The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1895-07-25

stiempt made to improve tbe az ia locks
some Of these locks on light irao door
would weigh sixty or seventy five pounds
which 10 msny instances would ooi
Weigh the door which vas being locked ~
/ II.
wbcn the combination Iaek was rerlee'
el the merchant sud banker felt they bad
reached the limit Of mechanical skill &c
lock l0yenton
The burglar %, to BE- htoiad in bis hn'
iuess, bethouebt himself Of how easy IL
vas to get into the cashiers house al
uight, hiud aud gag tue whole household.
ard force the cashier TO diyilgo the comb
nation Of the money vault, so to The bark
snd help himself The vas done IN "a nnm
ter Of cases -lotaby At Northampton,
Mass aud Milford, y H. il both places
nearly 81 600 600 being thus obtaluod.
The burglars IN many eases pnt the
bank officers to most severe aud barbarous
torture before they would diyulgo the CON
biualion secret
The burgpr was nov ahead Of the lock
man again, ard hence the invention Of the
celebrated time or ohrouometet lock This
was the last aud greatest invention in the
history Of locks. The time lock is attach
ed to the inside If safe OF vault door
and having 20 communication with the
outside, is connected 70 the bolt work on
the door in such a manner that when the
door is closed and the bolts are thrown on
bv handle or knob, and the combination
lock disls are turned on, the time Iock
goes on duty immediately, and no amount
Of work 90 the door or knobs will unlock
the door until such time bas arrived for
which the lock was set has expired. The
time locks were constructed so that they
could be wound TO feep the door locked
from one TO forty eight hours.
The time locks we're so mace that there
were movements IN each case, and il a
msinspring or hOlrspriug in one broke,or
# from any cause one movement failed to
operate. the other would run on and trip
the mechanical device, and allow the bolts
on the door to be released.
The lock aud safe makers not content
with tins step iu advance OF the burglar,
have further perfected the locking mai
chimes by dong away altogether with com
biustion locks on the door and also with
spindles or srbors Of any kind. They now
make safe or vault door Of any thickness
the banker desires, and on the inside
put on from twenty to thirty massive steel
bolts. These steel bolts are connected to
what il termed su automatic device which
is in turn connected with q time lock hay
Jog three movements, and can be set to
run seventy two hours Any one move
ment will successfully operate the automa
tic device.
For instance, a banker has vault door
of solid steel, SIX inches thick. He wants
20 90 home at night or in the afternoon at,
say o'clock; he wants the safe to Open
say at o'clock the next morning. This
be aocomplishes by simply setting bis an
tomato device with wrench winds up
bis time lock to No. II, which meats that
the lock is to remain closed for seventeen
hours. He then shuts his vault door and
screws it IN hard, with wheel and gear.
When the door is squeezed into its proper
pl ace the automatic device shoots the mas
,ive bolts, weighing several hundred
forward, upward, downward, and
backward. The time lock automatically
ocks them. and your vault is securely
ocked for seventeen hours.
Thus We see that the safemaker IS far
ahead Of he burglar, and be deserves great
credit for the ingenuity and ability display
I'd 10 bis inventions.