Patent ID: 8769999

Claim:
A combination lock comprising: a lock body; a shackle having a long leg and a short leg, the short leg being secured within the lock body when the lock is in a locked condition and separable from the lock body when the lock is in an unlocked condition and the shackle is extended from the lock body in an axial direction; a blocker disposed within the lock body, an entirety of the blocker being slideable along the axial direction between a shackle securing position, in which the blocker causes at least one locking member to engage with the shackle, and a shackle releasing position, in which the blocker allows the at least one locking member to disengage from the shackle for separation of the short leg from the lock body; and a plurality of user graspable dials coaxially aligned and rotatable about a post, each of the plurality of dials including a recess disposed on an outer periphery of the dial, wherein when each of the plurality of dials is rotated to an unlocking orientation, each of the recesses aligns with a corresponding dial engaging portion of the blocker, allowing the blocker to slide along the axial direction from the shackle securing position to the shackle releasing position, with each of the dial engaging portions being received in a corresponding one of the recesses.