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US 10,378,267 B2Granted
Safe protection apparatuses and methods
AssigneeNCR Corporation
InventorsAndrew Grant, Ian McFarlane Denny, Donald Iain MacInnes
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Abstract
A safe includes at least one wall having a gap with a safe protection mechanism inserted into the gap. The at least one wall when penetrated by an attack tool attempting to penetrate an interior of the safe activates the safe protection mechanism to thwart and/or impeded progress of the attack tool.
Claims18
A safe, comprising:
- walls;
- and
- at least one of the walls including a gap and the gap including a safe protection mechanism, wherein the safe protection mechanism including a fabric woven in weaves as one of:
- a wart and weft fabric, a weft knitted fabric, and a warp knitted fabric, wherein a size of the gap between a first wall and a second wall is approximately 10 mm.
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A method, comprising:
- forming at least one wall of a safe with a gap;
- and
- manufacturing within the gap a safe protection mechanism that is activated when an externally facing surface of the at least one wall is penetrated with an attack tool to thwart or impeded penetration into an interior of the safe, wherein manufacturing further includes manufacturing the gap with a size of approximately 10 mm, wherein manufacturing further includes providing a least a portion of the safe protection mechanism as a woven fabric having weaves that includes one of:
- a wart and weft woven fabric, a weft knitted fabric, and a warp knitted fabric.
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A method, comprising:
- manufacturing a safe having at least one wall that includes a gap and inserted into the gap a safe protection mechanism to thwart or impeded a safe attack, wherein at least a portion of the safe protection mechanism includes a fabric woven into weaves includes as one of:
- a wart and weft woven fabric, a weft knitted fabric, and a warp knitted fabric, and wherein manufacturing further includes manufacturing the gap with a size of approximately 10 mm;
- and
- integrating the safe into a Self-Service Terminal (SST) as a portion of the SST and used during operation of the SST.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.