Abstract: A gas delivery device configured to be inserted into a structure. The gas delivery device also being configured to be attached to a vehicle. The gas delivery device including a housing and a canister rack disposed within the housing. The canister rack being configured to hold two or more chemical agent canisters. A gas delivery apparatus including a gas delivery device and triggering device is also disclosed.

Abstract: A gas delivery device configured to be inserted into a structure. The gas delivery device also being configured to be attached to a vehicle. The gas delivery device including a housing and a canister rack disposed within the housing. The canister rack being configured to hold two or more chemical agent canisters. A gas delivery apparatus including a gas delivery device and triggering device is also disclosed.

Abstract: In response to determining that a panic situation exists, an aircraft panic component can at least partially disable various systems of an aircraft, such as a navigation system (e.g., flight plans), an operational system (e.g., aircraft controls), or other suitable systems. For example, elements of a navigation and/or operational system of the aircraft may be disabled to disable local (e.g., pilot or cockpit) control of those system and/or to at least partially disable local operational systems of the aircraft (e.g., hydraulic or pneumatic flight control mechanisms, etc.). The navigation system can be updated with a new flight plan and the aircraft can have its autopilot engaged to pilot the aircraft according to the new flight plan such as to direct the aircraft to a certain altitude and/or heading. A remote terminal can be notified of the panic situation and control of the navigation system and/or operational systems can be turned over, potentially exclusively, to the remote terminal.

Abstract: A locking device employs improved lock management techniques based on time delay polices that use a random period of time. The locking device receives a first credential of a custodian, validates the first credential and determines a random period of time based upon a time-delay policy when the first credential is validated. The locking device executes a lock release protocol upon expiration of the random period of time.

Abstract: A multi-component dye unit for use in a system to protect valuables. The unit comprises at least two reservoirs arranged in an external container or housing. The reservoirs are filled with different agents A and B, and connected to a spraying device capable of staining the contents of a secured container. The reservoirs are preferably made of flexible material and the contents thereof may be expelled by gas pressure in said external container. Advantageously, the external container may be made of two parts clippable together.

Abstract: A system and method to enhance vault security and management. An identity of a user is electronically validated. A floor plan of the vault and associated location of an authorized resource is retrieved in access computer. The user is then signaled a location of the resource within the vault.

Abstract: An intrusion deterrence accessory device for an enclosure having an original door or panel for limiting access to the enclosure includes a replacement door or panel for the enclosure, the door or panel being directly substitutable for the original door or panel; a dispenser for a deterrence substance operably mounted to the replacement door or panel; and an intrusion sensor operably mounted to the replacement door, wherein the dispenser is operable to dispense the deterrence substance when an intrusion is sensed by the intrusion sensor.

Abstract: The invention relates to a protection unit for use in or as a secured container, comprising a compartment for storage of valuables, a detection unit, a track and trace unit, and a foam generating unit comprising a quick expanding and hardening or sticky foam, wherein detection by the detection unit of an unallowed event triggers the track and trace unit and the foam generating unit for trapping the operational track and trace unit and valuables into a block of foam. The electronics for track and tracing may comprise a module for transmission via telecommunication or internet of its position to a remote receiver.

Abstract: There is provided a protection method and protection system for valuables. An internal enclosure for enclosing the valuables, an external enclosure for enclosing the internal enclosure, a misuse protection device for the valuables, and a triggering device for triggering the misuse protection device in the event of an unauthorized manipulation of the external enclosure are provided. The external enclosure is closable to form a seal. A pressure chamber, which is impinged by an initial pressure, is produced in the external enclosure. A setpoint pressure is generated, which deviates from the ambient pressure, in the pressure chamber when the external enclosure is closed to form a seal. A pressure sensor is used for detecting the pressure in the pressure chamber. The pressure sensor controls initialization of the triggering device. The triggering device triggers the misuse protection device when the pressure deviates by more than a tolerance pressure value from the setpoint pressure.

