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2. Door security - Wikipedia

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   A metal doorframe with a strike plate built in: in other doors this would be a metal strikeplate in a wooden doorframe. The term door security or door security gate may refer to any of a range of measures used to strengthen doors against door breaching, ram-raiding and lock picking, and prevent crimes such as burglary and home invasions. Door ...

3. Latch - Wikipedia

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   A Suffolk latch is a type of latch incorporating a simple thumb-actuated lever and commonly used to hold wooden gates and doors closed. Comparison of Suffolk and Norfolk latches. The Suffolk latch originated in the English county of Suffolk in the 16th century and stayed in common use until the 19th century.

4. Door furniture - Wikipedia

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   Opening a captured draw bolt-style latch An aldrop, a form of draw bolt latch allowing it to be locked. Functionally, all but swinging doors use some form of fastener to hold them closed. Typical forms of fasteners include: Latch – A device that allows one to fasten a door from one side (but, if designed to, open from either).

5. Mortise lock - Wikipedia

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   The term "warded lock" refers to the lock mechanism, while the term "mortise lock" refers to the bolt location. Warded locks contain a series of static obstructions, or wards, within the lock box; only a key with cutouts to match the obstructions will be able to turn freely in the lock and open the latch. [4]

6. Door lock - Wikipedia

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   a deadbolt lock; a door chain; a locking door handle; an electromagnetic lock, which holds a door shut when electricity is supplied to it; a keycard lock, commonly used on hotel doors; a mortise lock, a lock installed in a hollowed-out pocket within a door; a rim lock, a lock fixed to the exterior of the door

7. Man, 20, Found Dead at Bottom of Elevator Shaft During First ...

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   The family of a 20-year-old man is speaking out after he was found dead at the bottom of a hotel elevator shaft in Turkey while reportedly on his first vacation with his girlfriend.