Achille Parise, Naples, Italy.--This is a new combination lock for
doors, trunks, safes, etc., that admits of a large number of
combinations, and may be opened and closed quickly. It consists of
sliding tumbler plates, having longitudinal slots and a number of
perforations placed at different relative positions to the slots of
each tumbler. The trunks are connected by screw set pins attached to
face slides, and passing through any one of the perforations,
admitting the setting of the tumblers and opening of the lock by outer
projections or buttons of the slides to fixed exterior guides.