WO1997023852A1

WO1997023852A1 - Means for the temporary detainment of a wrongdoer

Info

Publication number: WO1997023852A1
Application number: PCT/EP1996/005778
Authority: WO
Inventors: Horst Georg Bugiel
Original assignee: Horst Georg Bugiel
Priority date: 1995-12-21
Filing date: 1996-12-20
Publication date: 1997-07-03
Also published as: PL327289A1; EP0877994A1; JP2000503142A; CA2251102A1

Abstract

To catch a person committing the ever-increasing very rapid acts of robbery or an intruder committing a theft, a net dispenser for launching at least one net is attached discretely in the intermediate space above a suspended ceiling or above or below a typical entry or escape route e.g. near the room lighting or above the door of a fixed or moving space (such as shop premises, a goods container or a delivery vehicle). After focusing the system, by remote control or using a key switch, it is triggered in the event of a robbery (by a button, e.g. on a sales counter or on an instrument panel, by a burglar sensor or by remote control) to launch the net using the reaction gas pressure from explosives as soon as the wrongdoer activates the response characteristic of a triggering sensor in passing the latter in the entry or escape route. The wrongdoer is caught in the net and is consequently prevented, at least temporarily, from escaping, using a weapon or taking someone hostage. The wrongdoer remains caught until a neighbourhood assistance or security bodies arrive and definitively arrest the wrongdoer. However, when authorised people pass by, their legitimate presence in the vicinity of the net dispenser is verified by inductive reading of their passive transponder and the net dispenser is not triggered.

Description

Temporary detention facility

The invention relates to a device according to the preamble of claim 1.

It has already been considered to fix the perpetrator immediately after a bank robbery by blocking the revolving exit door or the two doors of an exit lock while the perpetrator is about to flee through them. In practice, however, such measures are avoided in order not to endanger customers, employees and passers-by if the perpetrator locked up between the doors loses his nerve and should make use of a firearm. In addition, such an escape blockade would not provide effective protection against intrusion through a poorly secured access door.

The above-mentioned risk of a perpetrator locked up between blocked doors would also apply with regard to theft of lightning from shops with high-quality consumer goods such as photographic equipment, watches and jewelry, insofar as such shops are equipped with a revolving door or with a double-door windscreen. With normal equipment with only one door, on the other hand, the perpetrator can seize and escape the goods presented to him for inspection before the surprised seller can initiate promising persecution or other aid measures.

In recognition of these circumstances, the present invention is based on the technical problem of creating a device of the generic type which noticeably increases the prospects, to be able to fix surprise perpetrators in fla¬ granti without endangering the environment.

The basic solution to this problem arises from the main claim, with regard to further training, from the subclaims, which in some cases also appear to be worthy of protection, and supplemented by the following description and its summary at the end.

The solution according to the invention in accordance with the priority German patent application 1 96 0 <079.5 of February 5, 1996, to which priority is given, to which reference is also made to the disclosure of the present invention, therefore makes use of a tear-resistant network such as that in a smaller size for personal defense against the attack by, for example, a violent offender or a fighting dog, for example by pyrotechnic delivery from a hand-held cartridge is described in its own WO 95/00814 AI. Furthermore, especially with regard to the deployment of a network of larger dimensions, reference is made in full to DE-OS 4 437 412 for supplementary disclosure of the present invention; only that the dispenser for deploying such a network is now stationary above the predicted route of intrusion or escape of the perpetrator, typically in the endangered area, preferably monitored with identification techniques, in front of a door or in the access area to, for example, a cash register or Vault system. After the system has been released via an arming switch (preferably by means of a key switch or by means of a remote control in the course of arming an already existing alarm system), the network is triggered at the push of a button, or automatically e.g. when the motion sensor of a robbery signal system is triggered that the perpetrator passes.

The triggering, in particular the automatic triggering, of the network can, however, be prevented by a person passing through the detection area of the network to be deployed who is authorized to pass through, like a salesperson who does business owner or a security guard at night. For this purpose, the authorized person (in contrast to the perpetrator) is equipped with an electronic identifier, which is preferably a passive HF-ID transponder with inductive coupling, such as that from Texas Instruments (actually for injection into the body by breeding cattle for the individual automatic feed preparation) under the brand "TIRIS". Such a passive magnetic transponder can be attached to the clothing of the authorized person, or the transponder is welded into an identification card carried by the authorized person or glued to it In addition to the trigger sensor for deploying the network, a reader is then installed in the monitored zone which emits a high-frequency field for activating the transponder and thus for querying its individual identifier, if this currently registered identifier is not authorized for entering this room is stored in the reading device of this room t, then the triggering of the trigger sensor leads to the activation of the network dispenser in order to use the unauthorized person while at the same time triggering an alarm signal or alarming a security company.

The perpetrator is thrown over the head and upper body diagonally to vertically from above, so that he panics, gets tangled in it and finally stumbles. Even if it remains uninjured, it is nevertheless wrapped up on all sides and is therefore temporarily immobilized and in any case totally unsettled, that is, its manipulation possibilities are extremely limited. It can also be provided that the first network is followed by a second one in order to finally deprive the offender of the involuntary hope of a quick escape from the (first) network and thereby unsettle him even more. The networked in this way can thereupon be without great resistance from courageous passers-by or through the Network triggers alerted neighboring businessmen to be arrested until security officers arrive.

