Rotating cockpit door

• US 6,601,797 B2
• Filed: 07/31/2002
• Issued: 08/05/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 10/26/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: David Sheremeta
• Original Assignee: David Sheremeta
• Inventors: Sheremeta, David
• Primary Examiner(s): Jordan, Charles T.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Holzen, Stephen
• Application Number:
  US10/209,990
• Publication Number:
  US 20020175245A1
• Time in Patent Office: 370 Days
• Field of Search: 244/129.4, 244/129.5, 244/118.5, 244/118.6
• US Class Current: 244/118.5
• CPC Class Codes: B64C 1/1469 Doors between cockpit and cabin
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 45/0028 doors or door arrangements specially adapted to restrict unauthorized access

Abstract

A security apparatus comprises in combination, an aircraft having a flight deck, a passenger cabin, and a revolving door assembly for moving from one to the other within the aircraft. The door assembly includes a fixed outer cylindrical wall and a movable inner cylindrical wall, the later mounted for rotation within the outer cylindrical wall. The outer wall provides a pair of outer door portals or doorways in opposing positions, one common to the flight deck, the other common to the passenger cabin. The inner wall provides a singular door portal which may be aligned with either one of the pair of outer door portals depending on the rotational position of the inner wall. Locks are positioned on the outer wall to disable rotation of the inner wall in either passage positions as well as a neutral position for detaining a dangerous person within the revolving door assembly.

Claims

1. A security apparatus comprising in combination:

an aircraft interior structure including a bulkhead separating a flight deck from a passenger cabin; and

a revolving door assembly;

the revolving door assembly mounted in the bulkhead;

the revolving door assembly including a fixed outer cylindrical wail and a rotatable inner cylindrical wall, the inner cylindrical wall rotatably mounted on a means for door rotation within the outer cylindrical wall;

the outer cylindrical wall providing a pair of outer door portals in opposing spaced-apart positions;

the inner cylindrical wall providing a single inner door portal alignable with each of the pair of outer door portals of the outer cylindrical wall upon rotation of the inner cylindrical wall;

the inner cylindrical wall providing four bolt receivers positioned in an outer surface of the inner cylindrical wall, the bolt receivers evenly spaced at 90 angular degree intervals;

the outer cylindrical wall providing dual bolts spaced at 90 angular degrees and alignable with any two adjacent of the bolt receivers of the inner cylindrical wall;

the dual bolts both positioned in common with the flight deck;

the bolts and the bolt receivers positioned for engaging both of the dual bolts into two adjacent of the bolt receivers when the inner door portal is aligned with either one of the outer door portals or with none of the outer door portals.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the outer and inner cylindrical walls are made of a structural material.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the outer and inner door portals are of a size for receiving an adult in passing therethrough.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein one of the outer door portals is positioned in common with the flight deck, and the other one of the outer door portals is positioned in common with the passenger cabin.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the door rotation means is one of wheels and bearings.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein, the inner cylindrical wall is mounted for rotation within a track.