elevation of a safe having my lock attached.
Figure 2 is a transverse vertical section through line 2-2 of figure 4. Figure 3 is a
transverse vertical section at the rear of figure 2 and on line 3-3 of figure 4. Figure 4
is a horizontal section on line 4-4 of figure 2. Figure 5 is a vertical longitudinal
section on line 5-5 of figure 4, the guide plate being removed from the lock to set
the combination; and figure 6 is a detail sectional view on line 6-6 of figure 4,
illustrating the lever controlling the locking fingers. Similar letters of reference
indicate corresponding parts in all the views.
In carrying out the invention, the safe 1 is provided with a hinged door 2 having
the upper, lower, and front edges deeply grooved, as at 3, to receive the bolts of the
lock, and a groove 4 in the hinged edge adapted to receive a fixed rib 5 attached to
the hinge jamb, as shewn in figures 2, 3, and 4. In the opposite or lock jamb, and
likewise in the top and bottom of the door casing, is a chamber or recess in which are
received shaped bolts 14, 15, which when in the locked position project into the
grooves of the door and embrace two corners and three sides of the latter, the
upper bolt being illustrated in that position in figures 2 and 3. These bolts swing on
pairs of radius links 13, pivoted in recesses 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, countersunk in the
rear face of the bolt chamber or recess, near the ends and corners of the bolts.
In the vertical member of the bolts 14 and 15 in, the upper outer side of the former
and the lower outer side of the latter, a semi-circular slot 16 is cut and in the rear wall
of the recess 6 uncovered by said slot, a horizontal post 17 is pivoted, each post having
an arm 18, the free end of which plays between two pins 19, attached respectively to the
face of the bolts 14 and 15, near their outer edges, at the union of the two members,

page_text: as shewn in figure 3; thus, when the arms 18 are made to travel in the direction of
the door, they carry with them the bolts 14 and 15, throwing said bolts independently
in the slot 3 of the door and locking the same. The outer end of the post 17 is
reduced and provided with a square aperture 20 adapted to receive the rectangular
shank of a detachable key 21 inserted therein through a suitable aperture in the
body of the safe, the handle of which key is upon the outside, as shewn in figures 1, 4,
and 5.
The bolts 14 and 15 are guided and retained in place by a guide plate 23 fixed to
the central block 22 in the recess 6, and covering the contiguous ends of their vertical
members, and by other guide plates 24 covering their horizontal members, and
abutting against a vertical strip 25 extending from top to bottom of the safe, and
constituting a portion of the front jamb. A locking plate 27 is hinged to the bottom
of the vertical part of the bolt recess or chamber 6, and this plate is provided at its
free edge with a series of equidistant fingers 28, as shewn in figures 2 and 6, and upon
the rear face near each end with blocks or lugs 29, as shown in figure 4, adapted to
engage with blocks or lugs 26 on the front faces of the bolts, this engagement being
effected both when the bolts are in the locked and unlocked positions. The hinged
locking plate 27 is manipulated through an L shaped pin or lug 30, fixed to its front
face in manner hereinafter set forth.
Between the vertical parallel bars 32 of a frame 31 secured at top and bottom of
the safe, a series of discs 33 are pivoted, equalling in number and distance apart, the
fingers 28 of the locking plate 27, said discs being secured by set screws 37 on
spindles 36, the heads of the screws being countersunk in grooves 35. Each disc 33
is provided upon the side opposite the set screw, with a transverse peripheral slot 34
to receive the corresponding fingers of the locking plate 27, so that when the proper
combination is made, i.e. when all the discs are properly adjusted, the said locking
plate may be swung forward on its hinges and so disengaged from the bolts. The
rear bar of the disc-carrying frame is transversely notched opposite each finger 28
and the said fingers in their normal position, rest in said notches. The spindles 36
of the discs 33 project through a metal cap plate 38 covering the vertical portion of
the recess 6, as shown in figures 4 and 5; to the inner edge of said plate at each side
of the disc 33, a section of the jamb plate 39 is attached, adapted to rest in the grooved
jamb strip 25, as shewn in figure 2, whereby the upper and lower enclosing sides of
the vertical portion of the recess 6 are formed. The cap plate 38 has a central
longitudinal recess 40 wherein a lever 41 is pivoted, one end of said lever being
adapted to engage the hooked pin 30 attached to the hinged locking plate 27, said
lever being operated by push pins 48, 49, acting on the two ends of the lever
respectively, and the motion of the lever in one direction being limited by the bar 42
and in the opposite direction by a similar bar 43, as illustrated in figure 6.
These
push pins pass through apertures in the front or outer casing 44 of the safe, the
rods 36 also projecting through this casing and being provided upon the outside with
attached knobs 45 containing a notch 46 in the periphery of each, as shewn in
figure 5. Upon the outer casing 44, surrounding each knob or button 45, figures ranging
from 0 to 9 are arranged in a circle forming a dial 47, as shewn in figure 1. The inner
wall of the recess 6 is completed by the insertion of a detachable plate 50, in the
groove of the jamb strip 25, and between the plates 39, as shewn in section in figure 2.
To set the combination, the detachable plate 50 is removed and the discs 33 are
all turned until the set screws 37 exactly face the door opening; this position will
cause the slots 34 in the opposite face of the discs to be so situated that the locking
plate 27 may be swung forward, the fingers thereof passing through the slots in the discs,
as shewn in figure 2. The set screws 37 are now loosened, so that the spindles 36
may be turned in the discs, and the knobs 45 attached to said spindles are thereupon
turned until the peripheral notch 46 is brought opposite the figure to which the com-
bination is to be set; for instance, the lower button may be set at (, the next upon 8,
the next upon 4, as shewn in figure 1, or all may be set upon either one of said
figures. The set screws are then tightened, and the discs thereby made fast on their
spindles 36.

