An improved safe is provided which offers the security of currently known more complex safes at substantially less cost. The safe preferably includes a cabinet having apertured door frame structure, with a door having inner, outer and sidewalls. Locking apparatus located within the door includes a s
An improved safe is provided which offers the security of currently known more complex safes at substantially less cost. The safe preferably includes a cabinet having apertured door frame structure, with a door having inner, outer and sidewalls. Locking apparatus located within the door includes a series of selectively operable toggle mechanisms, each having a pair of pivotal links coupled to a locking bolt. The locking bolts are designed to extend through the aligned frame and door apertures to lock the door. The frame structure is formed of interconnected, seamless webs integral with the cabinet walls and presenting a recess to receive the door lip. Additional security is achieved by reinforcing the door lip with flange structure forming a part of the marginal door frame and by attaching the handle to the actuator for the toggle mechanisms so that excess force renders the handle inoperative. Further, forced entry is inhibited by constructing the toggles so that in the locking position, the toggles are over center in a downward direction which causes any force exerted against the bolts to be directed downward against the bottom wall of the door.
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A safe, comprising: a box-like cabinet including a back wall, forwardly extending top, bottom and sidewalls, and a front, including doorway defining frame structure, said frame structure having a pair of upright, laterally spaced, side marginal, elongated tubular frame rails, each of said frame rail
A safe, comprising: a box-like cabinet including a back wall, forwardly extending top, bottom and sidewalls, and a front, including doorway defining frame structure, said frame structure having a pair of upright, laterally spaced, side marginal, elongated tubular frame rails, each of said frame rails comprising: a continuous seamless web member being a continuation of the corresponding cabinet sidewall and configured to present an elongated front panel and an elongated, upright recess along the inboard edge of said front panel, and a rearwardly extending inboard wall portion having a series of vertically spaced, locking bolt-receiving apertures therethrough; a door, hingedly secured to said frame structure and shiftable between an open position and a closed position, said door comprising a body having an inner wall and a facially opposed, spaced apart outer wall presenting a continuous, circumscribing lip configured to be received within said frame rail recess; means for interconnecting said door inner and outer walls, including a top door rail, a bottom door rail, and a pair of upright, laterally spaced, side-marginal, elongated, apertured door side rails, each of said door rails extending between said walls, with said door side rail apertures being vertically spaced and aligned with said frame rail apertures when said door is in said closed position, and each of said door side rails having upright, elongated, laterally spaced apart inboard and outboard webs, each of said door rail outboard webs having an outermost, laterally extending reinforcement flange adjacent the edge thereof proximal to said door outer wall and joined to said lip for reinforcing said lip against tampering; means for locking said door in said closed position, including a plurality of vertically spaced toggle mechanisms situated between said door inner and outer walls, each of said toggles having a pair of pivotally interconnected links with the pivotal axis of each mechanism being substantially transverse to said door inner and outer walls; a locking bolt operatively coupled with each link adjacent the end thereof remote from said pivotal interconnection, said locking bolts being oriented for back-and-forth lateral reciprocation through said aligned door side rail apertures and being of a length to extend through the latter and into said frame apertures for locking of said door; a lock mechanism situated between said door inner wall and said door outer wall, having a locking tongue oriented for outward extension from the lock mechanism when said lock is in locked position and for inward retraction when the lock is in unlocked position; and means for simultaneously operating said toggle mechanisms in order to selectively retract said locking bolts from said frame rail apertures to thereby permit opening of said door, said operating means including an upright, elongated operating bar pivotally interconnected with each of said toggle mechanisms adjacent the point of pivotal interconnection of said links; a handle on the exterior face of said door outer wall; an actuator slotted at one end thereof for raising and lowering said operating bar, said actuator having a notch at the end thereof remote from said slot for engaging said locking tongue when said lock mechanism is in said locked position, said actuator being attached to said operating bar by fastener means extending through and slidable along the length of said slot; a shaft extending through said door outer wall and fixedly coupling said handle and said actuator whereby rotation of said handle produces corresponding rotation of said actuator and vertical movement of said operating bar, said locking means being configured such that when said locking tongue is received by said actuator notch, said operating bar will be in its fully lowered position with the bottommost end thereof engaging said bottom door rail, said locking bolts will extend through said aligned door side rail apertures and into said frame rail inboard wall portion apertures, and said toggle mechanisms will be over center in a downward direction.
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