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Child-proof lock for fridge-freezers

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The parents of an autistic child required an easy-to-control but child-proof lock for their fridge freezer. Commercial solutions were tried but found to not be sufficiently robust enough.

Fridge-freezers usually have provision to mount the doors on either side, so there will be a pair of unused tapped holes between the doors on the open side. These can be used to mount a base plate carrying a sliding hook that, when in the closed position, traps the corners of both doors. The sliding component is fitted with a short cap-head screw, the lower section of which is filed to a rectangular shape. This runs in a slot in the base plate and, in the ‘locked’ position, coincides with a hole of the same diameter as the screw.

With both doors closed, the hook is slid until it traps the doors, and the cap-head screw is given a quarter turn by means of an Allen key inserted through the gap between the doors. This prevents the screw, and the slider, from moving until the screw is rotated back to its free position.

This lock has proved child-proof and has been found easy to use by the parents.

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2 responses to “Child-proof lock for fridge-freezers”

  1. Kim Georgina Millen-Stirling says:

    We have been searching for a lock for our daughters fridge to prevent our grandson from emptying the fridge on a regular basis.

    Your lock seems to fit the bill and I would be grateful if you could tell me where I can purchase it.

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