Securing system with housing for hardware

• US 8,186,088 B2
• Filed: 08/07/2009
• Issued: 05/29/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/11/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hugh Victor
• Original Assignee: Hugh Victor
• Inventors: Victor, Hugh, Carolin, Steven Lawrence
• Primary Examiner(s): Carone, Michael
• Assistant Examiner(s): Troy, Daniel
• Application Number:
  US12/537,590
• Publication Number:
  US 20100154271A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,026 Days
• Field of Search: 42/700.7, 42/701.1, 42/700.6, 211/64, 70/58, 701/58, 701/63, 701/66, 701/70, 70/77
• 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 trigger operated article securing device comprising:

a locking mechanism including;

a male portion including;

a projecting member and

a lock device,

a female member into which the projecting member is inserted, and

one or more pads;

a securing structure including;

a first wall portion that attaches to a surface, the first wall portion including;

a post, the post including a recess; and

a second wall portion separable from the first wall portion and adapted to be slidingly engaged with the first wall portion in a tongue and groove configuration;

the second wall portion including an opening for receiving the projecting member of the male portion of the locking mechanism, wherein the second wall portion is disposed between the male portion and a female portion of the locking mechanism;

wherein a trigger operated article is lockingly secured by blocking depression of a trigger of the trigger operated article with the projecting member while the trigger operated article is positioned between the second wall portion and one of the male portion or female portion of the locking mechanism and wherein the post including the recess receives, in a generally mating relationship, one of the male portion or the female portion of the locking mechanism.

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 first wall portion is attached to a surface with fasteners that are concealed by the first wall portion, the second wall portion, or both when the first and second wall portions are engaged with each other.

4. The securing device according to claim 3, wherein the surface is selected from one or more of a wall, a floor, a ceiling, a horizontal work surface, a door, a decorative trim panel, a piece of furniture, a storage container, a countertop, a drawer, a stud, a vehicle body in white, a vehicle trim, a vehicle frame, or any combination thereof.

5. The securing device according to claim 4, wherein upon assembly, one of the male portion or the female portion of the locking mechanism is 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.

7. The securing device according to claim 6, wherein the outer surface is substantially planar at the joint between the first wall portion and the second wall portion.

8. The securing device according to claim 6, wherein the device includes a two piece separable sensor that communicates a signal when separated.

9. The securing device according to claim 1, wherein the device includes a two piece separable sensor that communicates a signal when separated.

10. The securing device according to claim 1, wherein the first wall and the second wall include a tether so that the first wall and the second wall are connected relative to each other.

11. The securing device according to claim 1, wherein the lock device is a keyed lock, a combination lock, an electronically controlled lock, an actuatable member, a touch screen, a key pad, a bar code, a visual scan, active or passive radiofrequency identification device, a biometric scan, or a combination thereof.

12. The securing device according to claim 1, wherein upon assembly, the female portion of the locking mechanism is enclosed and concealed from view by the securing structure.

13. The securing device according to claim 12, wherein the female portion includes a hollow stem and the hollow stem is inserted into the recess of the post so that the hollow stem of the female portion is aligned with an opening in the second wall portion when the second wall portion is placed in the first wall portion,

wherein the projection of the male portion passes through the trigger operated article and the opening in the second wall portion into the hollow stem of the female portion locking the trigger operated article so that the female portion of the locking mechanism is enclosed and concealed from view by the securing structure.

14. The securing device according to claim 1, wherein the female portion includes a stem.

15. The securing device according to claim 1, wherein the female portion includes a stem and the stem is inserted into the recess of the post so that the stem of the female portion is aligned with an opening in the second wall portion.

16. The securing device according to claim 15, wherein the device includes a two piece separable sensor that communicates a signal when separated.

17. The securing device according to claim 16, wherein the first wall and the second wall include a tether so that the first wall and the second wall are connected relative to each other.

18. The securing device according to claim 1, wherein the trigger operated article is a firearm.

19. The securing device according to claim 1, wherein the trigger operated article includes saws, drills, mills, nail guns, staple guns, kitchen utensils, pesticide dispensers, paint or other surface coating sprayers, powered surgical instruments, other fluid dispensers, or a combination thereof.