Locking mechanism

US4796778A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Aesculap-Werke AG vormals Jetter & Scheerer · DE

Inventors

• Klaus Habig · Tuttlingen, DE
• Wolfgang Taschner · Tuttlingen, DE
• Wilfried Wolfle · Bad Dürrheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 21, 1988
• Grant date: Jan 10, 1989
• Expiry date: Mar 21, 2008

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F16B21/16
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In a locking mechanism, in particular, for fixing filter holders on sterilizing containers, with a housing in which a locking member is displaceable between two end positions, namely a first end position in which it engages behind a locking projection, and a second end position in which it releases the locking projection, with a spring means which biases the locking member in the direction towards the first end position, and with an actuating member protruding from the housing for displacement of the locking member, in order to ensure that unlocking does not occur if the actuating member is unintentionally actuated, it is suggested that a second actuating member be provided and that the actuating members be arranged on the housing on opposite sides thereof and be actuatable by displacement in the direction towards the respective other actuating member, the locking mechanism only being unlockable if both actuating members are actuated.