Patent ID: 7350470
Filing Date: 2008-04-01
Classification: E05D,E05G,E05Y

Abstract:
1. A safe having a top panel, right and left side panels, a bottom panel and a rear panel defining a housing having an internal compartment, and a pivoting door coupled to a selected one of said right and left side panels to secure the internal compartment, said safe further comprising: a security mechanism for releasably locking the pivoting door to the housing; a handle for moving said pivoting door between a closed position and an open position; first and second vertically aligned, vertically oriented spaced apart spring actuated pivot rods embedded in one of said side panels, said one of said side panels having a columnar recess at a front edge and said first and second vertically aligned, vertically oriented spaced apart spring actuated pivot rods having opposed ends that project from an embedded position into said columnar recess; a laterally protruding lug integrally projecting from a lateral edge of said pivoting door, said lug received in said columnar recess and having first and second openings in respective upper and lower surfaces, each opening arranged to capture one of said opposed ends of the pivot rods such that said pivoting door is supported by and pivots about said pivot rods; and said lug comprising a planar front surface coplanar with a front planar surface of said pivoting door, a planar side surface orthogonal to said planar front surface and coplanar with said one of said side panels when the pivoting door is closed, and an arced rear surface integrally connected to an inner surface of said pivoting door.