Security doors

• US 4,481,887 A
• Filed: 08/31/1982
• Issued: 11/13/1984
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/1982
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Enrique Urbano
• Original Assignee: Enrique Urbano
• Inventors: Urbano, Enrique
• Primary Examiner(s): Mancene, Gene
• Assistant Examiner(s): Schulze, Kris R.
• Application Number:
  US06/413,499
• Time in Patent Office: 805 Days
• Field of Search: 109/2-8, 109/12, 49/30, 49/68
• US Class Current: 109/3
• 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 security door and system for installation as the entrance and exit to a building or office to automatically control the passage of persons therethrough and to trap certain persons therein comprising a vestibule having side walls and oppositely disposed doors which open and close automatically under the control of photocell detectors and time delay relays. The photocells energize motors which open a respective door through which the person may enter the unit. After a predetermined time delay the opposite door opens. An emergency switch is provided to override the automatic control so that a person can be trapped and detained within the vestibule if desired or necessary.

Claims

1. A security door system for a building, office, or the like of the type wherein a vestibule is provided as the passageway through which people must enter and leave comprising, an outer door, an inner door, an enclosed passageway between said outer and inner doors comprised of a floor, ceiling and side walls, said doors, side walls, ceiling and floor being formed of panels of bullet-proof material joined together at their edges, door operating means to open and close said doors, entrance detector means for each door to detect the presence of a person in position to enter said passageway and operably connected to said door operating means to cause said door operating means to open the door at which said person is detected and to close said door when said person is inside said passageway, door closing detector means to detect the closed position of said door, time delay means operably connected to said door closing detector means to be energized thereby and operably connected to said door operating means for the other door so that after a pre-set time delay the door operating means for said other door opens said other door to allow said person to exit therethrough, locking control means operably connected to said door operating means to selectively prevent said door operating means from opening any of said doors after said person is inside said passageway to thereby imprison said person within said passageway, said vestibule being constructed of a hollow framework formed of vertical and horizontal frame members and door frames for said doors, said panels being attached at their edges to said frame members, said inner and outer doors each comprising a set of double doors connected by hinges at their vertical outer edges to said door frames for swinging movement, the inner edges of each set of doors meeting in abutting relationship when closed at substantially the center of the doorway, said panels being transparent and attached to said framework, and further comprising venting means to ventilate said passageway, and green and red indicating lights provided adjacent each doorway operably connected to said door operating means to provide visual signals to control traffic through said passageway.

2. The security door system as claimed in claim 1 wherein said door operating means comprises a separate motor control means and electric motor drive means for each set of doors, each motor control means controlling the respective motor drive means to open the respective doors through which a person is passing inwardly for entrance into said passageway and outwardly for exit from said passageway.

3. The security door system as claimed in claim 2 wherein said motor control means, electric motor drive means, entrance detection means, door closing detection means, time delay means and locking control means are interconnected in an electrical circuit, and further comprising an electrical power supply connected to said circuit, said locking control means comprising means to break said power supply circuit to said entrance detection means, motor control means for said outer doors, time delay means and door closing detector means.

4. The security door system as claimed in claim 3 wherein said means to break said power supply circuit comprises a normally closed relay in said power supply circuit and switch means to operate said relay.

5. The security door system as claimed in claim 4 wherein said switch means comprises a manually operated normally open switch operably connected in the power circuit to said relay.

6. The security door system as claimed in claim 3 wherein said locking control means comprises a remotely activated receiver means connected to an overriding means operably connected in said circuit to override the operation of the components thereof so that after the inner door is opened and closed, the doors are locked and can thereafter be opened only by a remotely operated means deenergizing said overriding means, remote switch means to emit a signal to actuate said receiver means and thereby said overriding means, and remotely operated deenergizing means to deenergize said overriding means.