Safes – bank protection – or a related device – Supports and mountings – Detachable from interior only
Patent
1977-11-30
1978-08-22
Stein, Mervin
Safes, bank protection, or a related device
Supports and mountings
Detachable from interior only
109 72, 109 79, 109 84, E05G 1024
Patent
active
041080874
ABSTRACT:
A floor safe engageable in and through a rectangular opening in a wood floor and between opposing sides of laterally spaced joists supporting the floor, said safe including an upwardly opening rectangular box-like body with a horizontal bottom wall and flat vertical side walls slidably arranged in said opening in the floor and between said joists with opposite side wall in substantial flat bearing engagement with said sides of the joists; fastening means fixing the body to the joists including apertures in said opposite side walls and elongate headed fasteners engaged through the openings and into the joists from within the body, a flat horizontal cover plate in overlying supported engagement with the top of the body and having a top surface substantially flush with the floor; said cover plate has a central vertical access opening, releasable coupling means securing the cover plate in tight engagement with the body and including laterally projecting brackets on said side walls between the ends thereof, vertical studs depending from the cover plate and engaged through the brackets and nuts engaged on the studs and advanced upwardly into tight engagement with the brackets, said nuts, studs and brackets being freely manually accessible from above the floor through the access opening and within the body, a flat horizontal closure plate removably engaged in the access opening and locking means releasably locking said closure plate in the access opening.
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patent: 727105 (1903-05-01), Dodson
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patent: 1717682 (1929-06-01), Hahn
Corbin David H.
Maxwell Georges A.
Stein Mervin
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