Armored booth
OwnerOmer G. Kropfinventor
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Abstract
An armored booth that functions as a protective enclosure permitting the occupants to approach armed individuals with reduced risk of harm to the occupants. The booth includes a housing formed of armored material and proportioned to be able to enter the doorway of a building. The housing has armored windows and gun ports. The housing has wheels and may be moved from place to place by the occupant walking inside of the housing.
Claims12
An armored booth comprising a housing formed of armored material, said housing including walls having gun ports therein adapted to permit gun shooting through said gun ports from the interior of said housing, windows formed of transparent armored material mounted in said walls, said walls including a rectangular front wall, a rectangular rear wall and two rectangular side walls, wheels mounted on said housing and adapted to support the housing in spaced relation above a ground or floor surface, said front wall and housing having a horizontal dimension less than thirty-six inches and said wheels and housing having a vertical dimension less than eighty-two inches whereby the housing is capable of passing through a rectangular building door opening of dimensions thirty-six by eighty-two inches or greater, said front wall having a pair of arm openings therein, a pair of armored closure members each having an upper edge which is pivotally attached to said front wall above a respective one of said arm openings, each of said closure members being hung over a respective one of said openings and closing the respective arm opening but pivotal outwardly away from the front wall to permit a person inside the housing reaching his arm through a respective arm opening to open a door handle of a door in a building door opening whereby the armored booth may be moved through the building door opening.
An armored booth comprising a housing formed of armored material, said housing including walls having gun ports therein adapted to permit gun shooting through said gun ports from the interior of said housing, windows formed of transparent armored material mounted in said walls, said walls including a rectangular front wall, a rectangular rear wall and two rectangular side walls, a first pair of wheels mounted on said front wall, a second pair of wheels mounted on said rear wall, said wheels being adapted to support the housing in spaced relation above a ground or floor surface, said first pair of wheels being swivel mounted whereby the wheels can turn in multiple directions, said second pair of wheels being swivel mounted whereby the wheels can turn in multiple directions but also being restrainable so that they turn only in a plane extending front to rear of said housing, and bearings mounted on said rear wall and movable to restrain said second pair of wheels to turn in only a front to rear extending plane relative to said housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.