Open window security lock

• US 6,778,086 B2
• Filed: 05/02/2002
• Issued: 08/17/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 05/02/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Gerald Angelo Morrone, Louis Samuel Tedesco
• Original Assignee: Gerald Angelo Morrone, Louis Samuel Tedesco
• Inventors: Tedesco, Louis Samuel, Morrone, Gerald Angelo
• Primary Examiner(s): GOINS, DAVETTA WOODS
• Application Number:
  US10/136,623
• Publication Number:
  US 20030206103A1
• Time in Patent Office: 838 Days
• Field of Search: 340/546, 340/545.1, 340/547, 340/541, 340/545.7, 340/545.6, 340/686.1, 340/545.8, 340/545.9, 340/550, 200/61.73, 200/61.93, 200/61.71, 200/61.76, 200/61.81, 116/67.R, 116/77, 116/75, 116/86
• US Class Current: 340/546
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 45/06 Electric alarm locks E05B45/005 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 65/0888 Locking bars

Abstract

An open window security lock consisting of a staff having a suction cup for attachment of the staff to the window which allows a sliding window sash to open a small amount for ventilation but not opening enough to admit an intruder. The staff upper end has a switch to sound an alarm if the upper end is moved away from touching the fixed upper frame. An alarm switch can be a displacement detector, motion detector or vibration detector. The staff length is adjustable. A length clamping can be a detent button, staff wall set screw, metal collar with a set screw, hose clamp, or an eccentrically pinned lever. The alarm may include wireless transmitter communicating with a wireless receiver.

Claims

1. A portable device for locking a double hung sliding window comprising a staff serving as a compression column and said device comprising a suction cup as fastening means mounted on said staff to position said staff between a lower moveable frame sash portion of a sliding window and a second upper frame portion of the double hung sliding window whereby said staff acting as a compression column can be mounted in proximity to the glass of a sliding glass window to intercept the lower moveable frame sash and lock the lower moveable frame sash portion to a fixed small limited opening position and said portable device comprising at the top end an electric switch which is held electrically open by resting against the top of the fixed immobile window frame such that lowering the upper window moveable frame sash allows said electric switch to close electrically thereby sounding an alarm associated with said electric switch.

2. The portable device of claim 1 wherein said staff is of adjustable length, such as to enable said sliding glass window to be completely locked closed and said staff may lock said sliding glass window in partially open positions of such positions as may be selected in use.

3. The device according to claim 1 in which said means for activating said alarm comprises a motion sensing electric switch.

4. The device according to claim 1 in which said means for activating said alarm comprises a vibration sensing electric switch.

5. The device according to claim 2 having clamping means to fix the length of said staff wherein the length clamping means is a spring loaded detent button positioned as a shear pin from one portion of said staff into a shear pin hole in the second portion of said adjustable length staff.

6. The device according to claim 2 having clamping means to fix the length of said staff wherein the adjustable length clamping means is a metal collar with a set screw.

7. The device according to claim 2 having clamping means to fix the length of said staff wherein the length clamping means comprises a set screw threaded into one member of said staff.

8. The device according to claim 2 having clamping means to fix the length of said staff wherein the length clamping means is a metal band hose type clamp.

9. The device according to claim 2 having clamping means to fix the length of said staff wherein the length clamping means comprises an eccentrically pinned lever with a rocker curved burr that digs into the moveable introduced portion of the staff member to thereby lock the assembly to a fixed overall staff length.

10. The total device identified in claim 1 with wireless transmitter means and in location separate therefrom having a wireless signal receiver means such that said wireless transmitter means communicates with said wireless signal receiver means.