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  2. Mortise lock - Wikipedia

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    Manufacturers of mortise locks in the United States include Accurate, Arrow, Baldwin, Best, Corbin Russwin, Emtek Products, Inc, Falcon, Penn, Schlage, Sargent, and Yale. Distributors such as Nostalgic Warehouse carry a wide range of decorative trim and accessories to dress up the appearance of a lock installation.

  3. Lock Museum of America - Wikipedia

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    The Corbin-Russwin Room contains a large display of ornate hardware. Several pieces are gold plated and enameled. One of 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.

  4. Lever tumbler lock - Wikipedia

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    Animation of a lever tumbler lock mechanism. A lever tumbler lock is a type of lock that uses a set of levers to prevent the bolt from moving in the lock. [1] In the simplest form of these, lifting the tumbler above a certain height will allow the bolt to slide past.

  5. Deadbolt - Wikipedia

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    A deadbolt or deadlock is a type of lock morticed into a wooden door where a bolt is thrown into the door frame, using a key from either side, to secure the door. [ 1 ] It is distinct from a spring bolt lock because a deadbolt can only be opened by a key or handle.

  6. Door lock - Wikipedia

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    a deadbolt lock; a door chain; a locking door handle; an electromagnetic lock, which holds a door shut when electricity is supplied to it; a keycard lock, commonly used on hotel doors; a mortise lock, a lock installed in a hollowed-out pocket within a door; a rim lock, a lock fixed to the exterior of the door

  7. Mortiser - Wikipedia

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    A chain mortiser used in timber framing. For cutting larger mortises such as those used in timber frame construction, chain mortisers are commonly used. A chain with cutters (similar to a chainsaw chain) rotating within a frame clamped to the work is successively plunged into the workpiece to mortise out the required volume.

  8. Peterson's algorithm - Wikipedia

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    Peterson's algorithm (or Peterson's solution) is a concurrent programming algorithm for mutual exclusion that allows two or more processes to share a single-use resource without conflict, using only shared memory for communication.

  9. Deadbolt (film) - Wikipedia

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    Deadbolt is a 1992 made-for-television psychological thriller film, by Douglas Jackson, and starring Justine Bateman and Adam Baldwin. Plot