Security door mounting arrangement
OwnerBrett Dunstaninventor
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Abstract
A security door mounting arrangement for a safe (10) including a substantially rectangular-shaped block for the body (20), having a base (22), a rear wall (in the direction (23), a pair of side walls (24) and a top (25), all defining the cavity (21), and an opening (in the direction (26)) defined by a door jamb (27). A hinged door (40) includes a locking assembly (60), including a crank assembly (62). The crank assembly (62) includes a central crank (63) comprising a disc plate substantially parallel-planar with a main panel of the door (40). The crank (63) is operable by a handle installed on the front face of the door (40). The handle and the central crank are rotatable together coaxially and about a common axis A.
Claims17
A security door mounting arrangement for securing a door of a container, the security door mounting arrangement including:
- a jamb defining a closure space;
- a door having a first closure edge hingedly mounted on or near a first edge of the jamb, and a second closure edge abutting a second edge of the jamb;
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- a locking bolt extendable from the second closure edge and operative to be received in, on or near the second edge of the jamb in a closed position of the door, wherein:
- the door includes an elongate member that extends along the first closure edge, wherein an axis of the elongate member is fixed relative to the door;
- a hinge device includes the elongate member, the hinge device is adapted to permit rotation of the door, the hinge device includes at least two hinge axes;
- the elongate member has upper first and lower second sections, which are located along a length of the elongate member and are mounted to a corresponding pair of first and second short arms;
- the first and second short arms are rotatably attached to the respective upper and lower portions of the elongate member;
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- at an intermediate section intermediate the length of the elongate member, the door further includes a reinforcing member fixedly attached to an internal surface of the door and adapted to resist flexing of the elongate member at the intermediate section;
- wherein the reinforcing member is in the form of a brace arm extending from the elongate member and directly or indirectly attaching to the internal surface of the door, wherein the brace arm is connected to a door release mechanism that is adapted to move to lock or release the door as the brace arm moves towards or away from a bracing member,
- wherein the brace arm comprises a linear beam that abuts the bracing member when the door release mechanism is in a locked position, and
- wherein the container is a safe and the bracing member is a side wall of the safe.
A security door mounting arrangement for securing a door of a container, the security door mounting arrangement including:
- a jamb defining a closure space;
- a door having a first closure edge hingedly mounted on or near a first edge of the jamb, and a second closure edge abutting a second edge of the jamb;
- and
- a locking bolt extendable from the second closure edge and operative to be received in, on or near the second edge of the jamb in a closed position of the door, wherein:
- the door includes an elongate member that extends along the first closure edge, wherein an axis of the elongate member is fixed relative to the door;
- a hinge device includes the elongate member, the hinge device is adapted to permit rotation of the door, the hinge device includes at least two hinge axes;
- the elongate member has upper first and lower second sections, which are located along a length of the elongate member and are mounted to a corresponding pair of first and second short arms;
- the first and second short arms are rotatably attached to the respective upper and lower portions of the elongate member;
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- at an intermediate section intermediate the length of the elongate member, the door further includes a reinforcing member fixedly attached to an internal surface of the door and adapted to resist flexing of the elongate member at the intermediate section;
- wherein the reinforcing member is in the form of a brace arm extending from the elongate member and directly or indirectly attaching to the internal surface of the door, wherein the brace arm is connected to a door release mechanism that is adapted to move to lock or release the door as the brace arm moves towards or away from a bracing member,
- wherein the container is a safe and the bracing member is a side wall of the safe, and
- wherein the brace arm is movably attached to the elongate member whereby movement of the brace arm corresponds to the movement of the door release mechanism, such that the brace arm moves when the door release mechanism moves and otherwise, in a locked position, resists flexing of the elongate member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.