Abstract: A system for and method of verifying a configuration of an artifact, such as a gun, a phone, or other artifact, is provided. The system includes a plurality of unique verification mechanisms, each verification mechanism including a unique identifier for distinguishing the verification mechanism from each of the other verification mechanisms. The method includes engaging a verification mechanism with the artifact and/or with an object and/or device associated with the artifact so as to move the artifact to a verifiable configuration while simultaneously moving the verification mechanism to a verifying configuration. The method further includes scanning the verification mechanism to create a first verification record, thereby providing evidence of such configurations.

Abstract: A safety apparatus for an electrical equipment rack includes a retractable safety device for preventing, when in an operational position, the extending of an extendable rail and an electrical equipment unit mounted thereon from a position internal to the rack to a position external to the rack, and for allowing the same when in a non-operational position. The position of the retractable safety device is linked to the position of a retractable rack support such that when the retractable rack support is lowered in its operative position the retractable safety device is in a non-operational position, and when it is raised in a raised inoperative position the retractable safety device is in an operational position preventing the extending of the extendable rail and an electrical equipment unit mounted thereon to a position external to the rack.

Abstract: An earthquake-activated shelf security system has two guide rails attached to both sides of a shelf or pallet rack. At least one retainer is moveably constrained to move along the guide rails by a rotating loop located on each end of the retainer. The guide rail has a retainer rest portion and allows the retainer to rest in a prepared configuration without moving down the rail unless acted upon by a shaking event such as an earthquake. A movable backstop is located along a back portion of the retainer rest portion. The position of the rest stop can be adjusted to adjust the sensitivity of the system to earthquakes. The guide rails have retainer stops located at selected positions to keep the retainer from moving past. In one embodiment two retainers are provided and in another embodiment, a mesh is provided to contain items that would otherwise fall through.

Abstract: A security seal for a latch and hasp closure or a similar closure including a flexible, elongated strap seal having an elongated opening therein for receiving a hasp. The seal further includes a locking post and a corresponding socket provided with one or more locking means for engaging the locking post so that the locking post cannot be removed without damaging the seal. The seal is also provided with an identification flag that is in a fixed positioned relative to the opening of the strap so that information displayed on the flag can be easily read or scanned without having to manipulate the seal.

Abstract: A security seal for a latch and hasp closure or a similar closure including a flexible, elongated strap seal having an elongated opening therein for receiving a hasp. The seal further includes a locking post and a corresponding socket provided with one or more locking means for engaging the locking post so that the locking post cannot be removed without damaging the seal. The seal is also provided with an identification flag that is in a fixed positioned relative to the opening of the strap so that information displayed on the flag can be easily read or scanned without having to manipulate the seal.

Abstract: A single-use security bar seal assembly for containers, comprising an elongated bar member having first and second ends, a support assembly, and a receiving bracket. The receiving bracket, support assembly, and bar member have transparent plastic covers. The single-use security bar seal assembly has bar-codes on all individual parts and electrical means for determining severance of the elongated bar member.

Abstract: The invention concerns a tamper-evident padlock and padlock combination. The padlock (10) has a moulded plastics lock body (14) which includes an open-ended passage (22) and an opening (26) spaced from the passage. There is also a hasp (16) which has first and second spaced apart legs (32, 34). An end (32.1) of the first leg can be located in the passage through a first end thereof while the end of the second leg can be located simultaneously in the opening. The end of the first leg in the passage can then be engaged by a breakable seal (20) which is inserted into the passage through the opposite end of the passage, in order to lock the hasp relative to the lock body. The padlock combination (12) comprises the padlock (10) and the seal (20) in combination.

Abstract: A single-use security bar seal assembly for shipping containers, comprising an elongated bar member having first and second ends, a support assembly, and a receiving bracket. The single-use security bar seal assembly has matching identification codes on all individual parts and electrical means for determining severance of the elongated bar member.

Abstract: A protective enclosure according to one embodiment of the disclosures herein includes a hollow body and a lock capturing member attached tot he hollow body. The hollow body includes spaced apart side walls, a front wall attached between the spaced apart side walls and a first handle-engaging member at least partially defining a rear wall. The first handle-engaging member extends from a top end of the hollow body toward a bottom end of the hollow body. The first handle-engaging member is offset from a rear edge of each one of the side walls wherein a handle-receiving channel is defined between the side walls and the first handle-engaging member. The lock-capturing member is attached to the hollow body and includes a shank-receiving aperture for receiving a shank of a lock therethrough. The shank-receiving aperture is positioned within the hollow body.

Abstract: A seal for a container. The seal is banana-shaped and is inserted over a container handle to make it impossible to move the handle without breaking the seal.

