Abstract: A security assembly for a hole saw having a body and cap includes a generally cylindrical body configured to fit within a cavity of the hole saw. The cylindrical body includes a side wall portion and a base portion coupled to the side wall portion. The security assembly also includes a security tag housing coupled to the base portion. Tthe security tag housing defines a receptacle for housing a security tag.

Abstract: An electronic seal of the present invention includes a bolt. The bolt is used to mount on a door latch of a cargo and inserts into a shell. The shell is provided with a control circuit to actively send a warning signal as the bolt is moved. As such, the user of the electronic seal can be properly informed to prevent theft.

Abstract: A dual function lock having a body, a shackle and a frangible element extending from the body is disclosed. The dual function lock also includes a first locking mechanism within the body wherein when the first locking mechanism is locked, the shackle is in a first position where the toe of the shackle is located within the frangible element so that the shackle cannot be rotated and wherein when the first locking mechanism is unlocked, the shackle can be lifted from the first position so that the toe of the shackle is not within the frangible element so that the shackle can be rotated. Methods of using the lock and a refillable insert of frangible elements are also disclosed.

Abstract: A lock mechanism is disclosed for a sheet store adapted for the dispensing or accepting of sheets. The sheet store comprises a container having a lid operable for access to the interior of the container and a shutter operable for the passage of sheets therethrough. The lock mechanism comprises: a locking plate movable relative to the container, the locking plate being operable to control a lid lock element and a shutter lock element; and an actuator arranged to control movement of the locking plate. The locking plate is movable between three positions, including: a closed position, in which the shutter lock element prevents opening of the shutter; a primed position, in which the shutter can be opened; and an open position which controls the lid lock element to permit opening of the lid.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for preventing access to calibration controls includes a primary cover including a connection device, an access opening and a first through hole. The primary cover is configured to exclude access to an underlying area. The access opening is located on the primary cover to permit access to the underlying area when securing the primary cover. A shield is configured to fit over the primary cover and prevent access to the access opening. The shield includes a latch portion configured to latch on a first end portion of the primary cover and a second through hole located at a second end portion and corresponding to the first through hole of the primary cover. A security mechanism is configured to be received in the first and second through holes such that the security mechanism shows signs of tampering when unauthorized access to the underlying area is attempted.

Abstract: A sealing device is provided that includes a bolt having a shaft, a tapered end and a circumferential groove; a lock body having an open end leading into a hollow portion; an overmold substantially surrounding the lock body and including an aperture aligned with the open end of the lock body; a lock clip located in the hollow portion of the lock body; and a washer having a hole aligned with the aperture in the overmold and the opening in the lock body and located between an end of the overmold and the lock clip, the lock clip including a plurality of spokes extending inwardly from an outer periphery portion. Some of the spokes can include an inner flange extending generally perpendicular to the spoke, and the inner flanges form a non-continuous inner ring portion.

Abstract: A sealing device is provided that includes a bolt having a shaft, a tapered end and a circumferential groove; a lock body having an open end leading into a bore; an overmold substantially surrounding the lock body and including an aperture aligned with the open end of the lock body; a lock ring located in the bore of the lock body; and a washer having a hole aligned with the aperture in the overmold and the opening in the lock body and located between the overmold and the lock ring, the lock ring including a plurality of spokes extending inwardly from an outer ring portion. Some of the spokes can include an inner flange extending generally perpendicular to the spoke, and the inner flanges form a non-continuous inner ring portion.

Abstract: A sealing bolt for sealing a container lid to a container body, the sealing bolt including: a first identity element configured so as to provide a first identification signal when sensed with an ultrasonic reading device; a second identity element configured so as to provide a second identification signal when sensed with an ultrasonic reading device; and a third identity element. The third identity element includes the first and second identity elements and a third identification signal is formed by the intersection points created by an overlap of the first and second identification signals. The invention also concerns a method for sealing a container lid to a container body using such a sealing bolt.

Abstract: A security sealing system providing tamper detection. Including a self locking flexible material strip bearing indicia and an electronic system. The electronic system includes at least a transponder, having two separated subunits. The transponder is accessible when intact by a wireless reader means, indicating the intactness of said transponder and reading the transponder's memory.

