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, SyO FEDERAL REPORTER, �, or more winding devices, whereby, the lock being attacbed to tbft.safe door, the time mechanisni can be wound from the exterior of the case while the safe door is open, but is inac- cessible when said door is closed." �I So far as the first claim is concerned, the alleged invention is simply securing the door of a time look with a key, and providing such door with an aperture through which the clock can be wound. In view of the Eutherford clock, the watch- man's time detector, and, indeed, the clocks and watehes which are commonly in use, the improvement seems to me to have been so obviously and plainly a mechanical one, that it is unnecessary to dwell upon this part of the case. �The Sargent invention, being re-issue No. 7,947, consisted, in the language of the specification — " Third, in the combi- nation, with the boit work of a safe or vault door, of a combi- nation lock, controUable mechanieally from the exterior of said door, with a time lock controUable automatically for unlocking by the operation of its time mechanism ; both of said locks arranged to control the locking and unlocking of the boit work, so that said safe or vault door cannot be opened when locked until both of said locks have been unlocked, or released their dogging action to enable the door to be opened, substantially as hereinafter described." �The patentee further says : "The combination and arrange- ment of the time lockwill be more fully hereinafter described; but it is evident that any form or construction of a time lock may be used as a part constituting one element of the com- bination called for in my claims. Combination or key locks have heretofore been used by bankers and others for the pur- pose of preventing the unlocking of the boit work of a safe or vault door, but as such locks are ' set on* combinations, or operated by means of keys, burglars can force the holders of the 'combination' or key to unlock the combination lock or looks and thus admit of the boit work being retracted and the door thrown open. Therefore such locks are not a safeguard against robbery. Clock locks have also been used upon safe or vault doors for the purpose of opening the door at a pre- determined hour, thus placing it beyond the power of any ��� �