Locking device for mailboxes

An apartment gang mail box comprising an outer frame adapted to be mounted on the wall of a building, an inner frame, a plurality of individual tenant mail boxes mounted in said inner frame, each individual tenant mail box having an open top concealed by the outer frame and a door, a tenant's mail box lock mounted in each door, said inner frame pivotally connected to said outer frame so that the entire inner frame along with the individual tenant mail boxes can be pivoted in a direction that exposes the open tops of the tenant's mail boxes to permit the mailman to insert mail into each of the individual mail boxes, said inner frame having side members and connecting top and bottom members, a security bar mounted on said inner frame, said security bar comprising a first part and a second part, each part of said security bar having first ends close to and facing each other when said first and second parts are in alignment with each other and covering said individual tenant's mail box locks and opposite ends remote from said first ends and adjacent said side bars, elongated slots extending parallel to said first and second parts of said security bar formed in the said opposite remote ends of said first and second parts of said bar, pivot rods extending through said elongated slots and into said side members of said inner frame whereby the first and second parts of said bar can be moved away from each other with said pivot rods riding in said slots and so said first and second parts of said security bar can pivot on said pivot rods to a position out of the way of said doors of the individual tenant's mail boxes whereby the doors of the tenant's mail boxes can open, the first ends of said first and second parts of said security bar shaped so they form a flange, said security bar sized and positioned so when the first and second parts of the bar cover the tenants mail box locks, the said flanges are at least close to each other, shackle receiving openings extending through said flanges for receiving the shackle of a padlock, whereby when the flanges are in alignment and the shackle of a padlock extends through said openings, the first and second parts of said bar are held in linear alignment and are positioned so they cover and conceal the tenants mail box locks to prevent thieves from breaking into the tenant's mail boxes by breaking through the tenant's mail box locks.