Abstract: A semitrailer cargo door locking system is described for use with a semitrailer cargo door having as part of its opening mechanism a rotatable handle which secured within a hasp mechanism comprising a rigid lower hasp and a swivelable upper hasp. The locking system includes a shackleless keyed lock having an internal bolt for engaging aligned holes provided in the upper and lower hasps, thereby preventing unauthorized opening of the cargo doors when in a locked state. The lock housing is provided both with a protective extension to minimize attempts to pry the lock, and with a tapered side wall to prevent removal by the application of a destructive torque applied by a wrench or other like device. The lock is further provided with a anchor line for either permanently or removably securing the lock to the cargo door. To provide the lock with the ability to be used with regulated loads, a means may also be provided to attach a sealing structure to the lock.

Abstract: A cylinder key lock and locking hasp assembly for use with a stored energy assembly, having a housing and an operator mechanism that may be manually actuated, for use with a circuit breaker assembly, the cylinder lock and locking hasp assembly comprising a cylinder key lock mounted in the stored energy assembly housing, wherein the cylinder key lock extends into the stored energy assembly housing and wherein at least a portion of the cylinder key lock may be moved when actuated, and further wherein the at least a portion of cylinder key lock may be moved to at least one unlocked position or to at least one locked position; a cylinder lock arm, wherein the cylinder lock arm is used to secure one end of said cylinder key lock in the stored energy assembly housing and wherein key actuated movement of the cylinder lock also causes the cylinder lock arm to move to at least one corresponding unsecuring position or to at least one securing position; a lifting member comprising a mounting member and a securing liftin

Abstract: An anti-snooping device for doors to apartments comprising a locking mechanism and a relatively low-strength, "tamperproof" seal capable of engaging the locking mechanism, the locking mechanism being capable of disengagement without, however, compromising the "tamperproof" seal. The invention's preferred embodiment is a chain door lock in which one of the chain's links has been replaced by a coded, colored, plastic, "tamperproof" seal. To enter the apartment, the apartment dweller uses, first, her door key and then, second, the key to or, alternately, the combination of, the anti-snooping device. Entry by anyone else must be effected by breaking the "tamperproof" seal or by breaking or successfully picking the anti-snooping device's lock.

Abstract: A new and improved safety locking device for PVC ball valves and the like comprising, a housing positionable over a PVC ball valve of the type having a on/off handle rotatable about a vertical axis, the handle including a horizontal section positionable in the direction of flow of fluid within coupled pipes when in an open orientation and positionable perpendicular to the direction of flow when in a closed orientation; the housing being formed of a pair of similarly shaped mating halves, each half having a front face and a rear face with each face having a semicircular opening which, when the housing halves are coupled for operation and use, define a circular opening with a central axis coextensive with the axis of the ball valve and pipes coupled with respect thereto, each housing half also having a top face and a bottom face and an exterior side face coupling the front and rear faces but leaving open the interior face with the semicircular openings; the front and rear faces of the housing halves being suffi

Abstract: The present invention provides a heavy duty seal for hasps and latches in combination with a light duty tamper-indicating seal, which extends through the heavy duty seal for indicating tampering or breaking of the heavy duty seal. A sheathed bundle of optical fibers extends through aligned bores in parts of a heavy duty bolt type seal. End portions of the bundle are locked in a locking block and terminal ends of the fibers are exposed in surfaces of the block for observation and indications of light transmittal.

Abstract: A tamper deterrent assembly which is molded of plastic material and includes a body member with an enclosed locking space having an open end. The open end is closed by a closure member mounted on the body member and movable toward a closed end of the locking space. The closure member is normally retained on the body member in a first position and may be moved to a locking position where a strip engaging unit carried by the closure member is received and locked by a locking unit. The locking unit may be carried by an elongated locking strip which is inserted into the locking chamber through a strip receiving slot in the body, or the strip engaging unit may pass through the locking strip and engage a locking unit carried on an end wall of the body.

Abstract: A frangible seal is provided for use with cylindrical access and key holes. The seal is made of a tearable and pliable material, and includes teeth and a score line. The teeth hold the seal in the key hole until the seal is destroyed and removed by unraveling it along the score line.

Abstract: Protecting and sealing cap for the open end of a ferrule, such as a ferrule at the key receiving end of a lock, with a pair of opposed openings through the wall thereof. The cap is cup-shaped with a tubular wall for encircling the ferrule and an end wall at one end of the tubular wall. A stem projects from the end wall toward the opposite end of the tubular wall and engages with a retainer inserted through the ferrule openings so that the cap cannot be removed without fracturing the cap or the retainer. Several stem, cap and retainer configurations are disclosed, and the retainer may be secured to the cap by a flexible cord.

