CA1093898A - Portable arrangement intended for valuable documents - Google Patents

Portable arrangement intended for valuable documents

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CA1093898A
CA1093898A CA297,690A CA297690A CA1093898A CA 1093898 A CA1093898 A CA 1093898A CA 297690 A CA297690 A CA 297690A CA 1093898 A CA1093898 A CA 1093898A
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lid
code
portable container
container according
lock
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CA297,690A
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French (fr)
Inventor
Tage V.L. Andersson
Lars R. Isheden
Nils B. Akerstedt
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Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson AB
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Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson AB
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    • EFIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E05LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
    • E05GSAFES OR STRONG-ROOMS FOR VALUABLES; BANK PROTECTION DEVICES; SAFETY TRANSACTION PARTITIONS
    • E05G1/00Safes or strong-rooms for valuables
    • E05G1/14Safes or strong-rooms for valuables with means for masking or destroying the valuables, e.g. in case of theft
    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A45HAND OR TRAVELLING ARTICLES
    • A45CPURSES; LUGGAGE; HAND CARRIED BAGS
    • A45C13/00Details; Accessories
    • A45C13/18Devices to prevent theft or loss of purses, luggage or hand carried bags
    • A45C13/24Devices for sound-producing, piercing, gas-discharging, or the like
    • GPHYSICS
    • G08SIGNALLING
    • G08BSIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS
    • G08B15/00Identifying, scaring or incapacitating burglars, thieves or intruders, e.g. by explosives
    • EFIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E05LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
    • E05GSAFES OR STRONG-ROOMS FOR VALUABLES; BANK PROTECTION DEVICES; SAFETY TRANSACTION PARTITIONS
    • E05G1/00Safes or strong-rooms for valuables
    • E05G1/005Portable strong boxes, e.g. which may be fixed to a wall or the like

Abstract

ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE
The invention provides a portable container for valu-able documents provided with a lockable lid and containing weans which when activated has an effect on the valuable documents, the container further being provided with two locks, one of which automatically takes a blocking position when the lid is opened and in this blocking position prevents the lid from being security locked, and the other, of which is of a code type and in a locked position prevents opening of the lid and has an activating device to activate said means if an attempt to open the lid with an incorrect code is made.

Description

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The invention relates to a portable container for valuable documents, e~uipped with a lockable lid and containing means which when activated has an effect on the valuable documents.
The purpose of this invention is to have at one's disposal a bag or cassett suitable for money transportation which is light and meets realistic safety requirements of the person in charge~ and should decrease the risk for theft and burglary by making the enclosed currency and other valuable documents useless in an effective manner if unauthroized appropriation of the bag's contents is attempted.
According to the present invention, there is provided a portable container for valuable documents provided with a lockable lid and containing means which when activated has an effect on the valuable documents, the container further being provided with two locks, one of said locks automatically taking a blocking position when the lid i9 opened and in this blocking position preventing the lid from being security locked, and the other of said locks being of a code type and in a locked position `~
preventing opening of the lid a~d having an activating device to activate said means if an attempt to open the lid with an incorrect code is made.
The invention will be described in more detail by way of example only, w1th reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
Fig. 1 shows a bag with a fluid reservoir, the content of which is ejected if an unauthorized attempt to open the bag is made;
Fig. 2 shows a bag with pyrotechnical furnish which is ignited and burns the content if an unauthorized attempt to open ~30 the bag is made; and Fig. 3 shows a corner of the bag in enlargement.