Abstract: Security system having a container, which encloses a strongbox area for receiving valuables. A device for carrying the container, a protection system for protecting the valuables located in the strongbox area, and an access opening are provided. At least one protection module is provided in the strongbox area, the protection module being designed for the purpose of neutralizing the valuables located in the strongbox area. The device for carrying is implemented as a separate module, which comprises a handle area, a mechanical interface for the mechanical connection to the container, a security circuit for securing the security system, and a security interface for establishing a communication link between the security circuit and the protection module.

Abstract: The invention pertains to a method and to an arrangement applicable to a container or to a chamber, for instance to a security chamber for valuable articles. The container/chamber(20) has a casing or shell (10) in which an explosive substance or a burstable item is housed. The arrangement has a detector (50, 50?) at the shell (10) for detecting ambient temperature or shell temperature. The explosive substance is detonated or the burstable item is depressurised to prevent bursting of the outer casing/shell (10)of the container or the chamber at a predetermined temperature limit value. The detector (50, 50?) for detecting the ambient temperature or the shell temperature is disposed essentially across the whole surface of the shell/casing (10).

Abstract: The present invention is directed towards a container for transporting of valuables in a first compartment; particularly towards a container having a second compartment containing an alarm system. The alarm system includes an air bladder, i.e. airbag, for instantaneous and rapid deployment when triggered by a remote activator or other devices present on the container. After being triggered the air bladder inflates to a volume much greater than the second compartment and the container, such that the thief cannot easily transport the container into a car or through a doorway, or at the very least without being noticed.

Abstract: A method and a facility for the protection of a crowd from terrorists by screening each individual in search of concealed prohibited articles possibly carried by one of the individuals in the crowd. Each individual is monitored by sensors controlled by a monitoring unit while passing in single line queue over a fenced walkway and through a confinement structure containing a one-way passage control device. When a prohibited object is detected, response is provided and the passage control device is locked to detain the suspect individual in the confinement structure interior. The confinement structure is configured to deflect the blast created by an explosion initiated therein, and to prevent harm to the individuals residing on the fenced walkway.

Abstract: A marking device in a paper money theft proof system can surely provide a mark to stolen paper money so as to alert the public, and can also be used repeatedly, and thus economically. The marking device has a sensor that detects a shock produced when a paper money container is moved or broken to take paper money contained in the paper money container out of it. A marking device provides a mark to at least a part of the paper money under the control of signals from the sensor, the marking device being constructed so as to partially cut the paper money.

Abstract: A safe for accomodating valuable documents includes one or more units (1-17), each of which is intended to accomodate several valuable documents and is equipped with destructive devices (112-172) for local destruction of valuable documents in respective units when an attempt to break into the safe (1) is made. Each of the destruction devices (e.g. 112) includes at least one container (31) disposed adjacent a valuable document wind-up drum (30). The container includes a peripheral, circular continuous recess or channel (311) intended for destructive material (33) and facing towards the exposed edges of valuable documents. The opening (3111, 3211) of the recess or channel (311, 321) is covered with a ring-shaped plastic or steel net. The recess contains dye capsules (33) and a ring-shaped fuse (3113, 3213) for activation of the dye when an attempt to break into the safe (1) is made.

Abstract: There is disclosed a smudging-fluid dispensing apparatus for banknote and valuables containers internally provided with drawers (3) having predetermined work positions and extraction directions (3a), the apparatus comprising: a bottle (5) under pressure for the smudging fluid, channeling members (6) extending between the bottle (5) and the drawers (3) and including, at the drawers (3), movable fitting lengths (12) having hooking positions at which the drawers (3) and bottle (5) are connected with each other, electronic control and operation devices (7) for the supply of the smudging fluid, and guide elements (14) to impose to the fitting lengths (12) guide trajectories (14a) terminating at the hooking positions only in the presence of drawers (3) in the work positions.

Abstract: An anti-effraction device in particular for automatic dispensers of banknotes and valuables is provided which comprises a casing, a door formed in the casing, and at least one container internal to the casing and adapted to house banknotes and valuables, the anti-effraction device comprising time control members adapted to impose a delay period in the door-opening procedure and detection means adapted to detect the presence of banknotes and valuables in the container and to send the time control members a correction signal substantially depending on the presence of banknotes and valuables, said time control members being at least partly interlocked to said correction signal in a manner adapted to vary the delay period in the presence of the correction signal.

