US Patent 3,312 · 20 Oct 1843

Combination safety-lock for doors

by Linus Yale and Charles Wilson, Springfield, Massachusetts

Patent drawing of a lock case opened to show two pairs of notched disks and the bolt
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Linus Yale and Charles Wilson's combination safety-lock, US patent 3,312 of 1843, sheet 1. Public domain, via Google Patents.

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