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US 2003/0188674 A1Published application
Safe
AssigneeMr. David Warren Bartel
InventorsDavid Warren Bartel, Melvin Wayne Keehart
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Abstract
A safe having a support assembly disposed in the interior of the safe. The door of the safe is coupled to the support assembly and is shiftable between a closed position wherein the door is received in an opening of the safe and an open position wherein the door is removed from the opening in the safe and disposed in the interior of the safe.
Claims38
An enclosure comprising:
- a housing defining an interior space and an opening for providing access to the interior space;
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- a door shiftable between a closed position wherein the door is at least partly received in the opening and blocks access to the interior space through the opening and an open position wherein the door is received in the interior space thereby permitting access to the interior space through the opening,
- said door moving along a path in a purely translational manner and a purely rotational manner when shifted between the closed position and the open position.
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An enclosure comprising:
- a housing defining an interior space and an opening for providing access to the interior space;
- a support disposed in the interior space, coupled to the housing, and rotatable relative to the housing on a longitudinal support axis;
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- a door coupled to the support and shiftable between a closed position wherein the door is at least partly received in the opening and blocks access to the interior space through the opening and an open position wherein the door is received in the interior space thereby permitting access to the interior space through the opening.
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A safe comprising:
- a housing including a side wall and a pair of end walls, said housing defining an interior space, said side wall defining an opening for providing access to the interior space;
- a support rotatably coupled to the housing and extending between the end walls along a longitudinal support axis;
- a door coupled to the support and selectively shiftable between a closed position wherein access to the interior space through the opening is prevented by the door and an open position wherein access to the interior space through the opening is permitted;
- a door brace at least partially supporting the door relative to the support, said door brace including a support-side member rigidly coupled to the support and a door-side member rigidly coupled to the door, said support-side member and said door-side member being slidably intercoupled;
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- a retraction member coupled between the support and the door and operable to selectively cause the door to translate relative to the support into and out of the opening.
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A method of opening a door of a safe to thereby permit access to the interior of the safe through an opening in the housing of the safe, said method comprising the steps of:
- (a) translating the door from a closed position in which the door is at least partly received in the opening to a retracted position in which the door is removed from the opening;
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- (b) rotating the door from the retracted position in which the door at least substantially blocks access to the interior of the safe through the opening to an open position in which the door is at least substantially moved away from the opening thereby permitting access to the interior of the safe through the opening.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.