Jamb Patents (Class 109/77)
  • Patent number: 11512524
    Abstract: Some examples provide a fire-rated elevator door frame assembly with a flush transom. The transom includes a transom assembly. A fire-rated partition sits behind the transom on the hoistway side of the elevator doors. Architectural cladding can be applied to the front of the transom and to the front of the elevator doors giving the appearance that the flush transom extends high above the elevator doors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Inventors: Jashan Deshan Eison, Mark Gabriel Hamilton, William Theodore Sillman, Leo Joseph Tomperi
  • Publication number: 20140360416
    Abstract: A security door that impedes or resists the penetration of bullets or other projectiles is provided, which may be used to protect the occupants in a room from threats outside the room by providing a bullet resistant entry door for the room. The preferred embodiment of the bullet resistant security door includes a threat-side outer surface or layer, a first core layer, bullet resistant ballistic layer, a second core layer, an armor layer, and a safe side outer surface or layer and is sufficient to meet the requirements of the Level 3 Protection Level of the UL 752 standard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Inventor: Alan P. Deiler
  • Patent number: 8413472
    Abstract: A combination safe deposit box includes a first box shell and a second box shell fastened together to define a deposit space, a plurality of side guard frames and corner guard frames fastened to and covered on the abutted area between the first box shell and the second box shell, a rim frame affixed to the front side of the first box shell and a second box shell and capped on two distal ends of the connected series of the side guard frames and corner guard frames, and a door panel hinged to one side of the rim frame and adapted to close the deposit space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Inventor: Tung-Lung Chiang
  • Patent number: 8291657
    Abstract: An attack-resistant window assembly that can be easily maintained without requiring the use of tools. The attack-resistant window assembly includes a slidable plate for securing the attack-resistant pane into the window assembly. The window assembly also has ballistic-resistant armor around the peripheral sides of the ballistic-resistant pane to prevent bullets from exiting the peripheral sides of the ballistic-resistant pane and coming into the space on the protected side of the window assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Defenshield, Inc.
    Inventor: William Collins White
  • Publication number: 20100282137
    Abstract: First and second frame sections are to be joined at a corner of a glazing. Each section has a front base piece, a rear base piece, and a glazing stop piece. The front base piece is anchored to a support structure of a building and has a glazing channel facing the safe side of the window, to receive therein the glazing. The glazing stop piece is secured to the front base piece and thereby holds the glazing in its channel. The rear base piece is secured to the front base piece and thereby laterally closes the frame section. The base pieces are shaped so that an end portion of the front base overlaps an end portion of the rear base and a number of fasteners are installed through these end portions to secure the base pieces to each other. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2010
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Applicant: American Development Group International, LLC
    Inventor: Murray L. Neal
  • Publication number: 20100282138
    Abstract: An apparatus for reinforcing door jambs to prevent forced entry through the doorway by strengthening the composite materials of the door jamb with the addition of the apparatus, which is attached with threaded fasteners that go through the door jamb and are anchored into the framing studs. The device is made of 14 gauge ASTM, A-36, Mild Steel with holes through which the latching and locking mechanisms of the door may pass, as well as smaller beveled holes to pass screws through to attach the device to the door jamb and framing studs. The device is also formed so as to facilitate latching mechanism closure. This device can also be used to assist in the repair of damaged door jambs by holding together the damaged portions once they are placed back in position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2010
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Inventor: Aubrey L. Canardy, JR.
  • Patent number: 6843184
    Abstract: A door bolt adjustment system for an open-jamb safe having a door jamb and a door bolt configured to extend behind the door jamb with a gap therebetween. The door bolt adjustment system generally comprises a substantially rigid door bolt adjuster, configured to be attached to the inside of the door jamb, and a displacement mechanism, configured to allow adjustment of the position of the door bolt adjuster so as to occupy the gap. The door bolt adjuster includes a flange for contacting a side of the extended safe door bolt, and when the adjuster occupies the gap, the flange is placed in position for secure contact with the extended door bolt, so as to accommodate the alignment of the door bolt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2005
    Assignee: Liberty Safe and Security Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Darren Wall, Ken Stoddard
  • Patent number: 6164219
    Abstract: Security vault to protect valuable items. The vault has a redundant number of members which combine to deter the entry and subsequent attempted damage to or destruction of the vault. A body has an open end which is surrounded by a strength band connected to the body. A recess is defined between the strength band and the open end of the body. A door to the vault has open and closed positions and, in the closed position, an edge extension of the door enters into the recess. Rod loops are connected between the body and the strength band and act as locking members for complementary pawls which are mounted on the interior of the door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Assignee: John Richard Green
    Inventor: John Richard Green
  • Patent number: 5544595
    Abstract: A hinge arrangement for a gaming device includes a hinge pivotally connecting a cabinet access door to a cabinet. The cabinet access door and the cabinet form a gap therebetween adjacent the hinge when the cabinet access door is closed, but the hinge forms a pocket-shaped barrier around the gap preventing unauthorized access through the gap into the interior of the cabinet. Further, an edge of the cabinet pivots into the pocket and engages a side of the pocket-shaped barrier when the cabinet access door is pivoted 90.degree. to the open position, thus preventing the cabinet access door from pivoting beyond 90.degree. damagingly into an adjacent gaming device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 13, 1996
    Assignee: Spec International Inc.