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The bag, schematically outlined in Figure ], has a lockable lid 10. The bag is equipped with two locks of which one lock 20 automa-tically takes on blocking position when the lid is opened and thereby prevents -the lid from being closed.
This lock can have a bar or a bulb which, when the lid is opened, protrudes and subsequen-tly preven-ts the lid from being closed by mistake. One reason for such an arrangement is -that the bag may be in a bank institution where it is collected by a customer who takes it along to a store or an office where he will inser-t money to be transported to the bank. When the money ~;~
has been inserted, the blocking is cancelled and -the lid can now be closed and locked and remains closed un-til the bag is re-opened in -the bank. :[-t is bet-ter Eor -the customer no-t have -the code at his disposal which is required for opening -the bag's second lock 11, which is a -type of code and which in a lockir.g position prevents the lid from being opened and in an attempt to open it with an incorrect code makes an activating means 12 activatc a means 13 having an effect Oll the bagls content. Th~
activating means 12 can consist of a blas-ting cap which is re-leased electrically, and the means 13 can consist of a container of liquid, e.g., copper ethylene diamine solvent contalning -the color substance xylene cyonol or it can also consist of thermite.
By havinga blastingcap and a color container in each of-the bag's gables respectively, an effective resolution and coloring of thepaper bills willbe obtained ifan unauthorizeda-ttempt to open the bag is made, i.e., when using an incorrect code. The correct way of opening i-t comes about - preferably in a bank - by coupling a switching apparatus -to the bag by means of which an iden-tification code stored on a circuit card 14 can be read, and an opening code, identical with an illegible opening code pre-viously fed into the s-torage, can be fed in-to the clrcuit card 14. Due -to the fact that -the identification code normally is legible solely
-2-38~3 in -the bank area and there, via a code key, gives a certain piece of information about which opening code is valid tnat particular day for that particular customer, the prospects for a safe money transpor-tation are good.
It is possible that unauthorized personnel within the bank by mistake feed an incorrect code via the switching appara-tus and, in order to avoid destruction of the bag's conten-t the code lock 11 should be arranged in such a way that a first at-tempt to open the bag wi-th an incorrect code thus only will pre-pare an effect of the blasting caps 12, while a second attemptwith an incorrect code thus brings the blasting capsules 12 to detonate and will subsequently tear the liquid containers 15 apart. If necessary, several attempts can be tolerated.
The mentioned switching apparatus is coupled from the outside through a contact means 15 in the lid 10 which is turn-able by means of hinges 16. On bo-th sides of the storage com-partment 17 are thermostats 18 and a battery 19 arranged beneath respective capsule 12 and container 13. The thermostats are, at temperatures exceeding a certain first value or falling below r~
a certain second value respectively through microswitches on the circuit card 1~, intended -to cause ejection of the liquid, and the battery 19 provides the required energy for this purpose.
Microswitches not shown are in charge of closure of necessary electric circuits in the activation of the solvent liquid. Also ; a decrease of the ba-ttery's 19 voltage level to a certain value causes such an action.
As is shown in Figure 3, the covering of the bag is comprised of an internal wall 21 of conducting materlal, an intermediate layer 22 of insulating material and an external wall 23 of conducting material. The internal wall 21 and the external wall 23 are included in an electrical circuit -together with a device for the purpose of blasting the capsule 12. In -- 3 ~

case of electrical contact somewhere between the two walls, bo-th capsules 12 will thus detonate and the enclosed bills are des-troyed by the ejecting liquid.
By forming the intermediate layer 22 of an insulating material and a metallic salt, it is possible to make this layer conducting in a burglary attempt by means of an alien liquid.
The bag shown schematically in Figure 2 has a pyrotech-nical solvent 31 on the inner sides of the storage compartment When unauthorized tresspassing or incorrect code instruction has occurred, the circuit card 34 will genera-te a signal to the blas-ting caps 32, which detonate and ignite the pyrotechnical set 31. The enclosed bills are thus des-troyed by the developed thermal energy.
q'he mentioned sw:itchiny apparatus is arranged in a manner that makes i-t possible to produce a function control in connection with de-coding and programming, i.e., that existing microswitches and associated electronics function as intended, that the battery is not discharged, etc.
In the previous example, the affecting means 13 has 1`
been indicated as a dissolving and coloring liquid. Other means can obviously be used, e.g., a thermoplastic material which r glues together or moulds the bills into a firm lump. ~, The electronics on the circuit card 34 is formed in such a way that, if overpotentials would enter for instance through -the contact means 15, the means of destruction would instantly be activated.
Of course, it is important that the bag is entirely in working order when -the customer is about to use it, maybe after a relatively long period of time after it has been brought from the bank institution. For this reason, the bag is equipped with a diode lamp which when the bat-tery and elec-tronics are in r working order is ignited when the first mentioned blocking of ~