Abstract: A method of destroying an object(s) stored in an alarm-protected safety enclosure, there being a destructive agent which is distributed over the object(s) when an alarm is triggered. The destructive agent marks and/or destroys the object(s) within the safety enclosure. A first explosive substance and a second explosive substance are used to shred the object(s) and to distribute the destructive agent over the object(s). The first explosive substance may be triggered by the alarm prior to the second explosive substance. The triggered first explosive substance shredding the object(s) and the triggered second explosive substance distributing the destructive agent over the object(s).

Abstract: A remote access system remotely accesses one or more electronic locks from a locally placed computer. The computer includes a key receptacle electrically coupled to the computer. The key receptacle allows ingress of a key, whereupon insertion of the key and login permission granted allows access of the computer to an electronic lock via a communication channel. The electronic lock is mechanically, electrically and functionally connected to activate and deactivate a locking mechanism of a lockable device. According to one arrangement, the computer is connected to the electronic lock via the communication channel to allow the user remote login to the electronic lock. The user located remote from the lock may therefore operate the lock from the remote location.

Abstract: An explosive device for making noise combined with a keychain comprises a barrel having a bore formed therein accommodating a blank. The device also has a pin disposed in the bore of the barrel and a spring surrounding the periphery of the pin. A ring member connects with the pin. The device makes noise by manually moving the ring member between a first and a second position. The ring member rests against a stop in the barrel remote from the blank in the first position. The ring member releases from the stop, permitting the pin to strike the blank in the barrel under force of the spring, in the second position.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method, and the equipment necessary for implementation thereof, for the unnoticeable detection of armed persons in the region giving access to objects that require protection and for the detention of such persons by surprise. Detention by surprise prevents individuals prepared to do violence from being able to run amok or take hostages in order to secure their own release.

Abstract: A robbery deterrent apparatus and method is provided for convenience stores or other businesses vulnerable to armed robbery, in which a would-be armed robber is incapacitated by an aerosol agent that is delivered in a predetermined pattern within the store. In a preferred embodiment, the aerosol incapacitating agent is delivered immediately upon the detection of a firearm discharge, or after a short delay in response to an employee activated trigger. The aerosol incapacitating agent may be accompanied by a marking agent, such as ultraviolet dye, to assist authorities in capturing and identifying the would-be armed robber in the event he or she is able to escape the store after the robbery attempt.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided to prevent theft and vandalism to motor vehicles. Comprised of an adjustable bar with locking hooks which is securable across the diameter of a motor vehicle steering wheel rim, such that steering wheel movement is inhibited by physical abutment with the vehicle interior. The apparatus also includes a visual deterrent as well as a physically incapacitating chemical compound, such as tear gas, mace, or pepper spray or a combination of such, which is dispersed into the vehicle interior in the case of tampering or removal by an unauthorized user.

Abstract: An anti-theft device for Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) provides for the blurring or defacing of banknotes which are stored within ATM banknote cassettes/containers within the ATM upon a breach of security of the ATM, the breach of security being either a break-in attempt or the attempted removal of the entire ATM from its location. An indelible dye or ink, stored under pressure within a tank internal to the ATM unit, is caused to be released into a distribution manifold, which is integral with the banknote cassette and in communication with the interior thereof, upon receipt of an actuating signal. The actuating signal is preferably developed by an electrical device which triggers the release of the ink into the cassette. In one embodiment, connection and disconnection of the distribution manifold to the tank occurs automatically without user interface when cassettes are changed. In another embodiment, the distribution manifold is separate from the cassette.

