Patent ID: 7260964

Claim:
An actuating device for a door or hatch of a vehicle, comprising a carrier, adapted to be attached to an inside of the door or hatch; a turret, which can be inserted into an opening in the carrier and which has either a lock cylinder or a dummy cylinder for the sake of styling; a slide, which is guided with freedom of longitudinal movement in the carrier and which has a cut-out area which encloses at least a certain part of the inserted turret; wherein at least one shoulder is provided on the slide and an opposing shoulder is provided on the turret; wherein the slide can be shifted with respect to the turret between a locking position and a release position; and wherein, when the slide is in the locking position, the shoulder of the slide projects over the opposing shoulder and thus locks the turret in an inserted position in the carrier opening; whereas, when the slide is in the release position, the shoulder releases the opposing shoulder and allows the turret to be inserted into the carrier or pulled back out of it, wherein the slide has at least one lobe on a top surface thereof pointing in the pull-out direction, which lobe has a radially outer surface pointing away from the inserted turret; the turret having an opposing lobe pointing in the insertion direction, which is a certain radial distance away from an adjacent circumferential zone of the turret and which has a radially inner surface facing the turret; and wherein, when the slide is moved into the locking position, its lobe travels into a radial gap in the turret and thus assumes a position behind the opposing lobe on the inserted turret, where the radially outer surface of the lobe on the slide is supported against the radially inner surface of the opposing lobe, wherein, below the circumferential zone with the opposing lobe, the turret has at least one radial projection; the radial projection has an axial heel oriented toward this circumferential zone; and this axial heel produces the opposing shoulder which cooperates with the slide.