Security system

• US 5,195,448 A
• Filed: 12/02/1991
• Issued: 03/23/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 12/02/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Allen G. Sims
• Original Assignee: Allen G. Sims
• Inventors: Sims, Allen G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Luebke, Renee S.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Boucher, D.
• Application Number:
  US07/801,420
• Time in Patent Office: 477 Days
• Field of Search: 109/8, 109/3, 109/6, 109/7, 109/20-21, 109/29, 109/31-32, 109/35, 109/67-68, 49/43, 49/42
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/116 for sluices
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/132 Doors

Abstract

An anti-armed robbery system is provided wherein persons enter and exit an establishment through a plurality of floor to ceiling extending walls and lockable doors made of bullet resistant materials forming a completely enclosed bullet resistant vestibule, having means for detecting the entry and exit of persons, and means responsive thereto for allowing the unhampered entry to the establishment of entering persons, and not allowing exit from the vestibule of persons exiting the establishment, unless so enabled by an employee of the establishment. Elongated, vertically oriented anti-jamming panels are provided in the doorway, which rotate about a vertical axis so that a lateral edge of the panel projects into the doorway and rotates in a direction so as to eject into the vestibule an object or person obstructing the closure of the door.

Claims

1. A security system for controlling the entry and exit of persons from an establishment comprising a substantially enclosed vestibule entry;

at least tow doorways set in the walls of said vestibule, each of said doorways having a door extending from the floor to the ceiling of said vestibule, said doors and walls of said vestibule being made of bullet resistant material;

means for detecting the movement of persons through each of said doorways;

means, responsive to said detection means for selectively controlling the locking of said at least two doors so as to enable a person to pass through or to be detained within said vestibule;

a vertically oriented panel mounted on the edge of the wall abutting the free edge of each of said doors, each of said vertically oriented panels being pivotable about a vertical axis; and

means for acting on each of said panels to cause an object placed in the space between the free edge of the associated door and panel to be pushed away from said space so as to prevent the unwanted obstruction of said doorway and/or the wedging of the door in an undesired open condition.

2. The security system as set forth in claim 1, wherein said means for detecting the exit of persons from the establishment includes one or more items from a group consisting of floor mat switches, infra- red sensors and door position sensors.

3. The security system as set forth in claim 1, further comprising remotely controlled means for the non lethal incapacitation of persons detained therein.

4. The security system as set forth in claim 1, further comprising remotely controlled means for the application of dye to a person in the vestibule, so that the ease of identification of the person by enforcement authorities is enhanced.

5. The security system as set forth in claim 1, further comprising means for detecting the position of said doors;

an auxiliary bullet resistant door disposed so as to close across one of said doorways; and

means for closing said auxiliary door, said closing means being responsive to said means for detecting the positions of said doors.

6. The security system as set forth in claim 1, wherein said remotely controlled means for the non lethal incapacitation of persons includes one or more items from a group consisting of nitrous oxide, mace, tear gas, high volume sound broadcast equipment, and electrically energized vestibule interior portions.