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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
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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.

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