Automated security chambers for queues

• US 6,484,650 B1
• Filed: 12/06/2001
• Issued: 11/26/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 12/06/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Gerald D. Stomski
• Original Assignee: Gerald D. Stomski
• Inventors: Stomski, Gerald D.
• Primary Examiner(s): BARRETT, SUZANNE LALE DINO
• Application Number:
  US09/683,272
• Time in Patent Office: 355 Days
• Field of Search: 109/15, 109/2, 109/3, 109/6-11, 109/21, 109/67, 109/68
• US Class Current: 109/6
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 2017/005 for sliding wings
• CPC Class Codes: E05G 5/003 Entrance control E05G5/02 takes precedence
• 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 system having a series of adjacent bullet-proof transparent chambers for successive passage of persons in a queue. A door interlock system controls passage of individuals along with intermittent movement of a conveyor for inspecting hand-carried articles. The system includes manual and automatic controls for detaining a suspected individual and unlocking doors to allow release of other individuals in the chambers. A matrix of such chambers is shown, which handles security check-in for several queues of airline passengers.

Claims

1. A security system for monitoring and protecting personnel in an area including at least one queue of successively arriving individuals, comprising:

a plurality of at least three contiguous chambers, including an entry chamber, an exit chamber and at least one intermediate chamber,

said chambers each having bullet-proof transparent walls and bullet-proof doors, said doors including;

an entry door to the entry chamber, an exit door from the exit chamber, a common door between each intermediate chamber and a said contiguous chamber, said doors having remotely controlled locks, and each chamber further including an outer access door to each said chamber, said outer access door having a lock permitting access only from outside the chamber,

means for monitoring a selected individual in a selected chamber, and

an automated door interlock system arranged and adapted to remotely unlock selected locks to pass individuals successively through said chambers, and to lock selected locks to detain selected individuals during monitoring.

2. The security system according to claim 1, wherein the automated door interlock system includes a security override control arranged to unlock all doors except those detaining an individual, when a monitoring means indicates a danger to personnel from the detained individual.

3. The security system to claim 1, wherein the automated door interlock system includes a security override control arranged to unlock all doors except those detaining an individual when the security override control is manually actuated.

4. The security system according to claim 1, including motor means adapted to open selected doors when they are unlocked and to close said selected doors when said monitoring means indicates presence of an individual in a selected chamber.

5. The security system according to claim 1, and further including a conveyor disposed alongside said chambers, and wherein said door interlock system is arranged to advance the conveyor by one chamber when said selected locks are unlocked to pass individuals from one chamber to the next.

6. The security system according to claim 1, wherein said monitoring means includes at least a personal identification entry device, a metal detector, and a physical presence sensor.

7. A security system for monitoring and protecting personnel in an area including at least one queue of successively arriving individuals, comprising:

a plurality of at least three contiguous chambers, including an entry chamber, an exit chamber and at least one intermediate chamber, wherein said chambers are arranged in a matrix of at least two parallel lines of chambers so as to receive at least two parallel queues of successively arriving individuals,

said chambers each having bullet-proof transparent walls and bullet-proof doors, said doors including;

an entry door to the entry chamber, an exit door from the exit chamber, a common door between each intermediate chamber and a said contiguous chamber, said doors having remotely controlled locks,

means for monitoring a selected individual in a selected chamber, and

an automated door interlock system arranged and adapted to remotely unlock selected locks to pass individuals successively through said chambers, and to lock selected locks to detain selected individuals during monitoring.

8. The security system according to claim 7, wherein the automated door interlock system includes a security override control arranged to unlock all doors except those detaining an individual, when a monitoring means indicates a danger to personnel from the detained individual.

9. The security system according to claim 7, wherein the automated door interlock system includes a security override control arranged to unlock all doors except those detaining an individual when the security override control is manually actuated.

10. The security system according to claim 7, including motor means adapted to open selected doors when they are unlocked and to close said selected doors when said monitoring means indicates presence of an individual in a selected chamber.

11. The security system according to claim 7, and further including a conveyor disposed alongside said chambers, and wherein said door interlock system is arranged to advance the conveyor by one chamber when said selected locks are unlocked to pass individuals from one chamber to the next.

12. The security system according to claim 7, wherein said monitoring means includes at least a personal identification entry device, a metal detector, and a physical presence sensor.

13. A security system for monitoring and protecting personnel in an area including at least one queue of successively arriving individuals, comprising:

a plurality of at least three contiguous chambers, including an entry chamber, an exit chamber and at least one intermediate chamber, and wherein a security and surveillance chamber extends alongside said contiguous chambers, each said contiguous chamber having an outer access door opening into said security and surveillance chamber, said outer access doors having locks permitting access only from the security and surveillance chamber,

said chambers each having bullet-proof transparent walls and bullet-proof doors, said doors including;

an entry door to the entry chamber, an exit door from the exit chamber, a common door between each intermediate chamber and a said contiguous chamber, said doors having remotely controlled locks,

means for monitoring a selected individual in a selected chamber, and

an automated door interlock system arranged and adapted to remotely unlock selected locks to pass individuals successively through said chambers, and to lock selected locks to detain selected individuals during monitoring.

14. The security system according to claim 13 and further including a conveyor extending through the security and surveillance chamber and visible from said contiguous chambers.

15. The security system according to claim 13, wherein the automated door interlock system includes a security override control arranged to unlock all doors except those detaining an individual, when a monitoring means indicates a danger to personnel from the detained individual.

16. The security system according to claim 13, wherein the automated door interlock system includes a security override control arranged to unlock all doors except those detaining an individual when the security override control is manually actuated.

17. The security system according to claim 13, including motor means adapted to open selected doors when they are unlocked and to close said selected doors when said monitoring means indicates presence of an individual in a selected chamber.

18. The security system according to claim 13, and further including a conveyor disposed alongside said chambers, and wherein said door interlock system is arranged to advance the conveyor by one chamber when said selected locks are unlocked to pass individuals from one chamber to the next.

19. The security system according to claim 13, wherein said monitoring means includes at least a personal identification entry device, a metal detector, and a physical presence sensor.