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A key safe having a shackle to secure the key safe to a door knob or the like and a first locking means associated with the shackle to allow installation and removal of the key safe. The key safe has an interior chamber accessed through a removable cover secured by a second locking means independent

A key safe having a shackle to secure the key safe to a door knob or the like and a first locking means associated with the shackle to allow installation and removal of the key safe. The key safe has an interior chamber accessed through a removable cover secured by a second locking means independent of the first locking means. Thus the owner or occupant of a premises can provide limited access to the premises for a real estate agent or other authorized person by installing the key safe on the exterior of a door to the premises with a key to the premises contained therein.

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An article or key safe comprising in combination: a housing, said housing having an open top, side walls, a rear wall, a bottom wall, and a front wall with an opening therein, a cap closing said open top, said walls and said cap defining an interior chamber, a shackle having a pair of spaced-apart l

An article or key safe comprising in combination: a housing, said housing having an open top, side walls, a rear wall, a bottom wall, and a front wall with an opening therein, a cap closing said open top, said walls and said cap defining an interior chamber, a shackle having a pair of spaced-apart legs slidably disposed through yet retained by said cap, first locking means operatively associated with latch means carried within said cap to engage said shackle, whereby said shackle can move from a first locked position which secures said key safe to a door handle or the like, to a second open position allowing removal of said key safe, a removable cover closing said opening in said front wall, whereby removing said cover allows access to said interior chamber and its contents, second locking means operatively associated with said cover which in a first operative position secures said cover in a locked relationship with said front wall completely covering said opening, and in a second inoperative position allows the removal of said cover from said opening revealing said interior chamber wherein said cover has a rabbetted upper edge which engages a complimentary configured edge on an upper lip of said opening in said front wall such that the outer surface of said cover is flush with the outer surface of said front wall when said cover is in a locked position, a transversely disposed web member extending inwardly from a bottom portion of said cover, an end of said web member being in close proximity to said rear wall and spring biased outwardly therefrom, said web member having an upwardly disposed trough therein with a spring clip to retain small objects such as keys within said trough, a vertical passage through said web member between said trough and a back surface of said cover, said passage slidably retains a downwardly biased, substantially L-shaped cover latch with a beveled edge on a bottom surface thereof which coacts with a similar bevel on an inner face of a bottom lip of said opening in said front wall, whereby when said beveled latch surface is in contact with said beveled lip surface said cover is in locked relationship with and completely covers said opening in said front wall, preventing access to said interior chamber, an arcuate cam surface on the bottom of said cover latch which when ramped upwardly disengages said beveled edge on said cover latch from said beveled face on said inner lip of said opening, whereby said cover pops open due to said spring disposed on said end of said web member.