Patent ID: 6886381

Claim:
Actuating device for a lock, especially in motor vehicle, comprising: an actuating element ( 30 ) and a transmission element ( 20 ); where a catch device ( 21 ) is provided on the transmission element ( 20 ) to transmit the movement of the transmission element to a release element ( 12 ), which cooperates with an actuating linkage for the lock; where the transmission element is an axially movable shaft ( 20 ) with an eccentrically located extension ( 22 ), which shaft can be turned from one of several rotational positions to another by a first securing device ( 11 ); where the actuating element comprises an area ( 31 ) with an eccentrically located extension ( 32 ), which area can be turned from one of several rotational positions to another by the action of a second securing device and is also able to shift approximately in the axial direction; where the end surfaces ( 23 , 33 ) of the extensions face each other and overlap each other in at least one, but not in every, adjustable relative rotational position, whereby in the overlap position an operative connection is formed between the actuating element ( 30 ) and the transmission element ( 20 ) via contact of the end surface ( 23 ) on the end surface ( 33 ); and in at least one further, adjustable, relative rotational position of the extensions ( 22 , 32 ) there is no overlapping of the end surfaces ( 23 , 33 ) and in this non-overlapping position there is no operative connection between the actuating element ( 30 ) and the transmission element ( 20 ), whereby this non-overlapping position in an adjusted position gives up one of the extensions ( 22 , 32 ), regardless of which adjustable rotational position the other extension ( 33 , 23 ) happens to occupy.