    Inventors: Orlando W. Stephenson, III, Lee M. Terpstra, Charles E. Armock
  • Patent number: 5503088
    Abstract: A floor safe apparatus has a polymer floor safe housing formed in one piece with an entry opening thereinto and has at least one storage self for supporting a storage container thereon formed into the side of the housing. The storage shelf has an exterior open area therearound for cement fill to lock the floor safe in place. A safe door frame is shaped to fit into the opening in the polymer safe housing and to a ledge formed in the housing and to be locked in place with threaded fasteners extending into a groove formed in the housing. The safe door is shaped to fit into the safe door frame for opening relative to the frame to form a watertight molded polymer floor safe housing having built-in storage compartments and a removable safe door. The molded housing can have a plurality of ridges for inserting partitioning members supported in the grooves of the ridges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 2, 1996
    Assignee: Hayman Safe Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Gary D. Hayman
  • Patent number: 4741277
    Abstract: On an attack-endangered side of members (1, 6) of a fixed frame and a sash frame mounted swingably therein, respective bombardment-inhibiting profiles (11, 12) with overlapping edge margins (11', 12') are provided. In the overlap region these safety profiles (11, 12) define a gap (13). Since the edge surfaces of the bombardment-inhibiting profiles (11, 12) which define the gap (13) are formed with respective ridges (4, 17) and grooves (15, 16) intermeshed with one another, the gap course is sinusoidal. This offers a high degree of security against shoot-through and break-in in the gap region of the door or of the window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 3, 1988
    Inventor: Heinrich Salzer
  • Patent number: 4598647
    Abstract: A bulletproof door and door jamb construction includes a door jamb which includes a vertically and horizontally extending opening therein in an area where bullet shrapnel fragments can pass freely therethrough into the hollow interior of the door jamb so that the spent fragments lose their energy and do not enter the protected area behind the door by otherwise passing through the crack or space between the door and door jamb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1986
    Assignee: National Bullet Proof, Inc.
    Inventor: Frederick F. Biedess
  • Patent number: 4530189
    Abstract: A fire resistant, elevator hatchway door entrance for wall openings up to and including 10 feet in height, including first and second side jambs and a head jamb. Each side jamb includes a pair of upstanding, oppositely facing, metallic channel members dimensioned and coupled together to define both a structural box beam and a pocket for receiving the wall which defines the opening. The bight and one leg portion of one channel member define the jamb depth and reveal, respectively, of the side jamb, and the bight of the other channel member receives and shields an asociated J-strut at the wall-entrance interface. The remaining leg portion of the one channel member may cooperate with a member disposed on the trailing edge of the associated door panel to define a flame shield and a mechanical limit for preventing undue separation of the door panel from the side jamb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1985
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.
    Inventor: Charles E. Randall
  • Patent number: 4461222
    Abstract: In the event of an alarm being raised (e.g. by a sensor 34) by an attempt at breaking into a protected space (36) such as a safe or a strong room, a rapidly hardening foam is suddenly projected around or into the space to be protected. The expanding foam can also be used to drive additional door-barring means into position. The foam may be made by mixing two components that react together. The components can then be stored in tanks (23, 24), where they occupy little volume until the alarm is raised. The components are mixed in a mixing head (27) and projected into the space through a nozzle (28).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 1982
    Date of Patent: July 24, 1984
    Assignee: Fichet-Bauche
    Inventors: Jean-Michel Brunner, Daniel Deschamps
  • Patent number: 4194453
    Abstract: A safe deposit box nest includes an outer housing into which are assembled a number of sheet metal partitions and shelves to form compartments. In order to eliminate the need for individually fitting each compartment door, each such door is hinged to and strikes against posts formed by extruded members such as aluminum attached to the front of the partitions. To the same end the forward edges of the shelves are disposed between the posts and doors and are folded rearwardly upon themselves and compressd to form shelf edge portions of uniform thickness. Finally, the nest is constructed in a manner which reduces welding to a minimum and helps insure accurate and uniform compartment openings to which the doors are applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 25, 1980
    Assignee: Walter Kidde & Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Larry I. Cutter