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    The pin tumbler lock, also known as the Yale lock after the inventor of the modern version, is a lock mechanism that uses pins of varying lengths to prevent...
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    tubular pin tumbler lock, also known as a circle pin tumbler lock, radial lock, or the trademark Ace lock popularized by manufacturer Chicago Lock Company...
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    Lock bumping is a lock picking technique for opening a pin tumbler lock using a specially crafted bump key, rapping key or 999 key. A bump key must correspond...
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    Electromagnetic lock Electronic lock Lever tumbler lock Luggage lock Magnetic keyed lock Mortise lock Padlock Pin tumbler lock Police lock Protector lock Rim lock Time...
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    lock is similar to the pin tumbler lock and works on a similar principle. However, unlike the pin tumbler lock, where each pin consists of two or more...
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    when picking a pin tumbler or wafer lock. It is used to apply torque to the plug of a lock to hold any picked pins in place. Once all pins are picked, the...
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    A lever tumbler lock is a type of lock that uses a set of levers to prevent the bolt from moving in the lock. In the simplest form of these, lifting the...
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    sidebar to drop into the slots, thus opening the lock. Unlike a wafer tumbler lock or a pin tumbler lock, this mechanism does not use springs. Because they...
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    cylinder lock has become common, using a pin tumbler lock in a mortise housing. The parts included in the typical US mortise lock installation are the lock body...
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  • of a pin tumbler lock that contains the pins and pin stack springs as well as the pin stacks themselves. The driver pins of a pin-tumbler lock are located...
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    a pin tumbler lock, often expressed as a number. Bitting also refers to the combination of key cuts on a bit key for a warded lock or lever tumbler lock...
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    as lock pick gun, pick gun, or electric lock pick, is a tool that can be used to open a mechanical pin tumbler lock (a common type of cylinder lock) without...
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    Kryptonite locks used the tubular pin tumbler locking mechanism. In 2005, after it was demonstrated that the tubular pin tumbler locks used on Kryptonite locks...
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    Padlock (redirect from D-Lock)
    and Eagle were one of the first lock makers to machine a solid block of metal and insert a relatively new pin tumbler mechanism and a sliding shackle...
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    the animated displays shows how a pin tumbler lock works. The Yale Room accommodates locks manufactured by the Yale Lock company from 1860 to 1950. One of...
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    attached. The lock mechanism is typically a tubular pin tumbler lock or, less frequently, a flat key lock or a numeric combination lock with no key. Several...
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    similar equipment. Luggage locks based on a pin tumbler lock design usually use only three or four pins, making them susceptible to lockpicking, even...
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    Yale secured eight patents, encompassing items like the pin tumbler safe lock, safe lock, bank lock, vault, safe door bolt, and padlock, registered with...
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    in the set of locks. For example, master keyed pin tumbler locks often have two shear points at each pin position, one for the change key and one for the...
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  • A keycard lock is a lock operated by a keycard, a flat, rectangular plastic card. The card typically, but not always, has identical dimensions to that...
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    Locksmithing (redirect from Lock smith)
    patent lock casing constructed out of laminated steel. Linus Yale Sr. invented a pin tumbler lock in 1848. Linus Yale Jr. improved upon his father's lock in...
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    more applicable to current locksmithing applications such as pin-tumbler or wafer-tumbler locks. In double-sided locksets (meaning locksets where the key...
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    similarities with a modern tubular pin tumbler lock, but used fixed wafers instead of two-part pins. The original Bramah lock had 18 different wafers, which...
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    patented a pin tumbler lock for use in banks in 1851; he patented his pin tumbler lock for use in doors in 1863; in 1865 he patented the pin tumbler padlock...
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    the number of magnetic-coded lock key combinations, C {\displaystyle C} is the number of conventional pin-tumbler lock combinations, m {\displaystyle...
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  • Chicago Lock Co. is a lock manufacturer, founded in Chicago in 1920. Since 1933, it has sold a tubular pin tumbler lock marketed under the registered...
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    secured by a pin with several teeth on it which hook into the rotating discs. When the notches in the discs align with the teeth on the pin, the lock can be...
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    rotating cam. A common example of a linear cam is a key for a pin tumbler lock. The pins act as followers. This behavior is exemplified when the key is...
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  • used to enclose a troughed conveyor belt Tubular pin tumbler lock, or tubular lock, a type of lock using a tubular key Tubular NDT, nondestructive testing...
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  • a tubular pin tumbler lock on the computer's casing, performing a security function that varied by manufacturer. In some instances, the lock would prevent...
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