Closure assembly with protective lock

• US 4,345,448 A
• Filed: 09/28/1978
• Issued: 08/24/1982
• Est. Priority Date: 09/01/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Martin D. Solomon
• Original Assignee: Martin D. Solomon
• Inventors: Solomon, Martin D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Bonck, Rodney H.
• Application Number:
  US05/946,651
• Time in Patent Office: 1,426 Days
• Field of Search: 70/2, 70/6-12, 70/32, 70/33, 70/55, 70/56, 70/95, 70/85, 70/416, 160/133, 292/DIG. 46, 292/148, 292/281, 292/346
• US Class Current: 70/95
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 65/0864 the bolts sliding perpendicular to the wings
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 67/36 Padlocks with closing means other than shackles ; Removable locks, the lock body itself being the locking element; Padlocks consisting of two separable halves or cooperating with a stud
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 292/46 Sliding door fasteners
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 292/79 Bolt guards
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/30 Hasp
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/333 Key lock
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/5173 Sliding door
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/7915 Tampering prevention or attack defeating

Abstract

A locking assembly for normally separable apertured structures which protect business fronts against burglary. The locking assembly includes a sturdy, straight pin which penetrates all apertures, and is part of a sturdy bracket which overlies a fixed standard or post. The arrangement is such as to permit a key operated locking device to lie flatly and directly upon the bracket so as to prevent removal of the bracket and its above mentioned pin. The overall arrangement is such as to guard against burglary by an unauthorized person using forceful tools, and to prevent access to the pin for the purpose of destroying or cutting it.

Claims

1. A gate locking system for securely closing an opening comprising

a pair of opposed channeled guide tracks, one of said tracks having a fixed ear extending therefrom with an aperture through said ear and having a hole therethrough adjacent said ear;

a gate movable within said tracks between open and closed positions;

said gate including at least one recessed portion with an aperture therethrough;

a bracket having a flat plate with a slot therein for receiving said ear, a pin extending perpendicularly from one surface of said plate adjacent said slot, and a barrier member extending from said plate in a plane substantially perpendicular to said plate and from said one surface thereof;

said bracket being placed on said one track so that said ear extends through said slot to expose said ear aperture, said pin extends through said gate aperture and said track hole to lock said gate, and said barrier member extends across a portion of the mouth of said one track and engages said gate recessed portion to lock said gate and block access to said pin when said gate is in said closed position; and

a lock within which said ear is received with a portion of said lock extending through said ear aperture to secure said bracket to said track;

whereby the engagement of said pin with said gate aperture and said track hole constitutes a primary locking mechanism, and the engagement of said barrier with said recessed portion of said gate provides a back-up locking mechanism as well as blocking access to said pin.

2. A gate locking system according to claim 1, wherein said one track comprises a U-shaped channel having two legs;

said track hole extends through each of said legs; and

said pin traverses the entire width of said one track.

3. A gate locking system according to claim 1, wherein said bracket plate overlies said one track from said barrier member at the mouth of said one track to a line short of the opposite side of said one track, thereby forming a step at said line;

and

said lock is in the form of a disk having a stepped undersurface with an underside slot to receive said ear;

whereby said lock lies flat against said bracket and said one track to prevent entry of a burglarizing tool and to prevent rotation therebetween.

4. A gate locking system according to claim 1, wherein said barrier member is convexly curved at its end remote from said plate and said recessed portion of said gate is curved to mate with said end of said barrier member.

5. A gate locking system according to claim 1, wherein said gate comprises a series of concave-convex louvres which are hingedly interconnected.

6. A gate locking system according to claim 1, wherein said bracket is not hinged to said one track to permit said pin to pass through said track hole and said gate aperture while moving along a straight line.

7. A gate locking system according to claim 1, wherein each of said tracks has a duplicate one of said hole, ear, bracket and lock to permit locking at both tracks.

8. A gate locking system according to claim 1, wherein said bracket is held flatly against said one track solely by the action of said lock, and is otherwise freely separable from said one track.