Importance

Loading Importance Indicators...

Abstract

An improved after hour depository of the type including a throw-in door turnably housed in the frame is disclosed. A control panel is disposed on the frame at the position located adjacent to the throw-in door to control turning movement of the throw-in door. A magnetic card is previously allocated to a client by the bank and when he visits there, he inserts his magnetic card into a card insert slit on the control panel. A control circuit having a number of informations concerning all clients stored therein is electrically connected to the control panel. A locking and unlocking apparatus is provided between the frame and the throw-in door to lock or unlock the throw-in door in accordance with command issued from the control circuit. The locking and unlocking apparatus comprises an electromagnetic solenoid, a locking hole formed on the one side plate of the throw-in door and an actuating mechanism adapted to allow a locking bar to come in or out of the locking hole in response to signal transmitted from the control circuit. The actuating mechanism is operatively connected to the electromagnetic solenoid by way of a linkage system. A spring means adapted to allow the locking bar to normally come out of the locking hole is included in the actuating mechanism. When electric power supply is interrupted, the depository is handled by actuating his key in the conventional manner.

Loading the Abstract Image...

First Claim