Remotely activated, nonobvious prisoner control apparatus

• US 4,943,885 A
• Filed: 02/16/1988
• Issued: 07/24/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 02/16/1988
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Brian D. Willoughby, Carl W. Roy II
• Original Assignee: Brian D. Willoughby, Carl W. Roy II
• Inventors: Willoughby, Brian D., Roy, Carl W. II
• Primary Examiner(s): Hix, L. T.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Gray, David M.
• Application Number:
  US07/155,736
• Time in Patent Office: 889 Days
• Field of Search: 128/869, 128/876, 128/387, 128/388, 128/419 S, 128/802, 119/29, 361/232, 70/15-17, 109/35
• US Class Current: 361/232
• CPC Class Codes: F41B 15/04 with electric stunning-means ejecting electrically charged liquid jets F41B9/00; electric shock creating harpoons F42B30/14; electric circuits or apparatus for killing or stunning H05C
• CPC Class Codes: F41B 9/00 Liquid ejecting guns, e.g. water pistols , devices ejecting electrically charged liquid jets, devices ejecting liquid jets by explosive pressure
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 13/0018 for nearby electrical discharge, i.e. the electrodes being positioned on the device and the device brought manually or otherwise into contact with a nearby target batons with electric discharge capability F41B15/04; electric shock devices for animals A01K15/02
• CPC Class Codes: H05C 1/04 providing pulse voltages mechanical self-interrupters H01H; electronic pulse-generators H03K

Abstract

Restraint apparatus for prisoners is worn beneath ordinary clothing so as to be unseen by the general public, in order that the prisoner'"'"'s presumption of innocence not be denigrated by public display as is the case with manacles or the like. The apparatus operates by remote activation of an effective but nonlethal impact, such as a brief electrical interference with the somatic nervous system, or discharge of a small dose of tear gas or mace into the prisoner'"'"'s breathing space.

Claims

1. Apparatus for control of a dangerous prisoner to prevent unpredictable dangerous actions by said dangerous prisoner while in social context situations while nevertheless concealing such apparatus from public view, comprising:

incapacitant delivery means,

torso mounting means comprising a belt of sufficient extent to encircle a prisoner'"'"'s torso and means for securing said incapacitant delivery means in contact with said prisoner'"'"'s torso,

said mounting means being adapted for concealment beneath garments ordinarily worn by ordinary persons in said social context to prevent said prisoner from being marked by observers in said social context as a person under restraint,

said incapacitant delivery means being powered to deliver an incapacitating electrical shock to said prisoner,

said mounting means further including means for receiving a remotely activated signal, and

means in said mounting means responsive to said signal for delivering said incapacitating electrical shock to said prisoner.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said signal includes a predetermined code corresponding to a particular prisoner, for selectively identifying and distinguishing a particular signal from other signals,

said apparatus being responsive for activation exclusively through means in said receiving means for selectively identifying and distinguishing said particular signal according to said predetermined code, for limiting impact of said apparatus to said particular prisoner.

3. The restraint apparatus of claim 1 wherein an incapacitant to be delivered includes nonlethal electric shocking means characterized by pulsatile, high-voltage, low-powered, short-duration electric shock outputs.

4. Nonobvious prisoner control apparatus for operation by a controlling authority located remotely from a prisoner, while said prisoner is in clothing both appropriate to a public situation, and permitting normal functions of movement by said prisoner comprising:

means concealable beneath said appropriate clothing of said prisoner to, be controlled, securely banded around said prisoner s torso, for delivery of a nonlethal disabling electrical impulse to said prisoner,

means connected to said electrical impulse delivery means for receiving a signal, including means for activating said electrical impulse delivery means upon receipt of said signal, and

means, operable by said controlling authority, for generating and transmitting said signal for activating said electrical impulse delivery means to disable said prisoner.

5. Range-oriented prisoner control apparatus for operation remote from a prisoner, comprising:

means for delivery of a nonlethal disabling electrical impulse to the skin of a prisoner to be controlled,

means connected to said electrical impulse delivery means for receiving a signal, including means for activating said electrical impulse delivery means upon nonreceipt of said signal, and

means for generating and transmitting said signal within only a predetermined distance, for preventing activating said electrical impulse delivery means to disable said prisoner.