Window security apparatus
OwnerJoseph Forgioneinventor
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Abstract
Security apparatus for attachment to the interior side of conventional residential window structure and which includes a horizontal bar having a plurality of vertical bars fixedly attached thereto. The vertical bars are slidably received in respective apertures suitably provided in the sill of the window, thus the bars may be slidably moved upwardly to a security position which occludes the window and downwardly to an escape position which unobstructs the window. Lock structure is included to lock the bars in the security position and a lock trip/release device makes provisions for releasing the lock structure which causes the bars to gravitate downwardly to the escape position thus enabling occupants of the building to escape outwardly through the window in the event of fire and the like.
Claims10
The combination with residential and such window structure having a frame defined in part by a horizontal sill element and a pair of vertical confrontingly arranged casing elements, of window security apparatus attached to said frame for minimizing the likelihood of intrustion through the window while enabling occupants of the residence to rapidly escape outwardly therethrough in the event of fire and the like, said window security apparatus comprising guard means for providing a security barrier against intrusion into the residence, said guard means including a plurality of rigid, one-piece vertical bar members disposed on the interior side of the window structure, said sill element being provided with a plurality of apertures for respectively slidably receiving said plurality of vertical bar members, said guard means being free to be slidably moved between an up, window occluded position and a down, window unobstructed position independently from any of the window structure, and lock means positioned beneath one of said vertical bar members of said guard means and having locked and unlocked positions for selectively supporting the entire weight of said guard means to preclude downward movement of said guard means when said guard means is in said up, window occluded position and said lock means is in said locked position and for enabling said guard means to be moved up and down when said lock means is in said unlocked position
Window security apparatus for attachment to the interior side of conventional window structure, said window security apparatus comprising guard means including a horizontally disposed bar member and a plurality of rigid, one-piece vertically disposed bar members having the respective upper ends thereof fixedly attached to said horizontally disposed bar member, the sill element of said window structure being provided with a plurality of apertures for respectively slidably receiving said plurality of vertically disposed bar members, track means fixedly attached to the casing elements of the window structure for engaging and guidingly constraining said horizontally disposed bar member, said track means being separate from the tracks of the window structure that engage and guidingly constrain the sash members of the window structure, said guard means being free to be slidably moved between an up, window occluded position and a down, window unobstructed position independently from either of the sash members of the window structure lock means positioned beneath one of said vertical bar members of said guard means and having locked and unlocked positions for selectively supporting the entire weight of said guard means to preclude downward movement of said guard means when said guard means is in said up, window occluded position and said lock means is in said locked position and for enabling said guard means to be moved up and down when said lock means is in said unlocked position, and lock trip-release means for remotely actuating said lock means between said locked and unlocked positions.
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