Combination door lock and electrical switch

Claim 1

For advantageous use for a hotel room having a door adapted to be locked for security purposes and an electrically operated air conditioner for cooling said room, a combination door lock and switch for terminating the operation of said air conditioner comprising wall means of said room bounding a door opening, a door pivotally mounted in said door opening, a lock mounted in the pivotally traversable edge of said door, first and second slidably disposed locking bolts of said lock each operatively arranged for sliding movement from a clearance position through a locking stroke into a locking position projected into said room wall means for maintaining said door in a closed condition in said door opening, a first locking bolt actuating means on said door accessible only internally of said room operatively effective to operate one said cooperating locking bolt, a second locking bolt actuating means on said door accessible only externally of said room operatively effective to operate the other said cooperating locking bolt, an electrical circuit and an electrically operated air conditioner operatively associated to provide air conditioning service for said room, and a circuit-breaking switch in said electrical circuit disposed in a strategic location at the terminal end in the path of said locking stroke of said second locking bolt so that incident to said stroke thereof said circuit-breaking switch is actuated to terminate operation of said air conditioner, whereby both said first and second locking bolts are available to be actuated for security purposes, said first locking bolt internally of said room and without effect on said air conditioner and said second locking bolt externally of said room and simultaneously causing the automatic termination of the operation of said air conditioner.