Folding door bar lock

A locking bar device for securing folding fireplace doors with protruding horizontal U-shaped handles, the device comprising:

• on a folding fireplace door having a pair of protruding horizontal U-shaped handles on the middle folding doors;
• a top bar formed of rigid elongated material having at least two spaced openings vertically through the top bar, the two spaced openings being capable of alignment with the pair of horizontal U-shaped handles;
• a bottom bar formed of rigid elongated material having at least two mating spaced openings vertically through the bottom bar, the top bar and bottom bar spaced apart by the thickness of the fireplace door handle, the bars being capable of sandwiching the pair of horizontal U-shaped fireplace door handles between the bars;
• at least two connecting means for interconnecting the two bars through the at least two spaced openings, the at least two spaced openings being positioned so that each of the at least two connecting means passes through one of the pair of handles of the folding doors, the at least two connecting means securely attaching the bars together sandwiching the handles therebetween, the locking bar device being locked in place by the at least two connecting means through the handles wherein at least one of the bars has a length capable of spanning across a pair of central panels and across a portion of each of the adjacent panels, and maintaining the folding fireplace doors in a flat aligned closed configuration and preventing the lateral and outward movement of the folding doors and the opening of the folding doors without either of the bars contacting a door frame around the folding fireplace doors.