Securing system with housing for hardware

• US 7,584,566 B2
• Filed: 08/09/2007
• Issued: 09/08/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/11/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hugh Victor
• Original Assignee: Hugh Victor
• Inventors: Carolin, Steven Lawrence, Victor, Hugh
• Primary Examiner(s): Johnson; Stephen M
• Assistant Examiner(s): Troy; Daniel J
• Application Number:
  US11/836,442
• Publication Number:
  US 20080034635A1
• Time in Patent Office: 761 Days
• Field of Search: 42/700.7, 42/701.1, 42/700.6
• US Class Current: 42/70.07
• CPC Class Codes: F41A 17/02 Key-operated safeties F41A17/44 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F41A 17/063 comprising a transponder
• CPC Class Codes: F41A 17/066 having means for recognizing biometric parameters, e.g. voice control, finger print or palm print control
• CPC Class Codes: F41A 17/54 Protecting-caps for trigger guards; Trigger locking pieces mounted on, or within, the trigger guard
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/5009 For portable articles

Abstract

A securing system that includes a first wall portion adapted to be attached to a surface; and a second wall portion separable from the first wall portion and adapted to be removable engaged with the first wall portion; the second wall portion including an opening for receiving a projecting member from a male portion of a locking mechanism, wherein the second wall portion is disposed between the male portion and the female portion of the locking mechanism.

Claims

1. A gun securing device comprising:

a first wall portion that is attached to a surface wherein the first wall portion is attached to a support structure or removably attached to the support structure by fasteners that penetrate apertures in the first wall portion; and

a second wall portion separable from the first wall portion and that slidingly engages with the first wall portion by way of a complementary tongue and groove structure defined in the first and second wall portions to define an enclosure that conceals each of the fasteners used to attach the first wall portion to the support structure;

a locking mechanism that is removable from the first and second wall portions, the locking mechanism including a male portion that blocks a trigger of a gun secured therein and is separable from a female portion, wherein the second wall portion include an opening for receiving a projecting member from the male portion of the locking mechanism, and wherein the second wail portion is disposed between the male portion and a female portion of the locking mechanism, and one of the male portion or the female portion is removably contained within the enclosure.

2. The securing device according to claim 1, wherein the second wall portion is contoured.

3. The securing device according to claim 1, wherein the second wall portion has a substantially constant profile along its length.

4. The securing device according to claim 1, wherein the first wall portion and the second portion include a flush fit outer surface at a joint between the two.

5. The securing device according to claim 1, wherein upon assembly, one of the male portion or the female portion of the locking mechanism is concealed from view, and further wherein upon attachment of the device to a surface, any fasteners for attaching to the surface are concealed from view.

6. The securing device according to claim 5, wherein the first wall portion and the second portion include a flush fit outer surface at a joint between the two, and further wherein the outer surface is substantially planar at the joint, and the groove includes an undercut groove.

7. The securing device of claim 6, wherein the first wall portion includes a recess defined therein for receiving a stem on the female portion of the locking mechanism.

8. A gun securing device comprising:

a first portion including a base wall that is attached with fasteners to a support structure, and an opposing side wall structure; and

a second portion that is separable from the first portion and that slidingly engages with the first portion by way of a complementary tongue and undercut groove structure defined by the opposing side wall structure of the first portion and the second portion;

a locking mechanism removable from the first portion and the second portion, and including a male portion having a projecting member, which blocks a trigger of a gun secured therein, and being separable from a female portion that includes a hollow stem that receives the projecting member;

wherein the first portion includes a post, having a recess, defined in the base wall of the first portion, which receives the hollow stem on the female portion of the locking mechanism;

wherein the second portion includes an opening, which is smaller than the largest width of the female portion, which is generally aligned with the recess of the post, and through which the projecting member from the male portion of the locking mechanism passes so that the second wall portion is disposed between the male portion and the female portion of the locking mechanism when assembled;

wherein upon assembly, the female portion of the locking mechanism is enclosed and concealed from view by the second portion;

wherein upon attachment of the device to the support structure, any fasteners for attaching to the surface are concealed from view by the second portion; and

further wherein the first portion and the second portion include a flush fit outer surface at a joint between the two portions, and the outer surface is substantially planar at the joint.

9. The securing device according to claim 8, wherein at least one of the first wall portion or the second wall portion comprises a sensor.