Abstract: An apparatus and method of purchasing a product or service from a site remote to the purchaser using the internet or another electronic medium using cash money. The purchaser first selects the product or service he wants to buy and determines its cash purchase price. The purchase then deposits dollar bills into a receptacle (L) located where the purchaser is located. Each bill is scanned as it is deposited to determine its face value and its serial number. The serial number is compared with a list of dollar bills to determine if the face value of the dollar bill corresponds with that of the listed dollar bill having that serial number. Once a count of the total value of deposited bills is sufficient to purchase the product or service, the seller is notified and the purchase is completed. The bills deposited are defaced or destroyed so they cannot be reused, but an account of the seller is credited with the deposited amount so he can access the funds.

Abstract: An adapter (10) for a light fixture (F) has a socket (16) into which the base of the light bulb (L) is screwed. The adapter has a base (12) sized to be inserted in a socket of the light fixture for attaching the adapter to the light fixture. The adapter further includes a housing (14) in which is installed an audio alarm (20) for a security system. The audio alarm is electrically operated and connected in parallel with the light bulb. Electrical current routed to the adapter through the light fixture simultaneously illuminates the light bulb screwed into the socket of the light holder and the audio alarm.

Abstract: An adapter (10) for a light fixture (F) has a socket (16) into which the base of the light bulb (L) is screwed. The adapter has a base (12) sized to be inserted in a socket of the light fixture for attaching the adapter to the light fixture. The adapter further includes a housing (14) in which is installed an audio alarm (20) for a security system. The audio alarm is electrically operated and connected in parallel with the light bulb. Electrical current routed to the adapter through the light fixture simultaneously illuminates the light bulb screwed into the socket of the light holder and the audio alarm.

Abstract: A dual security system (10) includes one or more motion activated floodlights (12) installed about a premises. Motion sensors (18) are also located about the property. When the system is “armed”, intruder or animal motion sensed by a motion sensor produces a sensor output which causes the floodlights to be turned “on” and illuminate the premises. An audible alarm (14) is wired in parallel with the floodlights so that when the floodlights are turned “on”, a buzzer (20) sounds. Preferably, while the floodlights may remain “on” for an extended period of time, the buzzer alarm is connected to a buzzer time delay (22) which shuts the audible alarm “off” after a predetermined period of time.