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US 10,869,570 B2Granted
Secure delivery receptacle
OwnerDavid Kirk Dunkelberger, Jacob Kirk Dunkelberger +2inventors
InventorsDavid Kirk Dunkelberger, Jacob Kirk Dunkelberger, Joseph Dean Dunkelberger, John Gilbert Dunkelberger
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Abstract
A secure delivery system has a receptacle formed from sturdy, reinforced fabric with a single zippered opening, a zipper closing the opening having a locking slider, a tether attached securely to the receptacle, and an anchor enabled to attach securely to a post, wall or door.
Claims7
A secure delivery system, comprising:
- a receptacle formed from sturdy, reinforced fabric with a single zippered opening, a zipper closing the opening having a locking slider;
- a metallic rod secured through layers of the reinforced fabric forming a tether attached securely to a metallic plate within the receptacle;
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- an anchor enabled to attach securely to a post, wall or door.
1 more element
A zipper lock mechanism, comprising:
- an upper portion having a key-lock mechanism engaging and turning a vertically-oriented spindle having a cam head, and first channels on an underside of the upper portion defining one part of converging ribbon channels for guiding ribbons of a zipper;
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- a lower portion having second channels matching the first channels, such that fastening the upper and lower portions together forms completed converging ribbon channels guiding opening and closure of a zipper as the zipper lock mechanism is translated along the zipper, the lower portion further having a spring-loaded pivoted pawl which ratchets along the closed zipper preventing reverse travel along the zipper of the locking mechanism, and the pawl operated by the cam head of the spindle passes through a hole in the lower portion from the upper portion, to engage and disengage the pawl from the zipper.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.