Safes – bank protection – or a related device – Bank protection devices – Safety transaction and display partitions and counters
Patent
1981-09-25
1984-08-07
Mancene, Gene
Safes, bank protection, or a related device
Bank protection devices
Safety transaction and display partitions and counters
109 13, 109 15, 109 16, E06B 902
Patent
active
044636857
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to a protective device against aggressions, of the type exhibiting the form of a counter or cash desk.
A certain number of types of protective devices against aggressions have already been proposed in order to assure the protection of cashier's booths, cash desks and counters and to prevent thefts and hold-ups. These devices are divided into two categories.
The first provides for interposing between the public and the employee, a wall which may or may not be transparent, permanently installed, permitting the passage of articles only through openings of small dimensions, capable in certain cases, of being rapidly closed. In certain cases the wall is replaced by a grill behind which is a system of bullet-proof plates, rapidly raisable, the grill for its part preventing passage across the counter. These devices have the drawback of creating a considerable distance between the public and the employee, which is an impediment to modern commercial methods.
To overcome this drawback, the second category covers devices exhibiting more or less the form of conventional cash desks or counters, that is to say having above the table of the counter or cash-desk a considerable free space which can be rapidly closed by a sliding plate, driven preferably with a vertical upward movement. In fact, a plate which, as has already been proposed, would be driven by a vertical downward movement would be particularly dangerous and this solution has generally been rejected.
In the presently known devices, the protective plate is concealed in the counter or cash desk and in the case of aggression is propelled upwards by suitable drive means to block the space situated above the cash desk.
One of these devices, described in French Pat. No. 2,242,735 has met with wide commercial success by reason of its particular qualities, notably by reason of the reduced risk of accident and of difficulty in preventing its operation.
Devices of this type have however the drawback of being relatively complex and of imposing particular requirements for their installation. In fact, the need to conceal the plate within the cash-desk or counter is a nuisance in a large number of cases and is generally incompatible with the maintenance of old cash-desks or counters.
In addition, these devices require considerable drive means which must also be, generally, installed at the internal part of the counter or cash-desk.
It is an object of the present invention to overcome these drawbacks and to provide a protective device against aggressions which permits, if desired, the maintenance of existing cash-desks or counters and which is, moreover, capable of being adapted to very different heights with the minimum of changes, these various qualities enabling a device according to the invention to have a cost price and an installation price which is particularly low.
According to the invention there is provided a protective device against aggressions of the type comprising, at the lower part, a tray or cash-desk surmounted by a free space without obstacle to passage therethrough, and means permitting the rapid closure, from below upwards of said space arranged above the tray, characterised by the fact that said closure means comprise at least one bullet-proof portion of the tray, said portion being movable from a lowered position in which it is substantially horizontal to a raised position in which it blocks the space preventing passage therethrough and protecting it against bullets.
Preferably, the tray, or said tray portion, is formed by several elements articulated one after the other or separately, on horizontal axles, the various elements becoming arranged one after the other when they are brought into vertical or oblique raised position to block the space situated above the counter or cash-desk.
Advantageously, said tray or said tray portion may, in their lowered position, be simply arranged on the upper portion of the cash-desk or counter, resting on this upper portion or being suspended at a short distance from the latter.
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Mancene Gene
Tarnoff David I.
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