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the lock is discontinucd and turned out as the bay is closed.
Closing oE the lid 10 is in the procedure illustrated ,~
iJI the drawings prevented through the ratchets 20 when the first lock is in a blocking position. One possible moclification of the procedure is that when the first lock is in a blocking position the lid 10 can of course be closed, but thexeby it does not become security locked which implies -that the lid can be re-opened and re-closed one or several times without having the other lock, the code lock, become activated. It is not until the blocking position of the first lock has ceased, e.g., by simultaneously pressing in two buttons that the lid 10 becomes security locked as a result of the other lock, the code lock, automatically is being activated. In the modified procedure it is thus possible ~:o close the lid whereby the mechanical lock autornatically locks the lid, and then, if necessary, unlock the lock by means of a key and open the lid one or several times.
For security locking is required on the one hand that the lid is closed and, on -the other hand that the mechanical (first) I;
blocking function of the lock ceases whereby the code lock auto-matically is activated and prevents unau-thorized opening of the arranqement. The blocking function can in principle be coordinated with ei-ther one of the -two locks. When a lid is mentioned in the preceding, i-t is hereby no-t only intended such a hinge-equipped de-tail, marked 10 in the drawings, but also a gable in a case or box that can be moved in and out in the other-wise closed casing, whereby the gable as a lid will prevent the enclosed documents from being taken out of the casing.
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Claims (7)

THE EMBODIMENTS OF THE INVENTION IN WHICH AN EXCLUSIVE
PROPERTY OR PRIVILEGE IS CLAIMED ARE DEFINED AS FOLLOWS:
1. A portable container for valuable documents provided with a lockable lid and containing means which when activated has an effect on the valuable documents, the container further being provided with two locks, one of said locks automatically taking a blocking position when the lid is opened and in this blocking position preventing the lid from being security locked, and the other of said locks being of a code type and in a locked position preventing opening of the lid and having an activating device to activate said means if an attempt to open the lid with an incorrect code is made.
2. A portable container according to claim 1, wherein said one lock is of the mechanical type and in a locked position also prevents unauthorized opening of the lid.
3. A portable container according to claim 1, wherein the other lock is arranged in such a way that when a first opening attempt with incorrect code is made it prepares the activating device and not until a subsequent attempt with an incorrect code is made does it actually activate -the activating device to cause said means to have its effect on the container contents.
4. A portable container according to claim 1, wherein said means consists of a copper ethylene diamine solvent.
5. A portable container according to claim 4, wherein the copper ethylene diamine solvent contains a coloring substance.
6. A portable container according to any one of claims 1 to 3 wherein said means consists of thermite.
7. A portable container according to claim 1, containing a code storage device for at least two codes, one of which comprises an identification code and is legible by means of an external switching apparatus connectable to the arrangement, and the other of which comprises the opening code for said other lock and is not legible by means of the switching apparatus.
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SE77.02239-0 1977-03-01
SE7702239A SE405754B (en) 1977-03-01 1977-03-01 FOR WORTH DOCUMENTS INTENDED BERBAR DEVICE

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AU (1) AU514774B2 (en)
BE (1) BE864264A (en)
CA (1) CA1093898A (en)
CH (1) CH627517A5 (en)
DE (1) DE2807566A1 (en)
DK (1) DK91378A (en)
ES (1) ES467391A1 (en)
FI (1) FI780563A (en)
FR (1) FR2382211A1 (en)
GB (1) GB1576567A (en)
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