Patent ID: 7146832

Claim:
An actuating device for doors or hatches of vehicles, comprising a carrier, which can be attached to an interior of the door; a turret, which has either a lock cylinder or a dummy cylinder for the sake of styling; which turret can be installed in the carrier and/or removed from it by means of a setting movement; wherein the setting movement of the turret has of two components, comprising, first, a plug-in phase for installation or a pull-out phase for removal, wherein the turret is inserted into or pulled out of an opening in the carrier; and second, a shift phase, proceeding transversely to the plug-in or removal direction, where the turret is subjected to a parallel shift in the carrier until at least one lateral shoulder on the turret arrives behind an opposing shoulder on the carrier during installation or moves away from the shoulder during the removal operation; and a screwable locking screw, which secures the installed turret in the carrier, wherein, in the carrier, a rocker arm is pivotably supported, which has both a control curve and a thrust surface, and which can be pivoted between a starting position and an ending position; wherein, during the pivoting actuation of the rocker arm, the control curve shifts a slide, which is guided in the carrier, between two positions, namely, between a release position, representing the starting position of the rocker arm, in which a blocking surface on the slide releases an opposing blocking surface on the turret, and a locking position, representing the end position of the rocker arm, in which the blocking surface of the slide grips the opposing blocking surface and locks the turret in the carrier; wherein, before the installation of the turret, the rocker arm is in its starting position and the slide is in its release position; wherein, during the plug-in phase of the installation procedure, the turret pushes against the thrust surface and thus pivots the rocker arm toward its end position, which the rocker arm fully reaches after the turret has completed the shift phase in the carrier; wherein, the locking screw secures the locking position of the slide on the carrier, whereupon the secured state is present, whereas, in the unsecured state, the locking screw releases the slide so that it is free to shift in the carrier; so that, for removing the turret the rocker arm is pivoted manually back out of its end position, and where, first, the control curve of the rocker arm pushes the slide back toward the release position and, second, the thrust surface of the rocker arm pushes the turret back in the carrier to the point where the pull-out phase can begin.