US2027353A - Safe - Google Patents

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Jan. 7, 1936.,

M. D. BENNETT ET AL. SAFE l Filed July 2l, 1932 /N VENTO/65 ATTORNEY Patented `Ian. 7, 1936 UNITED STATES PATENT GFFICE SAFE tion of Connecticut Application `l'uly 21, 1932, Serial No. 623,730

4 Claims.

This invention relates to safes, and more especially to safes of the type adapted to be used in banks for the purpose of housing currency used during the regular banking hours when the fmain vaults are open.

It is the special object of this invention to devise a safe which may be equipped with a currency drawer for regular use in making change, and in holding the currency used during the ordinary days business of a bank or other institution of like character. It is a further object of the invention to so devise the safe that it will contain a vault chamber which will hold, therein, a reserve amount of money which will be constantly maintained in a locked condition.

It is a further object of the invention to so arrange the currency drawer that it may, at any time, be moved to a fully closed position, at which time it will come under the surveillance or control of the locking mechanism of the vault chamber of the safe.

This invention is especially intended to prevent daylight robberies by armed bandits whose object it is to obtain the loose currency used 2.5 during the day in the ordinary regular banking business when the vaults of the safe are open. Thus, in the morning, when the bank is opened, the main portion of the currency may be housed in the Vault compartment of our safe referred to above, and the relatively small amount of change currency necessary can be placed in the currency drawer which is used by the teller, as will be readily understood. The vault compartment of the safe is kept time locked, or otherwise maintained in locked condition, while the currency drawer is maintained open for ready access in making change, etc. In case of attack, the closing of the drawer will automatically place it under locked condition as determined by the time or other lock always eiectively locking the safe vault compartment.

For a clear description of our invention, we shall refer to the drawing wherein Fig. 1 illustrates a front View of our safe with portions cut away to show the internal locking construction. Fig. 2 is a side View of the safe of Fig. l, also showing certain of the mechanism. Fig. 3 is a View of Fig. 1 along the lines 3-3. Fig. 4 is a View of Fig. 3 along lines 4-v-4.

Referring no-w more particularly to the drawing, reference numeral Ill indicates a safe structure which comprises a vault compartment`II to which access is prevented by a door I2, and a regular currency drawer I3.

This currency drawer is equipped with a handle I4, by which it may be pulled to an outward position such as is illustrated in Fig. 3, in which position the money in the drawer may be handled in the regular manner by the bank teller. Y The major portion of the money to be used for 5 the days business in the bank is maintained in the vault chamber II, which is kept inaccessible by the safe door I2.

For controlling the opening movement of the safe door I2, there are bolts I5 and I5 which are 10 actuated by the handle Il as is readily understood in theart. A cross-bar I8 is secured for movement with the bolts I5 and I6, and this cross bar is equipped with a detent I9 which cooperates in a conventional manner with a time 15 lock 20 for preventing the opening of the safe door until the time movement runs a predetermined length of time. The operation of the handle I'I is further controlled by a combination lock 2I. In sofar as the construction of the 20 vault and the operation of the bolt mechanism and the time lock and combination mechanism is concerned, it is all outside the scope of this invention.

Mounted between the currency drawer I3 and 25 the vault compartment is a latchbolt mechanism 22 secured to the frame member 23 by any preferred means. The tube 24 of the latchbolt constructionv contains the latchbolt 25 which is spring pressed outwardly a limited amount rel- 30 atively to a gravity base member 25. The latch 25 and the base member 25 occupy a lower position relatively to the tube 24 as is illustrated in Fig. 3 where the vault door bolts are shown in their unlocked position. 35

As will be readily seen, the bolt mechanism I5 carries a slotted plate 2l which has a pin and slot connection 28 with the clogging member 29 maintained in position by the tube 39 secured to the :trame member 3| (Fig. 4). It will be quite 40 obvious that as the bolt I5 is thrown to the left from its position of Figs. l and 4, it will move the dog 29 to an upward position against the gravity member 26 and move that member and the bolt 25 to the upward position illustrated in 45 Fig. 2. The drawer is equipped with a strike mechanism 32 which will ride against the bolt 25 when the drawer moves to a closed position, so as to depress the bolt, the bolt being adapted to spring back into the position of Fig. 2, so as 50 to securely maintain the drawer in its closed position.

The operation of our invention will be as follows: The vault chamber will normally be maintained closed by the locking of the door I2 by 55 tion between said compartments, a lock for one with said first lock, so as-to move its bolt and the bolts l5 and I6. The dog 29 will, under those conditions, maintain the bolt and its gravity member 26 in the upward position of Fig. 2. Upon alarm, the teller will move the drawer to its closed position, wherein the strike 32 will come into position relatively to the bolt illustrated in Fig. 2 and the drawer will also be maintained locked until such time as the time lock 20 operates.

What is claimed is,

1. In a safe, a compartment having a door, a drawer in said safe, a partition between said compartment and drawer, a bolt having a latching end mounted in said partition, a lock for said door, means for operating said door lock and said bolt simultaneously, said bolt latching end being depressible by said drawer in one of the positions of said bolt whereby to permit the drawer to close and to be locked, said bolt and latching end being retractible as a unit upon release of the door lock whereby to release said drawer.

2. In a safe, a pair of compartments, means for locking both of said compartments, a partiof said compartments, a lock for the other of said compartments mounted in said partition, said second lock comprising a bolt having a latching end, means for operating said second lock latching end into latching position, and means for withdrawing said bolt and its latching end as a unit when said rst lock is released.

3. In a safe, a compartment having a door, a drawer in said safe, a bolt having a latching end, means on said drawer adapted to depress said latching end as the drawer is shut, said latching end being thereafter movable into locking cooperation with a locking portion of said drawer, a lock for said door, and means of connection between said door lock and said drawer bolt whereby said bolt is withdrawn carrying its latching end out of drawer locking position as said door lock is released, said bolt being movable so as to bring its latching end into locking position as said door lock is locked.

4. In a safe, a pair of compartments, a partltion between said compartments, a lock for one of said compartments, a lock for the other of said compartments mounted in said partition, 20

said second lock comprising a bolt having a latching end, means for operating said second lock, means for operating the first lock, said means being interconnected so that said second lock is operable with said rst lock, so as to move 25 its bolt and latching end into latching position, and means for positively withdrawing said bolt and its latching end as a unit when said first lock is released.

MAURICE D. BENNETT. SYLVANUS M. ARCHER.

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