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S&W Keyless push button double lock...i know i saw these...didnt i?

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Mark 28 Feb 2008

Hey guys help prove i'm not totaly crazy...a few years back i believe it was around the same time that peerless started using the spun rivet...Smith & Wesson was advertising a new double lock design that protruded out the side so that you didnt need a key to double lock it. These were not training cuffs...when i saw them i said that's the stupidest thing i ever saw...what happens when you accidently push that button while struggling to cuff someone!?

But the thing is i have spend the last 2 hours using google to find this "new" double lock design on Smith & Wesson handcuffs...but i cannot find one...not one mention of it!?

Ian McColl 28 Feb 2008

Hi, I don't know if this is what you are talking about but S&W have patented a lever operated deadlock system. A section of the middle frame of the lock will pivot and drive the deadlock spring into position. Looks okay but I see concerns.

Patent pub # US 2006/0130353 A1 Pub date June 22 2006

Ian

unknown42 28 Feb 2008

Hey guys help prove i'm not totaly crazy...a few years back i believe it was around the same time that peerless started using the spun rivet...Smith & Wesson was advertising a new double lock design that protruded out the side so that you didnt need a key to double lock it. These were not training cuffs...when i saw them i said that's the stupidest thing i ever saw...what happens when you accidently push that button while struggling to cuff someone!?

But the thing is i have spend the last 2 hours using google to find this "new" double lock design on Smith & Wesson handcuffs...but i cannot find one...not one mention of it!?

Dear Mark,

perhaps you are referring to the patent US 7,251,964 B2 (Aug. 7, 2005) issued by S & W for a kind of pivoting cam operated DL? (e. g. filed at google/patents))

I discovered this patent some months ago, but never found any clue about the realization.

Kind regards
Roman

lauher 28 Feb 2008

Hey guys help prove i'm not totaly crazy...a few years back i believe it was around the same time that peerless started using the spun rivet...Smith & Wesson was advertising a new double lock design that protruded out the side so that you didnt need a key to double lock it. These were not training cuffs...when i saw them i said that's the stupidest thing i ever saw...what happens when you accidently push that button while struggling to cuff someone!?

But the thing is i have spend the last 2 hours using google to find this "new" double lock design on Smith & Wesson handcuffs...but i cannot find one...not one mention of it!?

Mark
Perhaps you are remembering Hiatt cuffs instead of S&W. They sold a series of cuffs with a push button double lock button in the 1980s. They were marketed and advertised in the US. They did not last long perhaps for the reasons you mention.
Joe

Stan Willis 28 Feb 2008

Hey guys help prove i'm not totaly crazy...a few years back i believe it was around the same time that peerless started using the spun rivet...Smith & Wesson was advertising a new double lock design that protruded out the side so that you didnt need a key to double lock it. These were not training cuffs...when i saw them i said that's the stupidest thing i ever saw...what happens when you accidently push that button while struggling to cuff someone!?

But the thing is i have spend the last 2 hours using google to find this "new" double lock design on Smith & Wesson handcuffs...but i cannot find one...not one mention of it!?

Mark is correct.
About 2 years ago, S&W did announce a cuff with extended DL button. As of now it hasn't been made.
Stan

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Mark 28 Feb 2008

I thought I was wrong once...but i was mistaken lol

Thanks for saving my sanity over this Stan!! I'm pretty sure it was their model 100 and i thought they were being made because...not only were they being hyped up on the S&W website but i think i saw retailers advertising them for sale. At the time I needed to replace a pair of S&W 100 that were lost and i was debating between the old style Peerless and the new push button double lock S&W's. I started thinking about the problems the keyless double lock could pose and went with Peerless. The thing that made no sence to me was that while you didn't need a key to double lock these you DID need a key to UNlock them just like traditional double locks.

S.A. 28 Feb 2008

Hey guys help prove i'm not totaly crazy...a few years back i believe it was around the same time that peerless started using the spun rivet...Smith & Wesson was advertising a new double lock design that protruded out the side so that you didnt need a key to double lock it. These were not training cuffs...when i saw them i said that's the stupidest thing i ever saw...what happens when you accidently push that button while struggling to cuff someone!?

But the thing is i have spend the last 2 hours using google to find this "new" double lock design on Smith & Wesson handcuffs...but i cannot find one...not one mention of it!?

http://www.google.com/patents?id=oUGcAA ... =1#PPA1,M1