Abstract: A steel plate hasp is permanently fixedly attached to a door keeper bar, the bar for rotating about its longitudinal axis between door closed and open states. A casing has a plurality of walls forming a housing cavity in which the hasp is received through an opening in a housing wall with bolt seal shank apertures aligned in the hasp and housing. The casing may be permanently secured to the door by bolts or welds or may be selectively attached and removed from the hasp in a locked and unlocked state without fixed attachment to the door. A bolt seal has a shank with a head at one end wherein the head engages a housing wall and a locking body engages and locks to the shank other end and to a further housing wall. The shank between the head and lock body is fully enclosed by the housing and door to preclude access to the shank by tampering tools. The casing when secured to the hasp cooperates with the door to prevent the keeper bar from rotating open.

Abstract: A lower steel plate casing has a housing attached to a back plate secured to a door and defines an enclosed chamber defining a channel portion through which a portion of an operating handle of a swing door keeper bar passes. An upper steel plate casing has a housing and is pivoted to the back plate. The upper casing housing defines a further enclosed chamber having a further channel portion through which a portion of the handle passes in cooperation with the lower casing channel portion in a housing locking position. A bolt seal has a head fixed to a shank and a lock body releaseably attached to the shank for locking the two housings together. The shank is laterally protected by the enclosed chambers and axially protected by the head at one shank end and the lock body at the other shank end and by various housing plates having apertures in which the head, lock body and the bolt shank are received.

Abstract: An anti-snooping device for doors to apartments comprising a locking mechanism and a relatively low-strength, "tamperproof" seal capable of engaging the locking mechanism, the locking mechanism being capable of disengagement without, however, compromising the "tamperproof" seal. The invention's preferred embodiment is a chain door lock in which one of the chain's links has been replaced by a coded, colored, plastic, "tamperproof" seal. To enter the apartment, the apartment dweller uses, first, her door key and then, second, the key to or, alternately, the combination of, the anti-snooping device. Entry by anyone else must be effected by breaking the "tamperproof" seal or by breaking or successfully picking the anti-snooping device's lock.

Abstract: A handle operated, toggle type draw latch assembly is mountable on one of two members and is operable to selectively engage and disengage a latch-engageable formation connected to the other of the two members. The latch assembly includes a complexly configured operating handle that is pivotally connected near one end to a mounting base for movement relative to the base between closed and open positions, that provides a hand grip near its opposite end, and that, at locations between its opposite ends pivotally mounts a drawbar for movement between extended and retracted positions, and defines not only a pair of stops but also a catch-engageable formation. One stop engages the base when the handle is closed. The other stop engages the drawbar when the drawbar is retracted. When the handle is open, the drawbar can be pivoted into and out of extended positions for selectively embracing the latch-engageable formation.

Abstract: A permanent locking device for a nuclear waste container which, in combination with a lid and a box, utilizes a dee-shaped ring held by a wide, flat hinge and a protruding narrow malleable metal retaining strap. The ring can rotate or slide up and down within the hinge, as well as slide side to side. The hinge has a slot in its top for temporarily holding the ring in an up position while the lid is open and the box is being loaded with nuclear waste. When the lid is closed and the ring is disengaged from the slot, the ring can be quickly dropped to a down position permitting the retaining strap to extend through the ring. The retaining strap can then be readily bent down and over the circular (bottom) portion of the ring, to form a permanent seal. A deformable rubber gasket is positioned between the lid and the top edges of the box to form an air tight seal.

Abstract: Single piece injection molded security seal includes a flexible strap having fastener support bodies at each end defining a telescoping locking means and having a camming surface for cooperating with the hasp to hold the security seal in descrete positions.

Abstract: A guard for protecting the shackle of a padlock used for locking a locking device in the engaged position comprises a U-shaped member having plate limbs, the shackle being received in the space between the limbs to be protected by the limbs against cutting by means of a tool such as a saw, a file or a bolt clipper.

Abstract: A transparent seal and a pneumatic power system for automatically affixing the seal onto a staple included in a hasp utilized to lock a coin collecting box used in coin activated vending apparatus for impeding unauthorized entry into the box via the hasp to pilfer coins therefrom comprising the seal formed with an aperture in a first plane and a hole in a second plane normal to the first plane and a plunger initially disposed in the hole in a first position or nonlocking state in which both the inner and outer ends of the plunger are located on the same side of the aperture and staple, and an automatic pneumatic power system for disposing the aperture onto the free end of the staple to register the aperture and open space of the staple end with the hole and thereafter for moving the plunger from its first position into a second position or locking state in the hole in which latter position the plunger projects through the registered aperture, open end of the staple and hole to locate the inner end of the plun

Abstract: A re-usable envelope having a zip closure which can be locked closed by a sealing device. The sealing device is of plastics material, one part being mounted to the envelope and the other part being engageable therewith, the sealing device only being operable by breaking said other part. The zip tag includes a part for manual engagement to facilitate closing of the sealing device.

Abstract: A locked enclosure may be eventually automatically unlocked by a simple pin element in a hasp-lock which drops out of the hasp-lock in case of temperatures associated with a fire.