Safety medicine chest

Abstract

Abstract A SAFETY MEDICINE CHEST, WHICH CAN BE MADE ENTIRELY FROM PLASTIC, TO PREVENT UNAUTHORIZED ENTRY BY CHILDREN, INCLUDING A CABINET HAVING OVERLAPPING SLIDING DOORS WITH A LATCH MEMBER CENTRALLY LOCATED TO PREVENT OPENING OF EITHER DOOR UNTIL A LOCK APPARATUS IS OPERATED. THE LOCK APPARATUS INCLUDES A PLURALITY OF ELONGATED TUMBLER MEMBERS EXTENDING ACROSS THE CHEST IN A CHAMBER AT THE LOWER FRONT PORTION OF THE CHEST, THE TUMBLERS BEING DESIGNED TO PERMIT THE LATCH MEMBER TO BE PUSHED DOWNWARDLY AND OUT OF CONFLICT WITH THE MOTION OF THE DOORS ONLY WHEN THEY HAVE BEEN PLACED IN PREDETERMINED RELATIVE LOCATIONS. THE TUMBLERS ARE ACTUATED BY A SLIDE MEMBER WHICH IS OPERABLE FROM THE FRONT OF THE CHEST BY A SLIDE MEMBER WHICH PROTRUDES THROUGH A LOWER FRONT PANEL ON THE CHEST AND IS LINEARLY MOVABLE ACROSS THE FRONT OF THE CHEST. THE SLIDE PROTRUDES THROUGH AN ELONGATED SLOT ABOVE WHICH WORDS ARE IMPRINTED OR EMBOSSED. THE PERMUTATION FOR PROPERLY LOCATING THE TUMBLERS IS ARRIVED AT BY SPELLING A WORD, MOVING THE SLIDE SEQUENTIALLY TO VARIOUS LETTERS IN THE LEGEND ADJACENT THE SLOT. THE FINAL POSITION LOCATES THE SLIDE MEMBER ITSELF ADJACENT THE LATCH CARRYING MEMBER WITHOUT MOVING A TUMBLER, THE SLIDE CONSTITUTING THE FINAL TUMBLER. PORTIONS OF THE DEVICE WHICH MOVE RELATIVE TO EACH OTHER ARE RATCHETED TO PREVENT PICKING THE LOCK. BY USING A WORD FOR THE COMBINATION, OPENING BY ONE WHO CANNOT SPELL, OR WHO DOES NOT KNOW THE KEY WORD, IS PREVENTED.

Inventors

• 👤 Charles S Galtz

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