Safe gun storage apparatus

• US 5,111,755 A
• Filed: 09/18/1991
• Issued: 05/12/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 01/22/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Mark J. Rouse
• Original Assignee: Mark J. Rouse
• Inventors: Rouse, Mark J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Luebke, Renee S.
• Assistant Examiner(s): BARRETT, SUZANNE LALE DINO
• Application Number:
  US07/762,636
• Time in Patent Office: 237 Days
• Field of Search: 70/57, 70/58, 70/63, 70/290, 292/57, 109/25, 109/39, 109/45, 109/47, 109/50-52, 109/59, 109/73, 109/38
• US Class Current: 109/25
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 81/005 Devices for storing or displaying rifles, guns, pistols or elongated objects such as fishing rods storing fishing rods or the like in vehicles B60R7/08; storing guns in vehicles B60R7/14; cases for carrying guns F41C33/00
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 19/0005 Key safes E05B35/086 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: E05G 1/00 Safes or strong-rooms for valuables savings boxes A45C1/12; floatable safes B63C7/30; storage containers without attack or fire-retardant features B65D; bank buildings in general, e.g. modular construction or floor plan, E04H1/06; buildings resistant to earthquakes or war action E04H9/00
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/20 for furniture, e.g. cabinets
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/5031 Receptacle

Abstract

A safe gun storage apparatus is disclosed for the storage therein and ready accessibility of a loaded handgun, said storage apparatus having child-deterrent latching apparatus provided therein is disclosed. A gun drawer containing a loaded handgun is retained within a cabinet which is substantially impervious to destruction and being pried open. Dual entry locking apparatus secures the loaded gun with the storage container. A first locking apparatus involving entry of a predetermined key punch code first unlocks a secondary child-deterrent latching apparatus. The latter unlatches after a given sequence of operations are carried out which then unlatches a latching bolt from within an opening provided within the drawer. The accessibility and, therefore, the gun within the drawer is provided in a quiet and otherwise undetectable mode of operation.

Claims

1. A child-deterrent, safe gun storage apparatus for storage therein of a loaded handgun comprising

a container,

gun drawer storage means, lockingly fitted within said container,

a first locking means for locking a second locking means,

said second locking means providing for release of said gun storage drawer containing said gun, and

said second locking means comprising locking apparatus having a variously shaped groove in combination with a pin or like device which groove and pin are unobservable from outside of the container, whereby said second locking means is unlocked by moving said groove relative to said pin in a predetermined sequence of axial and circumferential movements.

2. The safe gun storage apparatus of claim 1, wherein said child deterrent locking apparatus includes a locking bolt engageable within an opening securing said gun drawer to said container.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein said child deterrent locking apparatus comprises said locking bolt having a pin attached thereto and a cylinder apparatus within which said locking bolt is slidingly received, said cylinder including said varyingly shaped groove.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein said sequence of operations includes a first axial movement, a first circumferential movement, a second axial movement, a second circumferential movement, and a third axial movement.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said first locking means comprises a keyboard arrangement operatively connected to a solenoid, said solenoid having a plunger therein, said plunger being lockingly fitted within a latching bolt of said second locking means.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said gun drawer containing said gun is releasable downwards with regard to said container.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said gun drawer containing said gun is releasable sideways relative to said container.

10. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said gun drawer containing said gun is releasable from the front of said container.

12. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said gun drawer includes a bottom panel which forms the botton panel of said container when said gun drawer is secured within said container, said bottom panel having sloped side edge means for preventing said gun drawer from being pried open by use of a flat bladed tool.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, including angled metal members attached to the inside surface of said container at the location of the upper surface of said gun drawer bottom panel when said gun drawer is fully inserted within said container.

14. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein said container includes front, side and back panels with an open bottom end, said front, side and back panels at the location of said open bottom end, each including sloped inside surface means for forming a ledge which covers an interface between an angle member resting on said ledge on the inside surface of said container.

15. The apparatus of claim 1, including frame means for positioning said safe gun storage apparatus therebetween, said frame means being adaptable to be fitted within an opening in a wall or other like structure.

8. A child-deterrent, safe gun storage apparatus for storing a loaded gun therein comprising

a container,

a slidable panel lockingly attached to said container,

a first locking means for lockingly securing a second locking means,

said second locking means providing for unlocking of said slidable panel and gaining access to said gun, and

said second locking means comprising a child-deterrent locking apparatus whereby predetermined manipulation of said first locking means and predetermined unobservable movement of said second locking means causes said slidable panel to side open relative to said container.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein said second locking means comprises a locking bolt engageable within an opening within said container, said locking bolt having a pin therein, said pin fitting within a varyingly shaped groove in a cylinder within which said locking bolt slidingly fits, said cylinder containing said varyingly shaped groove.

11. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein said slidable panel comprises the front panel of said container.