Patent ID: 8776561

Claim:
An improved door knob unlocking apparatus for a door knob lock having a cylinder rotatably disposed within a barrel of a door knob, the cylinder including a pair of opposing cylinder lugs extending radially inward from a rear wall of the cylinder wherein the rear wall of the cylinder includes a slot therethrough whereby a distal end of a longitudinal shaft extending from a cam mechanism of the lock cooperatively engages the cylinder lugs for locking and unlocking an opposing connecting second doorknob and allowing the first doorknob and second doorknob to turn, the cylinder and the barrel having a plurality of parallel transverse coaxial pairs of cylindrical voids formed therein and a spring urging a plurality of pins of various lengths cooperatively engaging the barrel through corresponding coaxial cylindrical voids, one pin above the other, toward a center of the cylinder, the cylinder having a key way formed in a first end thereof, the pin pairs preventing the turning of the cylinder within the barrel unless the pins are urged against the springs at a selected position wherein each of a top one of the pairs is totally contained within the cylindrical void formed within the barrel and each of a lower one of the pin pairs is totally contained within the cylindrical voids formed within the cylinder, wherein a selected key inserted into the key way aligns the pins for turning the cylinder within the barrel, the cylinder including an aperture formed within a second end thereof, wherein the apparatus improvement comprises: a pin lifting tool comprising a first longitudinal member extending from the end thereof, said first longitudinal member having a width and height less than said key way and a length sufficient to contact and lift all of said pin pairs up into said cylindrical voids; and a forked tool comprising a second longitudinal member including a fork formed on a distal end thereof, said fork having a width and height less than said key way, said second longitudinal member having a length sufficient to extend pass said pins, and thorough said slot in said rear wall of said cylinder to cooperatively engage a distal end of said rectangular shaft, said forked tool passing through said key way beneath said first longitudinal member of said pin lifting tool holding said pin pairs within said cylindrical voids for locking or unlocking said door knob lock.