Description: Medeco High Security Locks Cylinders Dead Bolts & Keys Locksmith New Old Stock Embroidered Patch 3.5” x 3” Medeco Medeco, a subsidiary of the Swedish Assa Abloy Group, is a lock manufacturer located in Roanoke County, Virginia, United States. Medeco traces its origins to the Mechanical Development Company, a tool and die shop, founded in mid-1950s by Paul A. Powell, Roy C. Spain and Roy N. Oliver in the Cave Spring area of Roanoke County. Roy Oliver served as the CEO of Medeco through the early 1980s. In the 1960s, Mr. Spain perfected a lock featuring angled key cuts with elevating and rotating pin tumblers, and submitted the design to the U.S. Patent Office. As part of a promotional campaign, he advertised that anyone who could pick this lock would receive $50,000. Only a detective from New York City succeeded; accomplishing the feat a single time but failing on subsequent attempts. The design ultimately proved to be resistant to the widely used forms of attack of that time. Capitalizing on this invention and related patents, the Medeco company was established in 1968. The name was formed from the constituent words of the "Mechanical Development Company". The Swedish based lock manufacturer Assa Abloy Group acquired Medeco in 1998. Medeco currently has over 250 employees, still operating out of facilities in Roanoke County. Medeco's lock design features lock pins that are "chisel tipped" which can only be rotated by keys with correspondingly angled cuts. This serves to increase the difficulty of key reproduction. A slot along the length of the pin causes the sidebar to drop once the pin has been rotated to its correct orientation. The off-centre chisel tip also allows 2 different offsets to the pin. The theoretical number of unique key combinations is over two million when using a lock with six pins, six heights, three rotational positions, and two pin tip angles.
Price: 35 USD
Location: New York, New York
End Time: 2024-12-03T21:33:38.000Z
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Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money back or replacement (buyer's choice)
Type: Patch
Unit Type: Unit
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Unit Quantity: 1
California Prop 65 Warning: n/a