page_text: Presuming the safe to be locked, to open the same the buttons or knobs are each
turned to the proper combination, the pin 48 is then pushed in, which swings forward
the locking plate 27 whereof the fingers enter the slots 34 of the various discs. This
movement of the locking plate disengages the blocks 29 upon the locking plate from
the lugs 26 on the bolts with which they were engaged, as shown in figure 4. The
keys 21 introduced in the revolving posts 17, may now be turned and the bolts 14
and 15 drawn back to permit of the door being opened. By pressing the other push
pin 49, the locking plate is swung back to its norimal position whereupon the lugs 26
are again engaged by the blocks 29, and unless the push pin 48 is again manipulated,
the bolts cannot be thrown.
In locking the safe, the parts are manipulated in substantially the same way, except
that the knobs or buttons are turned promiscuously, after the bolts have been thrown,
in order to keep secret the combination. It will thus be observed that the keys
cannot be turned or the bolts thrown forward or back, until the push pin 48 has been
operated.
The notches 46 upon the spindle knobs 45 enable them to be set to the proper
combination in a very dim light, as the location of the figures upon the dial 47 becomes
by practice familiar to the operator, and having the notch as a guide he will be enabled
to readily bring said notch opposite the proper figure.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1. A safe, having its lock and combination contained in the body at one side of the
door opening, the bolts of which lock are arranged to extend bodily from the jamb
within the said opening, and have engagement with the door, substantially as set forth.
2. The combination, with a safe having a door-opening and a lock and its com-
bination fitted in said safe at one side of the door-opening, of a door fitted to said
opening provided with slotted edges adapted to receive the bolts of the lock, and
means for manipulating said lock, substantially as herein shewn and described.
3. The combination, with a safe having a door-opening and a lock and its com-
bination fitted in the body of the safe at one side of said opening, said lock provided
with
upper and lower angular bolts, pivoted arms adapted to reciprocate said bolts,
and a hinged locking plate adapted to secure said bolts in an open or closed position,
of a door provided with a groove in the edge adapted to receive said bolts, substan-
tially as shewn and described, and for the purposes herein set forth.
4. The combination, with a safe and a lock and its combination fitted in the body of
the safe, said lock provided with an upper and lower angular bolt, pivoted arms
adapted to reciprocate said bolts, a hinged locking plate adapted to engage the bolts,
and means for manipulating said lock plate, of a door fitted in said safe provided with
a groove or slot in the edges thereof, substantially as shewn and described, and for the
purposes herein set forth.
5. The combination, with a safe and a lock and its combination fitted in the
body of the safe, said lock provided with an upper and lower angular bolt, pivoted
arms adapted to reciprocate said bolts, a hinged locking plate adapted to engage the
bolts and having fingers along its free edge, a series of rotary discs slotted to receive
said fingers and adjustably attached to spindles having register notches in their heads,
of a door fitted in said safe provided with slotted edges, substantially as herein shewn
and described.
6. A safe, provided with a lock and its combination within the body, dials upon
said body, and knobs revolving upon said dials, provided with a notch in their
periphery adapted to register with a given number upon said dials, and a door fitted
within the safe having a slotted edge adapted to receive the bolts of the aforesaid lock,
substantially as shewn and described.
7. In a combination lock, the combination, with a safe and a door fitted thereto
having a slotted edge, of the reciprocating angular bolts 14 and 15 adapted to enter
the slots in said door, the key posts 17 having an arm 18 adapted to engage pins 19

page_text: upon the said bolts, and means for securing the bolts in an unlocked or locked position,
substantially as herein shewn and described.
8. In a combination lock, the combination, witha safe and a door fitted thereto
having a slotted edge, of the reciprocating angular bolts 14 and 15 adapted to enter
the slots in said door, the key posts 17 having an arm 18 adapted to engage pins 19
upon said bolts, the hinged finger-carrying locking plate 27, the revoluble discs 33,
provided with a transverse peripheral slot 34 and a slot 35, headed spindles 36
provided with a notch 46 in the periphery of said heads, adapted to register with_a
predetermined figure produced upon the safe body, all arranged to operate sub-
stantially in the manner, and for the purposes, herein set forth.
H. STANYNOUGHT.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London,
Patent Agents.