Vault security system

• US 4,003,026 A
• Filed: 07/07/1975
• Issued: 01/11/1977
• Est. Priority Date: 07/07/1975
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Herbert L. Wallerstein Jr
• Original Assignee: Herbert L. Wallerstein Jr
• Inventors: Wallerstein, Herbert L. Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Pitts, Harold I.
• Application Number:
  US05/593,267
• Time in Patent Office: 554 Days
• Field of Search: 109/3, 109/9, 340/149 A, 340/51, 340/149 K, 340/147 MD, 235/61.11 R
• US Class Current: 340/5.73
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 15/00 Identifying, scaring or incapacitating burglars, thieves or intruders, e.g. by explosives

Abstract

A vault security system is provided for the storage of valuables with the system having specific means for the exclusion of unauthorized persons therefrom. The security system comprises a plurality of corridors, with storage vaults therein, a plurality of holding mechanisms having a series of doors for receiving and releasing persons, one of the holding mechanisms located at the entrance to each corridor, and a plurality of access mechanisms, one of which corresponds to each of the corridors. The access mechanism is operable in conjunction with the doors in the corresponding holding mechanism for gaining access to that corridor. The access mechanism will deny access to all non-corresponding corridors and cooperate with the holding mechanism thereof for holding an unauthorized intruder.

Claims

1. A vault security system, for the storage of valuables and the exclusion of unauthorized persons comprising:

a plurality of corridors each with an entrance;

a plurality of holding means, one of said holding means located at the entrance to each of said corridors for holding an unauthorized person, each of said holding means comprising a room with at least two doors, one of said doors being a corridor door openable so as to allow entry through said entrance into said corridor;

a common hall communicating with said plurality of holding means, one of said doors of said holding means being a hall door openable so as to allow entry into said holding means from said common hall, only one of said doors of said holding means openable at any one time; and

a plurality of access means, each of said access means for opening from said common hall all of said hall doors for allowing access from inside said common hall to said plurality of holding means, each of said access means for opening, from inside only one of said plurality of holding means, said corridor door for allowing access to said corridor and said hall door for allowing access back to said common hall, said holding means for holding the unauthorized person attempting to enter any of said corridors through said holding means located at the entrance thereof with an access means that does not open said corridor door and said hall door from inside said holding means.

2. A vault security system in accordance with claim 1 further comprising verification means, said verification means including identification card readers, one of said card readers located in said common hall proximal to each of said hall doors, two of said card readers located inside each of said holding means, one proximal to each of said doors, and one of said card readers located in each of said corridors proximal to said corridor door, and wherein said plurality of access means includes a plurality of access identification cards, all of said cards for the activation of said verification means located in said common hall to allow access into all of said holding means, each of said cards for allowing access from only one of said holding means into said corridor by the activation of said verification means located proximal said corridor door and for allowing access from said same holding means back to said common hall by the activation of said verification means located proximal said hall door.

3. A vault security system in accordance with claim 1 wherein each of said corridors is lined with a plurality of vaults, each of said vaults having a plurality of sides, said sides being sensitive to penetration therethrough.

4. A vault security system in accordance with claim 3 wherein each vault includes a door having a first lock means and a second remotely controllable lock means.

5. A vault security system in accordance with claim 1 further comprising a sensing means located in said holding means for sensing when more than one person has entered said holding means and wherein said hall door and said corridor door only allows one person to enter said holding means at a time.

6. A vault security system in accordance with claim 2 further comprising:

a lobby;

a vault door connecting said lobby to said common hall;

a card reader located in said lobby proximal to said vault door, the entrance to said common hall from said lobby being by the insertion of said card into said lobby card reader;

a main entrance holding area;

a lobby door connecting said entrance holding area to said lobby;

a automobile parking area;

a parking area door connecting said parking area to said entrance holding area;

a card reader in said parking area located proximal to said parking area door, the entrance to said holding area from said parking area being by the insertion of said card into said parking area card reader;

a main entrance door to said parking area; and

a card reader located proximal to said main entrance door, the entrance to said parking area through said entrance door being by the insertion of said card into said entrance door card reader.

7. A vault security system in accordance with claim 6 wherein said holding means, and said entrance holding area have installed therein audio and video surveillance equipment, and further comprising a guard room accessible from said lobby for monitoring said audio and video equipment and recording the incidences of use of said card readers, said entrance holding area for the identification of a person prior to the unlocking of said lobby door, thereby allowing access to said lobby.