System for detaining robbers on premises

• US 4,461,221 A
• Filed: 09/30/1982
• Issued: 07/24/1984
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/1982
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Alfred J. Schandle, Andrew G. Bakoledis
• Original Assignee: Alfred J. Schandle, Andrew G. Bakoledis
• Inventors: Bakoledis, Andrew G., Schandle, Alfred J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Mancene, Gene
• Assistant Examiner(s): WEISS, JOHN
• Application Number:
  US06/429,603
• Time in Patent Office: 663 Days
• Field of Search: 109/2, 109/3, 109/6, 109/32, 109/1 R, 109/31
• US Class Current: 109/6
• CPC Class Codes: E05G 5/02 Trapping or confining mechanisms, e.g. transaction security boothsthief or burglar incapacitating means in general G08B15/00

Abstract

A system of detaining a robber on the premises robbed after the robbery has taken place. The premises is provided with lobby entrances having inner and outer doors through which persons entering and leaving the premises must pass. Once a robbery commences, the doors to the lobbies are automatically locked. In the money handed to the robber, there is concealed a radio transmitter which transmits a narrow wave length signal. Mounted in the wall adjacent to each lobby inner door inside the premises proper there is mounted a receiver which is tuned to the narrow wave length and which has a limited range of reception on the order of about five feet or so. When the transmitter carried by the robber is within the receiving range of the receiver, the inner lobby door can be opened from inside the premises. Once the robber enters the lobby, neither of the lobby doors can be opened by the robber and he will be caught in the lobby.

Claims

1. A security system for a bank building or the like having a main business area wherein money transactions are carried out, said building being accessible to the public only through one or more lobbies having motor operated outer and inner doors wherein the outer doors allow access between outside the building and the lobbies and the inner doors allow access between the lobbies and the main business area, said system comprising:

(a) first manually operable means for opening the outer lobby doors to enter the lobbies from outside the building;

(b) second manually operable means for opening the inner lobby doors to enter the main business area from inside the lobbies;

(c) third manually operable means for opening the inner lobby doors to enter the lobbies from the main business area;

(d) fourth manually operable means for opening the outer lobby doors to exit the lobbies to outside the building;

(e) means inside the main business area having a plurality of compartments for holding currency, one of said compartments having sensor means therein for detecting the presence or absence of a currency packet in said one of said compartments;

(f) door locking means for locking said inner and outer lobby doors in a closed position when said sensor means detects the absence of a currency packet in said one of said compartments;

(g) means for disabling said first, second, third and fourth manually operable means from opening said lobby doors when the latter are locked by said locking means;

(h) narrow wavelength radio receiver means mounted adjacent said inner lobby doors in said main business area, said receiver means having a limited signal reception range on the order of several feet;

(i) a miniature radio transmitter concealed in a packet of currency normally disposed in said one of said compartments, said transmitter emitting a radio signal of the same wavelength as said receiver means; and

(j) means operably connected to said receiver means for temporarily enabling said third manually operable means only to open said inner lobby doors when said transmitter is within the effective receiving range of said receiver.

2. The security system of claim 1, further comprising means in said one of said compartments for preventing said transmitter from transmitting a radio signal while said packet of currency remains in said one of said compartments.

3. The security system of claim 2, further comprising miniaturized radio signal receiver means associated with said one of said compartments to detect operation of said transmitter, and indicator means operably connected to said miniaturized radio signal receiver means to provide a visual indication of the operability of said transmitter.

4. The security system of claim 1, further comprising manually operable override means for selectively overriding said door locking means to open said lobby outer doors only.

5. The security system of claim 1, further comprising metal detector means adjacent said lobbies for detecting firearms on the person of one located in said lobbies, and means for actuating said metal detector means in response to detection of a radio signal by said receiver means.

6. The security system of claim 1, further comprising means mounted outside of the building for use by security personnel for selectively opening said lobby outer doors only.

7. The security system of claim 1, further comprising means operably connected to said sensor means for operating a camera to film occurrences in the main business area of the building when said sensor means detects the absence of a currency packet in said one of said compartments.

8. The security system of claim 1, further comprising means operably connected to said sensor means for activating a warning sign located outside of said building when said sensor means detects the absence of a currency packet in said one of said compartments.

9. The security system of claim 1, further comprising means operably connected to said receiver means for activating audio message transmitters located in said lobbies and intercom units located in said lobbies and in the main business area of said building, and outside of said building when said receiver means receives a radio signal from said miniature radio transmitter.

10. For use in a building security system, a lobby construction comprising:

(a) inner, outer, top and side walls operable to form a lobby through which persons must pass to enter and leave the building;

(b) inner and outer lobby doors operable to open and close by sliding into and out of said inner and outer walls;

(c) locking means in said lobby walls operable to lock said inner and outer doors in a closed position;

(d) first manually operable means in said outer wall for opening said outer lobby doors from outside of the lobby to allow entry into the lobby through said outer lobby doors;

(e) second manually operable in said inner wall for opening said inner lobby doors from inside of the lobby to allow exit from the lobby through said inner lobby doors;

(f) third manually operable means in said inner lobby wall for opening said inner lobby doors from outside of the lobby to allow entry into the lobby through said inner lobby doors;

(g) fourth manually operable means in said outer lobby wall for opening said outer lobby doors from inside the lobby to allow exit from the lobby through said outer lobby doors;

(h) means in said lobby walls for selectively actuating said locking means;

(i) narrow wavelength radio signal receiving means in said inner wall, said radio signal receiving means having an effective receiving range on the order of several feet; and

(j) disabling means in said lobby walls operably connected to said radio signal receiving means and to said locking means, said disabling means being operable to disable said locking means to the extent that only said third manually operable means will be operable to open said inside lobby doors when a proper wavelength radio signal is received by said radio signal receiving means.

11. The lobby construction of claim 10, further comprising intercom means mounted in said lobby walls, and means operably interconnecting said radio signal receiving means and said intercom means for activating the latter upon receipt of a proper wavelength radio signal by said radio signal receiving means to enable voice communication between persons located inside and outside of said lobby.

12. The lobby construction of claim 10, further comprising metal detector means disposed in said lobby walls, and means operably interconnecting said radio signal receiving means and said metal detector means for activating the latter upon receipt of a proper wavelength radio signal by said radio signal receiving means.

13. The lobby construction of claim 10, further comprising audio tape playing means disposed in said lobby walls, and means operably interconnecting said radio signal receiving means and said audio tape playing means for activating the latter upon receipt of a proper wavelength radio signal by said radio signal receiving means.

14. The lobby construction of claim 10, further comprising means mounted in said outer wall outside the building for use by security personnel for selectively opening said lobby outer doors only.