key facts about how to obtain closure New Home owners are twice as likely to get burgled in the first 12 months than any other property. 8 out of 10 Brits still hide a key under a plant pot? 64% of business have been victims of crime in the last year! 40% of business do not report crime because of lack of faith! Is there a solution.....NO....there are plenty!! Tailored to your needs mul-t- lock high security, key control,mechanical security,access control,support, SO take control of your security MUL-T-LOCK it. Alympic are now approved suppliers of these high quality locks. Whichever crime statistics you choose to believe, the chances of an average household being burgled that has fantastic security are around once every 35-50 years depending on area ! Not bad odds, but still we try to devise more and more ingenious ways to keep intruders out of our houses. In our locksmiths experiences that are called out to burglaries ,,,,there was in most situations a better lock or security system that could have been in place. We do believe mul-t-lock is the future not only making it impossible for people to copy keys (without authorisation ) but also high security with BS anti snap mul-t-locks. To reassure customers all locks that alympic locksmith use are to a basic standard 6 pin, anti drill, anti pick! Actually, domestic front door locks havent changed much for a hundred and fifty years; literally true if you examine the Easter Island display at the Science Museums magnificent lock exhibition. Even in the West, the materials are different and their appearance is more varied, but locks essential operation is unchanged. Yale even promotes itself as emulating the traditions of Egyptian locks and keys - dating back to Nineveh and its palaces, four thousand years ago. Mind you, security consciousness has its downsides. In the 16th century, Ivan Vasilyevich, Tsar of all Russia, locked his wife in her room while he went off to war. To make sure no one could use a duplicate key to gain entry he had the locksmith beheaded. Tragically she fell ill and, unable to get medical help, she died - reputedly turning a relatively benign ruler into the legendary Ivan the Terrible. It the turn of the 19th century, British locksmiths Robert Barron and Joseph Brammah developed the idea of having a small key that didnt reach the bolt but acted through intervening moving parts. In these, the lock turns a cam that pulls a latch back, allowing the door to open. A spring usually pushes the bolt back out again. A non-spring-loaded latch called a deadbolt (requiring a key to open and close the bolt) is usually more secure as it is more difficult to push the bolt in from the side of the door. Jeremiah Chubb of Portsmouth patented the detector lock in 1818, which won a government challenge for a lock that could not be opened by any other than its own key. Even a professional locksmith who was imprisoned on a ship in Portsmouth Docks - with the incentive of a promise of a pardon and £100 - failed to open it after trying for three months. The cylinder pin tumbler lock, by Linus Yale of New York in 1848, uses Barrons double tumbler principle invented seventy years earlier. It has rows of two sets of pins one above the other - the double tumblers - which stop the cylinder from moving. The correct key raises the pins such that the joint lines between them lines up with the cylinder edge. This frees the cylinder to move within the barrel, allowing it to move and turn the cam. The cam moves the locking bolt - or latch - in and out. With minor modifications, this remains the basis of Yale locks .
Posted on: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 19:10:11 +0000
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