Abstract: An anti-theft device for Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) provides for the blurring or defacing of banknotes which are stored within ATM banknote cassettes/containers within the ATM upon a breach of security of the ATM, the breach of security being either a break-in attempt or the attempted removal of the entire ATM from its location. An indelible dye or ink, stored under pressure within a tank internal to the ATM unit, is caused to be released into a distribution manifold, which is integral with the banknote cassette and in communication with the interior thereof, upon receipt of an actuating signal. The actuating signal is preferably developed by an electrical device which triggers the release of the ink into the cassette. In one embodiment, connection and disconnection of the distribution manifold to the tank occurs automatically without user interface when cassettes are changed.

Abstract: A currency alarm pack for triggering an alarm to foil a bank robbery consists of a receiver for detecting an electromagnetic field at the exit of a bank and a circuit which activates an alarm to release dye and/or tear gas when the alarm pack leaves the field. The receiver has automatic gain control hysteresis causing its gain to increase when it first detects the field so that it automatically locks onto the field. This reduces the chance of activation of the alarm pack inside a bank if the robber does not exit the bank immediately.

Abstract: An apparatus for protecting an auto from hijacking, comprises a nozzle for mounting in a position adjacent a driver's door for directing a spray of a disabling substance into an area at about face level at the driver's door, a source of pressurized disabling fluid, a conduit for connecting the source of fluid to the nozzle for delivering a selected quantity of the fluid to the nozzle, and a remote control switch operative from the driver's seat of the auto for initiating the dispensing of a quantity of the fluid via the nozzle.

Abstract: A theft deterrent device (10) is provided for enclosures such as dwellings, motor vehicles and the like, having one or more entranceways. The device is adapted to be quickly and easily installed within such enclosures and is connected electrically with pre-existing electrical circuitry of the enclosure, causing the device to emit a noxious gas, upon unauthorized entry into the enclosure via one of the entranceways. The noxious gas renders the enclosure temporarily uninhabitable. The device may be activated or deactivated remotely from outside the enclosure. The device also includes other safety features to prevent accidental discharge of the noxious gas.

Abstract: A security device for transporting documents of value such as bank notes, comprising an enclosure having a space for receiving the documents and housing a foam generating unit including a receptacle containing marker liquid adapted to foam up and color documents, said receptacle having openable closure means, a reserve of compressed gas having means for releasing compressed gas, actuating means for controlling said means for releasing compressed gas, at least one movable wall disposed inside said receptacle between said marker liquid and said means for releasing compressed gas, a liquid/air mixing means connected downstream of said receptacle closure means for converting marker liquid into marker foam in response to compressed gas released from said reserve urging said movable wall to force liquid via said closure means to said liquid/air mixing means, and discharge means for carrying marker foam from said liquid/air mixing means to said space for marking said documents.

Abstract: A system for disabling robbers has an ejector arranged for projecting needle-like discrete articles across a passageway which a robber must traverse during flight, and toward a receptor disposed opposite of and spaced from the ejector across the passageway. Articles which do not strike the body of the robber will be received by the receptor. A tranquilizer is provided on the articles for rendering the robber unconscious in seconds. Personnel inside the building subjected to robbery can activate the system, either directly as the robber attempts to leave the building, or indirectly by actuating a sensor system when the robbery is first instigated.

Abstract: A gas and/or aerosol dispenser ring for irritant substances to be worn on the hand of the user comprising a ring band to fit on the finger of the user's hand, a mounting on the ring band, and a dispenser assembly carried by the mounting with the dispenser assembly including a gas and/or aerosol reservoir containing a supply of gas or aerosol therein under pressure, a discharge valve assembly communicating with the supply of gas or aerosol in the reservoir to selectively discharge the gas or aerosol when the valve assembly is activated, a manually engageable trigger for selectively activating the valve assembly, and a false stone member substantially covering the reservoir and the discharge valve assembly to camouflage same.

Abstract: A security device consisting of a box-like container having a discharge opening extending through one face thereof and which may be attached to a door or window of a residence or office, or to or adjacent an area which would be attractive to unauthorized persons, said box-like container has therein a removable and replaceable cartridge containing a disabling gas such as tear gas or the like, or a liquid dye of a particular color, or a potent distinctively smelling gas or liquid to be discharged at an unauthorized person.