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LSS+ Electronic Infobase Edition Version 5.0

The document describes a new lock design that improves security by having no openings in the lock body except for the parallel recesses that hold the key and locking mechanism. When the key is turned, these recesses are blocked so that no tools or explosives can access the lock's internal workings. The design also makes copying the key very difficult since the key's position cannot be felt or observed from outside the lock.

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LSS+ Electronic Infobase Edition Version 5.0

The document describes a new lock design that improves security by having no openings in the lock body except for the parallel recesses that hold the key and locking mechanism. When the key is turned, these recesses are blocked so that no tools or explosives can access the lock's internal workings. The design also makes copying the key very difficult since the key's position cannot be felt or observed from outside the lock.

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LSS+ Electronic Infobase Edition Version 5.

works from the outside through the keyhole. This access through
the keyhole is more or less a defect in all other principles of
lock, as it admits of feeling and manipulating the works for the
purpose of getting information for picking the lock in the
absence of the right key; whereas in the new lock there is no
opening whatever at any time, except the two plain parallel
recesses into which the key and the bit are fitted.

From the moment the turning of the lock commences both these
recesses are effectually blocked up: the one for the bit being
conveyed bodily away from the keyhole, and its place taken by the
solid metal of the cylinder; while the other is completely filled
by the key, which cannot be withdrawn except by turning it back
to the original position.

In consequence of this construction, no injury can be done to the


lock by explosion of gunpowder in the keyhole, the only openings
from the outside being parallel at their sides, and not
communicating with any portion of the interior of the lock; and
the simplicity and solidity of construction are such that the
revolving cylinder is made practically air-tight within its
bearing. This effectually prevents all attempts to open the lock
by picklocks, and leaves no alternative but the attempt to make a
sufficiently accurate copy of the true key.

Secondly, as no clue whatever can be obtained from the outside of


the lock respecting the key required, the attempts upon the lock
are thus limited to the chance of obtaining a wax impression of
the true key. The difficulty of making a counterfeit key
sufficiently correct by this means for opening one of the best of
the previous constructions of lock is very great; but in the new
lock this difficulty is greatly increased by the fact of the
levers remaining absolutely stationary while the stump enters the
gatings in consequence of which the gatings are made so close a
fit to the stump that an exceedingly minute error in the lifting
of any of the levers is sufficient to prevent the lock being
opened.

This extreme delicacy of construction can be carried out


practically without objection in the new lock, because there is
no possibility of putting a strain from the key upon the stump,
so as to cause injury by forcing it at the moment of entering the
gatings, for the only force acting upon the stump at that time is
the uniform pressure of its own spring.

In addition to this source of increased safety, there is the


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