Anti-snooping device for apartment dwellers
OwnerMichael Cohnitz Olshauseninventor
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Abstract
An anti-snooping device for doors to apartments comprising a locking mechanism and a relatively low-strength, "tamperproof" seal capable of engaging the locking mechanism, the locking mechanism being capable of disengagement without, however, compromising the "tamperproof" seal. The invention's preferred embodiment is a chain door lock in which one of the chain's links has been replaced by a coded, colored, plastic, "tamperproof" seal. To enter the apartment, the apartment dweller uses, first, her door key and then, second, the key to or, alternately, the combination of, the anti-snooping device. Entry by anyone else must be effected by breaking the "tamperproof" seal or by breaking or successfully picking the anti-snooping device's lock.
Claims16
An anti-snooping device adapted to be attached to a door and a door frame comprising a dual-strength connector, a door-mounted anchorage, and a door-frame-mounted anchorage, said dual-strength connector comprising a low-strength seal and a relatively high-strength coupler, said high-strength coupler capable of lockably engaging at least one of the said anchorages, said lockable engagement of said high-strength coupler being severable by the operation of a key, said low-strength seal being capable of engaging said high-strength coupler and further being capable of engaging the anchorage not engaged by said high-strength coupler, said dual-strength connector and said anchorages, after said high-strength coupler has been lockably engaged with one said anchorage and said low-strength seal has been engaged both with said high-strength coupler and with the anchorage not engaged by said high-strength coupler, in combination forming a span connecting said door to said door frame, said span being sufficiently long as to allow said door to be set ajar without breaking said low-strength seal, but said span being sufficiently short as to prevent a human being from passing between said door and said door frame without breaking said low-strength seal after said door has been set ajar, said span further being severable by the operation of said key or by the action of breaking said low-strength seal.
An anti-snooping device adapted to be attached to a door and a door frame comprising a dual-strength connector, a door-mounted anchorage, and a door-frame-mounted anchorage, said dual-strength connector comprising a low-strength seal and a relatively high-strength coupler, said high-strength coupler capable of lockably engaging at least one of the said anchorages, said lockable engagement of said high-strength coupler being severable by the entry of a combination, said low-strength seal being capable of engaging said high-strength coupler and further being capable of engaging the anchorage not engaged by said high-strength coupler, said dual-strength connector and said anchorages, after said high-strength coupler has been lockably engaged with one said anchorage and said low-strength seal has been engaged both with said high-strength coupler and with the anchorage not engaged by said high-strength coupler, in combination forming a span connecting said door to said door frame, said span being sufficiently long as to allow said door to be set ajar without breaking said low-strength seal, but said span being sufficiently short as to prevent a human being from passing between said door and said door frame without breaking said low-strength seal after said door has been set ajar, said span further being severable by the entry of said combination or by the action of breaking said low-strength seal.
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