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US 8,555,793 B2Granted
Active hardplate
AssigneeAmerican Security Products Co.
InventorAnthony Charles Maniaci
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Abstract
A safe or other secure containment having a body, a door for entry into the body, a moveable latch system effective for latching and unlatching the door to the body, a lock attached to the door for locking the safe is made more secure by an active hardplate and an independent lockout means effective for preventing the unlatching of the safe door upon the displacement of the active hardplate caused by an unauthorized and unlawful attempted entry into the safe. Existing safes also can be modified.
Claims14
A safe comprising:
- a safe body;
- a safe door for entry into the safe body;
- a moveable latch system effective for latching and unlatching the safe door to the safe body;
- a safe lock attached to the safe door, wherein the safe lock has an extendable and retractable lock bolt for locking and unlocking, respectively, the safe door, wherein the safe lock has a lock aperture for receiving a key cylinder, or a dialer, or electrical connections or other locking and unlocking mechanisms through the lock aperture, and wherein the safe lock is spaced away from the safe door and wherein the lock aperture is directly inward of the safe door;
- a lock bolt recess for receiving the lock bolt when extended;
- an active hardplate located in, and free to move in, a restricted space located between the safe door and the safe lock effective for preventing a drill attack through the safe door into the safe lock without first drilling into the active hardplate and causing the active hardplate to be moved in the restrictive space and wherein the active hardplate is directly between the safe door and the safe lock;
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- independent lockout means effective for independently preventing the unlatching of the safe door upon movement of the active hardplate within the restrictive space.
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A safe comprising:
- a safe body;
- a safe door for entry into the safe body;
- a moveable latch system effective for latching and unlatching the safe door to the safe body;
- a safe lock attached to the safe door, wherein the safe lock has an extendable and retractable lock bolt for locking and unlocking, respectively, the safe door;
- a lock bolt recess for receiving the lock bolt when extended;
- an active hardplate located in, and free to move in, a restricted space;
- independent lockout means effective for independently preventing the unlatching of the safe door upon movement of the active hardplate;
- a lock mount plate having one side attached to the safe lock, and an opposite side that bounds in part the restrictive space;
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- wherein the lock mount plate comprises a holding aperture for holding a lockout pin and preventing the lockout pin from being driven into a lockout recess until a predetermined amount of force is exerted upon the active hardplate.
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A safe comprising:
- a safe body;
- a safe door for entry into the safe body;
- a moveable latch system effective for latching and unlatching the safe door to the safe body;
- a safe lock attached to the safe door, wherein the safe lock has an extendable and retractable lock bolt for locking and unlocking, respectively, the safe door;
- a lock bolt recess for receiving the lock bolt when extended;
- an active hardplate located in, and free to move in, a restricted space;
- independent lockout means effective for independently preventing the unlatching of the safe door upon movement of the active hardplate;
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- wherein the active hardplate has a bent flange portion that acts as hinge means for presenting a slanted surface to a drill attack upon the safe lock.
6 more elements
A safe comprising:
- a safe body;
- a safe door for entry into the safe body;
- a moveable latch system effective for latching and unlatching the safe door to the safe body;
- a safe lock attached to the safe door, wherein the safe lock has an extendable and retractable lock bolt for locking and unlocking, respectively, the safe door;
- a lock bolt recess for receiving the lock bolt when extended;
- an active hardplate located in, and free to move in, a restricted space;
- independent lockout means effective for independently preventing the unlatching of the safe door upon movement of the active hardplate;
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- means for moving a fresh and undamaged segment of the active hardplate in the path of the drill.
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A safe comprising:
- a safe body;
- a safe door for entry into the safe body;
- a moveable latch system effective for latching and unlatching the safe door to the safe body, the moveable latch system being attached to an inside surface of the safe door;
- a safe lock attached to the safe door, the safe lock having an extendable and retractable lock bolt, wherein when the safe door is closed and the moveable latch system is latched the lock bolt can be extended into a lock bolt recess in the moveable latch system to lock the safe;
- a lock bolt recess for receiving the lock bolt when extended;
- an active hardplate located in a restricted space located between the safe door and the safe lock, wherein the restrictive space is aligned with the safe lock, wherein the active hardplate is not attached to the safe body, or to the safe door, or to the moveable latch system, and wherein the active hardplate is free to move in a predetermined manner within the restrictive space;
- independent lockout means having a portion thereof that is within the restrictive space and another portion thereof that is not within the restricted space, the independent lockout means being effective for preventing the unlatching of the safe door upon movement of the active hardplate;
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- a spring located between the active hardplate and the lock mount plate, the spring being effective for providing a predetermined amount of resistance to movement of the active hardplate.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.