Abstract: Reactive armor that includes a casing having a plurality of walls, a back, and a cavity formed therebetween; a cover that closes the cavity and forms a strike face; a filler placed within the cavity, the filler comprising a disruptive material; and an explosive. To defeat projectile or projectile related threats, the reactive armor substantially, but not necessarily wholly, implements laterally oriented force mechanisms, erosion mechanisms, and bulking mechanisms, e.g., explosive forces, with respect to the strike face.

Abstract: Reactive armor that includes a casing having a plurality of walls, a back, and a cavity formed therebetween; a cover that closes the cavity and forms a strike face; a filler placed within the cavity, the filler comprising a disruptive material; and an explosive. To defeat projectile or projectile related threats, the reactive armor substantially, but not necessarily wholly, implements laterally oriented force mechanisms, erosion mechanisms, and bulking mechanisms, e.g., explosive forces, with respect to the strike face.

Abstract: A contained volume of particulate materials that is optimized for eroding ballistic penetrator, explosively formed penetrators, shaped charges, ballistic fragments, and other ballistic threats. The particulate materials include crushed garnet, crushed ceramics and sand. The volume of particulate materials may be mixed with explosive rods or pills. These explosive rods or pills ignite when the ballistic threat reaches a preset area within the armor box. Particulate material and armor boxes can consist of configurations using ballistic balls and irregular shaped stones or gravel. Alternate embodiments may contain configurations utilizing ballistic rods, electronic timing devices, and explosive detonators.

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: A security device for transporting monies from a cash acceptance terminal to a bank or similar safe location includes a note tube and a pair of flexible bags containing dye. Cutters operated by explosive devices when an unauthorised attempt is made to break into the note tube pass down the sides of the bags and rip them open. There is provided spring loaded pressure plates which serve to compress the bags to cause the dye to be ejected effectively into the note tube to stain all the notes therein.

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: 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: The invention concerns a protective device for valuable documents, including a volume capable of being closed and divided into two compartments, one of the compartments being used to receive the documents to be protected while in the second compartment caps contain a pyrotechnic mixture which, when the device is wrongly manipulated, will burst into a flame and penetrate the documents in the first mentioned compartment.

Abstract: The invention concerns a protective device for valuable documents, including a volume capable of being closed and divided into two compartments, one of the compartments being used to receive the documents to be protected while in the second compartment caps contain a pyrotechnic mixture which, when the device is wrongly manipulated, will burst into a flame which will penetrate the documents in the first mentioned compartment.

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 security device for credit cards, charge cards, cash cards and the like has a base, an integrally molded top partially extending along the length of the base and a lid pivotally secured to one end of the base. A key pad is recessed into the top. The lid has an electrically operated latch operated by the key pad. A cartridge for the cards is formed of cardboard bent into a serpentine format to provide an upper compartment and a lower compartment, each compartment being suitable for holding up to four cards each. The internal surfaces of the cartridge are coated with a pyrotechnic material and a heating coil is connected to the cartridge. An authorized user of the device has a personal code which when inputted via the key pad opens the lid. Incorrect input of the code causes a piezoelectric bleeper to sound. Two incorrect input sequences are permitted but on the third incorrect sequence the coil causes the pyrotechnic solution on the cartridge to heat up and destroy the cards within the device.

Abstract: Method and device for permanently locking a movable member in a framework, such as locking a door of a safe in case of an attack, in which an explosive member sensitive to an outer action is detonated and deforms the movable member such as a door of the safe to create an artifical bolt extending outside of the movable member and penetrating in the framework, e.g. of the safe. The movable member is thus automatically locked when the artificial bolt is created under the effect of the explosion. Alternatively, the explosive member may be provided in the framework itself, in which case the framework is deformed due to the effect of the explosion, creating an artificial bolt which extends into the movable member itself, e.g. the door of a safe.

Abstract: A protective armament or intercept system includes a plurality of explosive harges arranged in a grid pattern in spaced parallel relationship to a grid sensing pattern formed by intersecting light sources each of which are aimed at respective photoelectric cells. The light sources and the photoelectric cells form a protective and sensing field with intersecting points which are in alignment with respective explosive charges and when the light sources at an intersecting point are broken, the receiving photoelectric cells for the broken light sources will be influenced so as to ignite the charge which is in alignment with the broken intersection point of the light sources. The construction of a preferred explosive charge and the various preferred arrangements of the explosive charges in respect to the sensing pattern formed by the photoelectric cells and light sources are set forth and described in respect to the protection of an aircraft hanger and a movable vehicle such as a tank by way of example.