US1561874A - Safe - Google Patents

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Nov. 17 1925 1,561,874

W. C. MACFADDEN SAFE Filed Aug. 29, 1924 I Irin- 0 Iiifiillfl lliilmfifi iam g f 5w N g 4 ATT RNEY Patented Nov. 17, 1925.

WILLIAM G. MAC'FADDEN, or FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA.

. SAFE.

Application filed'August 29,1924. Serial No. 724,929.

. To all w/lmn it may concern:

Be it known that I, "WILLIAM C. MAoFAD- DEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fargo, in the county of Cass and State of North Dakota, have invented new and useful Improvements in Safes, of which the following is a specification.

The almost daily occurrence of robberies of small banks, and particularly country banks, has led to a wide spread study of the problem of constructing asafe which is impregnable to modern methods of attack. It is well known that all metals suitable for making safes can be burnt by gas or electric torches, although safes which are proof against blasting. have been constructed of manganese steel. Such safes are in present, general use. I

'As far as applicant is aware, in all of the successful robberies of these manganese steel safes, the procedure hasbeen about as follows. A small hole is first burnt or drilled at or near the top of the safe to permit filling the safe with water. After filling with water, a hole large enough to permit the withdrawal of the contents is burnt in the top of the safe. During the burning, the water prevents the intense heat of the torch from consuming or melting the valuable contents of the safe.

It is my object to guard against robberies of the kind described above by providing a receptacle for valuables formed to efficient ly resist attack and adapted to be so placed in any of the modern safes that it is inaccessible and cannot, therefore, be reached for burning.

A further object is to provide an inexpensive device of this kind having a series of protected compartments which are easily accessible when the safe door is open.

This invention also includes certain other novel features of construction which will be more fully described and pointed out in the following specification and claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the best form of my device at present known to me, Figure 1 is a front elevat-ion of the protected receptacle removed from the safe proper; Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same in position in a modern safe, the safe being shown incentral, vertical section; Fig. 3 is a plan View of the device within the safe, which is shown in central, horizontal section and Fig. 4 is a front elevation of the safe with the door closed.

- I The guarded compartment or receptacle A is substantially rectangular and is provided with a strong, outer casing 5 extending about the top, bottom and lateral sides. The front of the receptacle A is open so as to allow ready access to a series of pigeon holes formed by horizontal partitions 6 and vertical partitions 7. To further protect the sides and top of thereceptacle A, a layer 8 of concrete is placed between the casing 5 and the inner wall 9. The back 10 of the receptacle A may be open or closed, as desired, al-

though in thestructure shown, the back is open.

The protected receptacle A may be inserted through the opening for a circular door 11 in a manganese steel safe 12. WVhen in place, the receptacle occupies the lower part of the safe and extends from the back wall 13 thereof to the inner surface of the door. Thus, tilting of the receptacle is prevented either in a forward or backward direction. Suitable lugs 15 fast on the sides of the receptacle are adapted to receive bolts 14 for securing the same upon the back wall 13 of the safe.

hen in place in the safe, it will be observed that the receptacle A is spaced a substantial. distance away from both the top and the lateral walls thereof. In use, the most valuable property to be stored (such as gold, negotiable bonds and currency of the higher dencuninations) is placed within the receptacle A. the non-negotiable securities. silver and less valuable papers being stored elsewhere in the safe.

If itbe attempted to rob the safe by the method above described, the contents of the receptacle A will be inaccessible even after the outer wall of the safe has been penetrated. 7 To reach the receptacle A with the torch, it would require not only that a substantial part of the water be removed from the safe but that a very large hole be cut in the top to permit the torch to be manipulated within the safe body. Under these conditions, the concrete layer 8, makes it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to ra idly burn a hole in the receptacle A. Furt er, the time required to burn a large enough hole in the top of the safe to permit the neoessary manipulation of the torch in contact 7 bottom of the receptacle may be cemented to the back and bottom of the safe, the space beneath the receptacle being filled with the cement. Vr'ith such an arrangement, the casing 5 would be estended over the back of the receptacle and the bolts 1% and lugs 15 could be omitted.

The casing 5 is made of a rigid, tough metal which is reinforced by the grid formed by the horizmital and vertical partitions 6 and Thus, the device is rendered sufiiciently' trong to prevent destruction by such pounding or crushing forces as would be exerted through a hole in the safe. It will be noted that the pigeon holes are open to the front so that the contents of the receptacle A are readily accessible when the door 11 of the safe is open.

Haw described my invention what I claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent is:

1. In a device of the class described the combination with a safe having a door, of a receptacle to be guarded adapted to be inserted through said door, said receptacle being disposed in spaced relation with the top of the safe, and a protective casing on the top of said receptacle, the front thereof being open to allow access to the contents through said door.

'2. In a device of the class described. the combination with a safe having a substantially vertical back wall and a door opposite said wall, of a substantially rectangular receptacle to be guarded adapted to be inserted through said door into engagement with said back wall, said receptacle being disposed in spaced relation with the top and lateral sides of the safe, and aprotective casing on the sides and top of said receptacle.

3. In a device of the class described the combination with a safe having a substantially vertical back wall and a door opposite said wall, of a receptacle to be guarded adapted to be inserted through said door into engagen'ient with said back wall, said receptacle being disposed in spaced relation with the top and lateral sides of the safe and extending from the back wall to the door thereof, a protective casing on the sides and top of said receptacle, and horizontal and vertical partitions forming pigeon holes accessible from the front of said receptacle and constituting a reinforcing grid within the same.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name to this specification.

WILLIAM C. MAGFADDEN.

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