Abstract: A sliding latch replaces a prior art door strike plate. The sliding latch has two components, a strike plate and a sliding latch cover reciprocal within the strike plate. A handle protrudes from the sliding latch cover sufficiently to extend beyond a closed door and door frame, to permit the handle to be manually grasped and lifted in a crisis. When the sliding latch cover is thus elevated, it no longer blocks the door bolt, allowing the bolt to extend farther and engage with the strike plate and extend into the door jamb, locking the door. One of the strike plate mounting screw holes is preferably drawn slightly out of the primary plane of the strike plate toward the jamb, and a pair of elevated distally located edges run longitudinally along the strike plate. The drawn screw hole and raised edges guide and limit motion of the sliding latch cover.

Abstract: An inlet to an under-sink garbage disposal is guarded by a novel guard and splash-back baffle that comprises an outer tubular ring defining an exterior circumference approximately sized to coincide with an inside diameter of the plumbing inlet; an inner tubular ring coupled through at least one radially extending bar with the outer ring and defining an open and unobstructed inner circumference. The splash baffle comprises a resilient body affixed adjacent to the garbage disposal blade guard that extends generally across the plumbing inlet to constrict flow therethrough. The guard is divided into a plurality of resilient flaps, and is operative in combination with the garbage disposal blade guard to define a flexible one-way valve permitting matter to pass into a garbage disposal while substantially blocking matter from being ejected from the garbage disposal through the garbage disposal blade guard.