BURGLAR ALARMS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 151, 30 June 1928, Page 20

BURGLAR ALARMS

METHODS OF HINDERING HIS ACTIVITIES. If civilisation cannot eradicate the burglar, it can at least hinder his activities, and there are on the market to-day various types of burglar alarms designed to give the householder a modicum of safety against unwelcome visits by night. A combined bell indicator and burglar alarm system was introduced and shown to tho public for tho first time at the Ideal Homes Exhibition at Olympia (London). Simply, this is an oxtonsion to the ordinary domestic electric bell system (in which there is a bell push in each of the main rooms of the house-and a pendulum indicator in tho kitchen). In the burglar alarm system tho wiring is extended to the windows and to tho doors, to which arc attached burglar alarm contacts, and also to the chief bedroom, where there is installed a loud continuous action electric bell and f.lso another indicator of the mechanical replacement type. Before, retiring for tho night the householder, by Hip simple movement, of-a switch, transfers tho bell indicator system from the kitchen to his bedroom, then, if any nf flic windows ov- doors should bo i.-uii-pcred with during the night, the boll in the bedroom will ring continuously, while the indicator will show the householder in which room he may expect In find tho intruder —if he has troubled to stay so long.