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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.

3. Linus Yale Jr. - Wikipedia

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   In 1856, after a commission appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury, the US Treasury Department selected Yale's enterprise to become the sole supplier of bank locks, safe locks, burglar proof safes, and vault doors, for all the new Mint, Sub-Treasuries, and Custom-Houses in the United States, and received praised from U.S. Mint director ...

4. Segal Lock and Hardware Company - Wikipedia

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   The business was at first known as the Burglar-Proof Lock Company. Segal was started by Samuel Segal, formerly a New York City detective in 1912, through his invention of a nearly burglar-proof lock. The vertical deadbolt lock eliminated a horizontal bolt, concentrating on the hinge principle. Segal had noticed that burglars forced locks but ...

5. How to Burglar-Proof Your Home—According to the Experts - AOL

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6. Lever tumbler lock - Wikipedia

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   Higher security lever locks (such as the five-lever) usually have notches cut into the levers. These catch the locking bolt and prevent it from moving if picking is attempted (similar to the security pins in a pin tumbler lock). The Chubb detector lock is a variation of the lever lock which was designed to detect and prevent picking attempts.

7. Removing the screws from your door could help stop a burglar ...

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   That's why Harrison's dad took out the short screws in her front door when she first moved into her apartment, replacing them with 4-inch screws. "They can kick for a long time before they get ...