A DEFIANCE TO BURGLARS

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 160, 1 April 1922, Page 8

A DEFIANCE TO BURGLARS

DEVICE INVENTED BY NEW ZEALANDER.

(Published by Arrangement.) It is a wonderful thing to be able to boast of a device invented by a New Zealander which will ® bsolu . l n el Z, m mer anv attempt to unlock the pin-tumbl loc'k, of which 65,000 ere in use in V el-lin-’ton alone, while there are twenty eight makers of them in different parts of the world. Yet at a demonstration given here yesterday by the Bacon security Lock Plug Company, this was so fully proved that a number of. the audience at once ordered that their and factories should be fitted up with the security lock plug. Mr Bacon mentioned a remarkable fact which occurred the vther day. lie had fitted a plug to the door of a jeweller’s shop, which also had two other locks, one above and one below the pin-tumbler lock, and that very night it was discovered that burglars had been at work; two of the locks had been forced, but the one with the security plug on withstood all, efforts made to open it, and remained intact, as a monument to the skill of the. inventor. The plug is very easily fixed,, is not visible afterwards from the inside or outside of the door; it does not deface the door, it does not alter the appearance of the door, it makes the lock absolutely secure, and is the simplest donee ever invented to turn an ordinary lock into a burglar-proof device, at a very slight cost and without requiring any alteration of the lock at all. There is no invention known which is likely to> assure the certainty of making a lock of unexampled impregnability, except for the one weak spot, perfect throughout, and the company is to be congratulated upon the possession of a patent for which there is such a wide market. The device has been patented in Great Britain, the United States, Canada, France, BeL gium, Germany, New Zealand, and Australia, and is being manufactured in .New Zealand at as fast a . rate as possible, an inspection of it in actual use being sufficient to ensure its sale. Those desiring a demonstration should communicate with the secretary of the commni’ Mr. O. G. lumber. 26 Bank of New South Wales Chambers, 324 Lambton Quay, where full information will be willingly furnished.