@amenonsen it would've likely been cast in pieces in a factory. The key was probably ground down from a cast blank, and the discs would've been inserted from the bottom with spacers in between, then the bottom was inserted and the shell was crimped over it.

@me it's a really short patent. One page of James bagging on someone else's design and then saying that flaring the base of the shackle and shortening the posts slightly was a significant improvement.

Which it is, but I think he hyped his improvements a little much, considering it took me like 15 seconds to figure out how to pick it.

@alice Thanks! Would this have been an expensive lock, for its time?

@alice what the heck!!?!?!
Your posting the poor things nudes?
Did you even ask its permission!?!?!?
Lock abuse like this cant be tolerated!!!

@amenonsen I don't know, but it's a fancy design for the time.

@smolbrain hey, I just found it on the internet. If it didn't want to be posted, maybe it shouldn't have been so sexy. I'm just a nude lock appreciator. If the lock doesn't want to be posted, it can fill out a DMCA request. Besides I didn't break any laws. This lock sent me those photos. We don't live in the same zipcode, so it doesn't count. Whatever, that lock'll open for anyone.

Wow, I feel gross just satirizing that stuff...

And yes, I'm picking locks in my Care Bears PJs

@alice

what're the locks doing in your PJs?

@alice Something tells me that M. James H. McWilliams would be especially incensed about that.

@munin
The locks wanted in their pants?
@alice