Abstract: A glazed façade anchoring system to a building including a box with a connection system to the façade and connection to the building slab. The first and second connections enable relative movement between one another, when the façade moves within the gap between the rear surface of the façade and the building slab edge under the high pressure loads due to exceptional events such as explosions. The device includes one or more solid elements with dissipative components acting in compression in the inward building direction and one or more solid elements with dissipative components acting in compression in the outward building direction.

Abstract: An explosive threat mitigation unit (TMU) stands ready to receive a suspected bomb, enclose it, and contain the explosion if one occurs. An operator protects bystanders and surroundings by putting the suspected bomb in a TMU and then closing the TMU. If the bomb goes off, the TMU mitigates the effects of both the blast and the fragments. One variation has a container, a tube, a cap, and a door. The container includes an opening. The tube, arranged in the container, aligns with the opening. The cap slides through the opening and over the tube. The door slides into place to close the opening and enclose the cap within the container.

Abstract: A spring-driven guided check valve which eliminates fluttering of the disc as it moves between the open and closed position against a seat. A disc has an integrated guide which slides against a sleeve inside the body of the valve. This configuration only allows linear movement of the seat in a direction towards (and away) from an inlet face without changing the orientation of the disc. The disc is held in a constant orientation and thus cannot shift at an inclined attitude (flutter). Thus, once the valve closes and the disc makes contact with the seat, the entire disc would contact the entire seat at the same point in time because of the parallel orientation of the disc to the contacting surface of the seat.

Abstract: A banking equipment intra-cassette security device (1) being assembled under the lid (T) of a cassette (C) storing money bills (A). The device (1) includes a main block (2) equipped with cavities (3) filled with pyrotechnical material (5), which can be ignited by a wick (9) which is activated by a metallic filament (11) electrically powered by the cassette (C) circuit.

Abstract: A secure enclosure for resisting attacks using explosives. The secure enclosure has a body defining an opening and a door leaf hingeably coupled to the body for securely closing the opening. The body and door leaf define a cavity in which valuable items may be stored. The secure enclosure also defines a plurality of frangible portions. Each frangible portion comprises a weakened perimeter so that the frangible portions are ejected by the rapid build-up of pressure when an explosion occurs within the secure enclosure, thereby reducing the pressure within the secure enclosure and preserving the integrity of the body and door.

Abstract: There is described a profiled sash section for a window sash holding a window pane and intended for being installed in an outer frame of a blast resistant window. The sash section includes a main member enabling inter-engagement between the profiled sash member and the outer frame a window pane holding member for accommodating and securing an end portion of said window pane in the profiled sash member, and a reinforcing member designed to support the end portion of the window pane and to transmit blast pressure, if incidentally applied to the window pane, to the main member. For at least partially absorbing blast pressure energy applied to the window pane, the sash section is provided with damping means for deforming up to predetermined limit. Also described is a blast-resistant framework for a casement window, including the window sash assembled from the mentioned profiled sash sections and adapted for rigidly and air-tightly securing the window pane in the holders of the profiled sash members.

Abstract: A reactive armor structure having an outer layer and a reactive element adjacent to and integral with the outer layer is provided. The reactive element provides an amount of support to the outer layer effective to restrain movement of the outer layer and to delay fracture of the outer layer when the outer layer is impacted by a projectile.

Abstract: This structure relates to storage devices and in particular to lockers in particular for luggage such as those to be found at airports and railway stations. The lockers of the present device comprise a door, preferably with no moving parts, which, when the locker is not in use, is permanently biased open and thus in an unlocked position. When the locker is in use the door can be secured merely by shutting the door of the locker. A number of lockers of the present invention can be incorporated into columns of lockers under the control of a central control unit which dispenses appropriate receipts and tickets in exchange for money.

