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1890s Mortise Cylinder - Help, I need information and a key blank!
My next door neighbor has a home built in 1895 (so far as can be told) and i thought nothing of pulling the original lock cylinder to have a new key made. Unfortunately for me, the key is an obsolete key, being of a U shape. The patent on the cylinder I believe says, "Pat. OCT.27-95" Although the "95, could be an 8/9 and a 5/6) One locksmith suggested that the cylinder may be a Schroeder, another says that he may be an Eagle. I guess it has a double pin mechanism that each leg of the key activates. I am curious to the manufacturer, the actual patent date, and I'd like to find a key blank for it. Any help would be much appreciated.
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Wesley
What goes around, comes around.
Thanks for the information, and for the patent! It's really quite an interesting setup, for a lock that doesn't even activate a deadbolt for security. Where does one begin to make blanks? Or are there those out there who do? Is the bottom of the "u" crucial to the key function?
1890s Mortise Cylinder - Help, I need information and a key blank!
Not sure about it as looking up patent number 31278, from L.Yale JR. The reason for is as you look at the key blank it just about close to it.
J.B.Schroder Co. Cylinders Any idea how old?
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Pschiffe
Review of Patent No. 570,032 reveals it was issued Oct. 27, 1896. Inventor was John Luebbers of Cincinnati, Ohio and it was assigned to J.B. Schroeder & Co. also of Cincinnati, OH. They were an old time lock manufacturer from that era but I have little information on them. I did find some reference to old Schroder sectional key blanks from Ilco and Graham but nothing like the cylinder image or patent. See thumbnail attached.
Pete Schifferli
I have a couple of cylinders clearly marked Schroder that are the conventional pin tumbler type. Keys are 6 pin nickel silver, D keyway, (2632GD for the Graham sectional blank) with what I assume is the key code in letters stamped into one side, much like an Eagle key code. The funny thing is the cylinder itself has an entirely different key code stamped on the back of the cylinder in numbers. Searching on the Internet turns up no info about these. Apparently the only pictures are of a few that have shown up on eBay, nothing else. Im going to assume they were not produced for very long just based on their apparent scarcity and the absence of info about them.