Safes – bank protection – or a related device – Wall and panel structures – closures and closure adjuncts – Closures
Patent
1982-09-30
1984-11-20
Mancene, Gene
Safes, bank protection, or a related device
Wall and panel structures, closures and closure adjuncts
Closures
232 44, E05G 1026
Patent
active
044832559
ABSTRACT:
A drawer-type night depository is disclosed which has a drawer which slides in and out of a housing embedded in a wall. The drawer has an unusable dead space in the front thereof and a partial floor comprised of spaced stationary fingers. The night depository also includes rotor fingers which are designed to rotate through the drawer as the drawer is closed. The item being deposited is placed on the stationary fingers. Then as the drawer is closed, the symmetric rotor fingers rotate between and through the stationary fingers, picking up the deposited item and flipping the deposited item through an opening in the drawer and housing into a bin below. The rotor fingers are fixedly attached to a shaft which passes through the drawer. The shaft is rotated by a clutch mechanism as the drawer is closed. The clutch mechanism is designed such that the shaft, and thus the rotor fingers, are rotated 180.degree. each time the drawer is closed. In addition, apparatus is provided such that once the rotor fingers have begun to rotate, it is impossible to open the drawer to get access to the interior of the drawer. Some embodiments include apparatus which prevents the drawer from being closed once it has been opened a predetermined distance without completing a cycle to prevent jimmying of the door.
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Carignan Lucien
Collier, Jr. William S.
Collier Safe Co., Inc.
Mancene Gene
Myers Geoffrey R.
Short Darle M.
Weiss John G.
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