Abstract: A cover for use with a container (1) comprises one or more layers (11, 12, 15) of high tensile strength, high stretch resistance flexible material which are capable of resisting penetration by bomb blast and fragmentation and which are adapted so that the cover can expand and absorb and/or channel the blast from within the container (1). For this purpose, the layers of flexible material are interconnected by hook-and-eye type fabric fasteners, which can give or release under load to allow controlled expansion of the cover in the event of an explosion. The container may be the type used to carry cargo or luggage on an aircraft and placing the cover (11, 12, 15) about the container a bomb secreted in the luggage or cargo will be prevented from destroying the aircraft.

Abstract: A relocatable storage magazine is provided for containing the shockwave, flagration and flying debris of an accidental explosion of stored explosives, ordnance or the like and includes a container; a debris trap attached to the container for receiving the pressure wave and for containing flying debris; an access hole communicating with the container and with the debris trap for venting the pressure wave of an explosion from the container into the debris trap and for providing access to the container; a lid cover and storage tray for storing and retrieving explosives; vent holes in the debris trap for venting the pressure wave to the atmosphere; a sliding door for providing access to the storage magazine; ears for lifting and relocating the storage magazine; hooks for retaining the lid cover and storage tray in an accessible position.

Abstract: A blast resistant composite section comprises a base section (1), an intermediate section (2), and a solid, bombardment-inhibiting cover section (3). On a side toward the intermediate section (2) the cover section (3) is provided with depressions which form in each instance a groove (9) whose cross-section widens outward in wedge form. Elastically pivotable projections(8) integrally formed with the intermediate section (2) each engage in a groove (9) and are provided in the region of their free edge with an edge (10) of nose-shaped cross section protruding to one side. In the region of the bottom of each groove (9) a lateral enlargement (11) adapted to the cross section of the edge (10) is provided. Due to this design, the cover section (3) can be non-releasably connected to the intermediate section (2) by forces exterted on the cover in a direction perpendicular to the length of the section.

Abstract: A system for protecting exterior building walls against damage from pressure waves generated by explosions on the building exterior. Exterior walls are constructed of multiple wall panels mounted in a circumferential framework of building elements formed by columns, a top surface of the floor below the wall and bottom surface of the floor above the wall. A series of guide tracks mounted in the circumferential surfaces extend perpendicular to the wall panel towards the interior of the building. Guide blocks on the perimeter of the wall panel engage the guide tracks so that the wall panel can slidably move along the tracks when a predetermined threshold force is applied to the exterior of the panel. An adjustable brake, on cooperating with the guide blocks and tracks, permits an accurate setting of the threshold force under which inward movement of the panel commences as well as the relatively constant force that acts during sliding.

Abstract: A blast supression device for use in explosive hardening in a relatively confined enclosed area. The device absorbs and dissipates the explosive force by utilizing a containment frame covered with overlapping multiple flexible resilient flaps that dissipate the explosive force by yielding during the blast within the device.

Abstract: An explosive action inhibiting glazing formed of at least two glass units supported in separate frames. The frames define an intervening space therebetween. The space is connected to the environment external of the outer pane by passages which are either open or which are readily opened to permit the rapid reduction of pressure in the space between the frames. The passages leading to the space may be covered by snap-fitted sections intended to blast clear and open the passage responsive to pressure increases within the space between the frames.

Abstract: A door-like closure for passageways in high-risk high-security installations includes a multilayer protective plate which has a rather high resistance to mechanical, thermal and chemical damaging influences, but which can be rather easily damaged by the action of explosives. To reinforce the protective plate, a reinforcing grid is juxtaposed therewith at the major surface thereof which faces the interior of the installation so that, when an attempt is made to destroy the protective plate by explosives, the reinforcing grid not only will increase the resistance of the protective plate to damage but also will permit the explosive shockwave and the possible debris of the protective plate propelled thereby to penetrate through the apertures of the grid without causing any considerable damage to the grid. The apertures of the grid have such dimensions that an intruder will not be able to reach through the aperture into the interior of the installation to, for instance, manipulate the lock of the closure.