Safety Locker- Slit Model

A safe deposit locker, also called a safe or http://www.accuranetwork.com/, is a vault used to store valuables. Safe deposit lockers are used by people who want to protect important documents, expensive items like heirloom jewellery, or emergency money reserves, among other things. Storage lockers are most commonly located in bank vaults, and are rented to banking customers. A safe deposit locker is usually protected by at least one lock, often more, and is generally made of indestructible material.

The term “safe deposit locker” is primarily used in Great Britain and current and former British Commonwealth countries, including Australia and India. Most North Americans would refer to the same concept as a “safe deposit box.” The term nearly always refers to a safe that exists as one unit among many, usually in the vault of a bank or other financial institution. Hotels occasionally will also maintain a bank of safe deposit lockers for guest use, particularly if room safes are not available. Sometimes personal lockboxes in homes and offices are referred to as safe deposit lockers, but most of the time, freestanding units are simply called safes.

·         Material: steel is the traditional material; but wood, plastic, or laminate are sometimes used. Plastic or laminate lockers are sometimes advocated in

·         environments, such as near swimming pools, where moisture accumulation may cause steel lockers to rust over time. They can also be used in external applications where internal space is not available.

·         Locking options: various types of key locking or padlocking facility are available now. Key locking options include flush locks, cam locks, or locks incorporated into a rotating handle; padlocking facilities may be a simple hasp and staple, or else a padlocking hole may be included in a handle, often called a latch lock. More modern designs include keyless operation, either by coin deposit (which may or may not be returned when use of the locker terminates), or by using electronic keypads to enter passwords for later reopening the locker. Some older lockers used a drop-latch which was incorporated into the door handle, and slid up and down and could be padlocked at the bottom in the "down" position, but these are less used now. Three-point locking is not possible with this type of latch, because it needs to be operated by means of a latch that rotates rather than slides up and down; so this drop-latch is probably a less secure locking option, which may be why it is little used nowadays. Prefect Combination locks are very popular in school lockers used in the UK due to their ease of use and the time and cost saved in the removal of locker keys.

·         Number of locking points: Locker doors may lock with either single- or three-point locking, but this is not normally chosen as a separate option, and the choice is usually dependent on the number of tiers in the lockers

·         , or whether they are a high-security model, although some manufacturers do allow purchasers to specifically choose an option here that goes against their normal practice. Single-point locking locks the door at only the point where the latch engages with the door-frame, whereas three-point locking uses extensible steel rods to lock the top and bottom of the door as well.