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Criminal trap

  • US 3,965,827 A
  • Filed: 12/02/1974
  • Issued: 06/29/1976
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/02/1974
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A criminal trap intended for use in banks and similar institutions and positioned forwardly of and spaced above a series of side-by-side tellers'"'"' windows, the trap comprising, in combination:

  • a hollow open bottom cylindrical cage body member manufactured of bullet proof material and having cylindrical side walls, a flat top end, and an open bottom end;

    a hollow cylindrically shaped compartment defined interiorly of said cage body member opening out of the bottom end thereof and of a size and configuration adapted to readily envelope therein an individual over which the cage body member is lowered;

    a pair of horizontally spaced apart tandemly disposed sprocket members each rotatively mounted about their axis and disposed in parallel relationship to each other and adapted to be rotatably mounted above opposite ends of the series of tellers windows;

    an endless continuous chain trained over said sprockets and having an upper run and a lower run;

    means for raising and lowering said cage body member in a vertical direction;

    means affixing said vertical raising and lowering means to said chain for positioning said cage body member in a horizontal direction;

    an electrical motor connected to the axis of one of said sprockets for drivingly moving said chain in selected opposite directions thereabout;

    a multi-positioned electrical panel connected to said electric motor by suitably insulated electrical wiring and connected to a suitable source of electrical energy for selective control of said energization and de-energization of said electric motor for movement of said chain about said sprockets; and

    means for dispensing anesthetizing gas into said cage compartment upon the lowering of said cage body member.

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