Abstract: A tampering-proof container for storing currency for use in conjunction with an automated teller machine (ATM). The currency door of the container through which the currency passes when the container is mounted on an ATM is moved positively between the open and closed positions when on the ATM. An indicator wheel within the container gives an indication or count of the number of times the currency door has been opened and closed to provide a check on potential sophisticated pilfering. When the count on the indicator wheel reaches a programmed predetermined amount, the currency door is locked in a closed position with first and second locking linkage inside the container locking the currency door in the closed position. A seal on a loading door on the container must be broken to gain access to the inside of the container to unlock the first and second locking linkage and to reset the indicator wheel.

Abstract: The present invention includes a fiber optic seal (2) including a transparent seal body (4) having two spaced apart cavities (12,14,52,54) formed therein. Both ends (36,38) of a fiber optic cable (28) are respectively secured within the spaced apart cavities (12,14,52,54). A microprocessor-based electronic verifier (60) injects light into one of the cable ends (38) via a plurality of illumination light guides (20) fixed within the seal body (4) between an external surface (6) thereof and the illumination cavity (12). Light emitted from the remaining end (36) of the fiber optic cable (28) is transmitted from the detection cavity (14) to the exterior surface (6) of the sealed body (4) via a plurality of detection light guides (24) fixed within the seal body (4). Thereafter, the light is measured and converted by the electronic verifier (60) to provide a seal signature.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a security device which detects tampering with secured closure. A fiber optic bundle is looped through a closure and secured at opposite ends of the bundle to a snap-together connector. An intermediate length of the fiber optic bundle surrounds the snap-together connector preventing access to its locking mechanism unless fibers are severed. After installation, light is passed through the fiber optics and a particular pattern is generated at a viewing end of the connector. Tampering with the closure will cause individual fiber optics to be disturbed or cut so that subsequent viewing of the fiber optics will generate a different viewing pattern than originally observed.

Abstract: A thermograph adapted to be pre-loaded with chart paper upon which shipping information can be written, and comprising an instrument unit enclosed in an expendable container for automatic operation and security assured by a seal, the instrument being operated horologically in combination with a thermometer and all of which is electro-mechanical wherein solid state circuitry powers prime movers to advance the chart on a time basis while servo positioning a recording stylus by means of interval pulses, and responsive to a temperature sensing transducer means cooperating with the solid state circuitry comprised of a comparator means, and discriminator means operable to actuate switch means to "power-up" or "power-down" prime movers that position said stylus according to temperature sensed by said transducer means.

Abstract: A fiber optic seal having a block with similar fiber spreading inserts and similar fiber combining inserts which terminate in rectangular facial fiber openings. The block is placed on alignment lugs and a rectangular reticle is precisely moved by a micrometer in front of the light source to illuminate the one group of fiber ends. The second group of ends in the block is observed through an observing device mounted in an angle in the housing parallel to a handle which includes a power source.

Abstract: A reusable, tamper-indicating seal comprises a drum confined within a fixed body and rotatable in one direction therewithin, the top of the drum constituting a tray carrying a large number of small balls of several different colors. The fixed body contains parallel holes for looping a seal wire therethrough. The base of the drums carries cams adapted to coact with cam followers to lock the wire within the seal at one angular position of the drum. A channel in the fixed body -- visible from outside the seal -- adjacent the tray constitutes a segregated location for a small plurality of the colored balls. A spring in the tray forces colored balls into the segregated location at one angular position of the drum, further rotation securing the balls in position and the wires in the seal. A wedge-shaped plough removes the balls from the segregated location, at a different angular position of the drum, the wire being unlocked at the same position.

Abstract: A fiber optic bundle is placed through an object to be sealed. Ends of the fibers are spread and threaded through one another in a random dispersion, disorienting the fibers. Randomly reoriented ends are regathered and clamped. A moveable reticle at a light input termini of the fibers creates unique identifiable patterns at the output end of the fibers.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a security device which detects tampering with secured closure. A fiber optic bundle is looped through a closure and secured at opposite ends of the bundle to a collar. After installation, light is passed through the fiber optics and they generate a particular pattern at a viewing end of the collar. If there is any tampering with the enclosure, the individual fiber optics will be disturbed or cut. Subsequent viewing of the fiber optics will generate a different viewing pattern indicating that tampering has occurred.