Warded lock

A tumbler is a very simple door lock, which is usually used in room doors in the apartment interior.

Your name have warded locks of the total of 70 popular, colorful key shapes.

It is considered relatively easy to open warded locks without the proper key with a simple latch hook or a bent wire. Use in external doors can therefore be classified as negligence.

The key of a tumbler lock consists of a round shaft and a key bit, the shape often corresponds to the letters C, S, Z, t and Σ respectively, in the normal and mirror-reversed form. If the beard is additionally provided with millings at the bottom, one speaks of a Chubb lock.

The lock has a keyhole in the shape of the associated key. Can a key be introduced, most locks can be opened even so; There is no second or precise mechanism that checks the key shape. At the turn of the key whose beard reaches into the teeth of a locking bar and pushes it out in the direction of rotation of the key from the lock and enter.

However, this does not apply to locks and keys with additional security features: When the beard is slotted in addition to the side or over has recesses ( Nutbartschlüssel ), decide appropriate locks in the lock, if the key can be turned.

For further protection, can only be moved may the lock when the key pushes up, a metal plate ( guard ) at the upper point of the rotation at the same time. Fits the key, but the beard is too short, the locking bar will not move. However, this protection is not very effective against lock picks.

Warded locks are only suitable for interior doors without safety requirements. For safety doors such as housing exterior doors cylinder locks should be used ( for example, profile cylinder locks). Using a socket lock provides a tumbler make slightly safer.