With regard to the design of the network, reference is made in full to the company's own utility model No. 295 09 795 and in addition to today's parallel utility model application "Network for a facility for the temporary determination of an offender". It is folded into the reception area of a network donor, which - together with a cartridge or an airbag gas generator (for generating the reaction gas pressure) to accelerate the unfolding centrifugal weights, which, however, can also be applied electromagnetically, for example - can be retrofitted as a kit using simple handles to make the dispenser ready for operation again.

The invention will now be explained with reference to the drawing. In the drawing shows

1 shows a basic illustration of the arrangement of a stationary network dispenser with a spatially remote trigger sensor,

2 shows a clearly asymmetrical deployment area with additional chicane in the effective area for the network, brought out from a dispenser according to FIG.

3 the inconspicuous installation of the network dispenser together with the trigger sensor above an easily penetrable weak point in the suspended ceiling of a room to be protected and

4 shows a network which is instead deployed not from above but from below.

A network dispenser 11 can be designed to be portable and self-sufficient, for example integrated in a transport case with built-in battery for operation, which is also used for quick assembly by means of latching or magnetic holders. Such a suitcase can then be quickly and unproblematically attached over the escape door of a room or building for security officers be in which there is a violent offender and from which, for example, an alarm system or another emergency call was triggered. In the installation example according to FIG. 1, a net dispenser 11 is mounted prophylactically stationary above the predestined escape door 12 of a shop 13, which is sketched in the drawing with an exhibition or sales counter 14. In this example, the dispenser 11 can be activated by means of a key switch 15. In the event of lightning theft or similar robbery, the seller only needs to press one of possibly several easily accessible activation buttons 16 installed at the counter 14 and / or at other locations in the locality 13 to prepare for the triggering of the network dispenser 11. In the drawing the buttons 16 are wired to the system; To simplify the installation, however, a radio or infrared link can also be implemented as a control signal connection.

The trigger itself only occurs when the perpetrator crosses the response characteristic 18 of a passage sensor 19 on his escape route 17, which is, for example, a light barrier or preferably an proximity detector in the form of a radar or an infrared Sensor can act. Its response characteristic 18 crosses the effective area 20, along which the net is thrown towards the refugee while unfolding. In any case, when the net dispenser 11 is triggered, the person to be fixed is currently in an effective, optimal position relative to the installation location and orientation of the net dispenser 11. Its lightning-fast net application, which is initiated with explosive, is now activated by the sensor 19, because of the manual actuation of the activation button 16 the automatic trigger function of the sensor 19 has been released. The effective area 20 in the monitored room 13 is expediently oriented in such a way that not only the perpetrator is caught by the network, but that the net centrifugal weights also wrap around furnishings such as armrests or banisters. to irritate and immobilize the refugees. In this sense, the arrangement of a decorative chicane such as a large-grown prickly pear potted plant in the effective area 20 of the network is particularly effective.

In order to obtain help to hold the offender in use until the arrival of police officers or security services, an alarm device 21 (FIG. 1) is expediently activated at the same time by actuating the trigger button 16, from which the security services are connected via wire or radio can be alarmed. However, this installation is in particular also designed to transmit signals to call devices 22 in neighboring shops 13. In this way, neighboring business people can use the call devices 22 to organize themselves into a self-help group in order to bridge the time span until the police arrives, in view of the offender who is still at work, in check.

The dispenser 11 is not readily recognizable as such, for example as a result of a camouflaging cover hood or as a result of its installation in, for example, the pot-shaped housing of a ceiling spotlight, so that the perpetrator cannot evade his effective area 20. Such a camouflage hood made of light porous foam such as Styrofoam is lifted off directly from the net by applying gas pressure or by the applied centrifugal weights, in order not to impair the unfolding of the net. For the removal of a more solid camouflage cover, an additional cartridge can be provided which, when the system is triggered, ignites almost simultaneously, possibly a little earlier, and supplies reaction gas for throwing off the hood, before the other cartridge immediately afterwards, to deploy the centrifugal weights for unfolding the net. With a light covering, however, the exit energy of the pyrotechnically driven centrifugal weights is sufficient to penetrate or throw off the obstacle to pulling out and unfolding the net.

In the variant according to FIG. 3, the network dispenser 11 is combined with the trigger sensor 19 to form a mounting unit via an installation frame 23 which is truncated pyramid-shaped, for example made of flat iron. The sensor 19 is pivotally mounted in a holding bracket 24 fastened to the frame 23 in order to bring its response characteristic 18 into intersection with the effective area 20 for wetting depending on the installation height in critical path 17. The mounting frame 23 lies with its base over the panel 25 of a suspended ceiling 26, possibly with the interposition of a support frame (if the fields between the suspensions 27 are much wider than the frame base and the panels 25 should only be mechanically resilient; in Drawing not considered). In the case of a more stable panel 25, as can be seen from the drawing, a predetermined breaking surface is turned out or otherwise weakened in the suspended ceiling 26 in front of the net dispenser 11.

From the hollow cylindrical or ring-shaped receiving space 28 for the folded net, which is open in the direction of the effective area 20, protrude at the bottom, flared in the shape of a funnel against the central axis of the effective area 20, sleeves 29 for damaging the reaction gases and for guiding the centrifugal weights for the axial extraction and radial clamping of the network from its storage space 28. With regard to the equipment and function of these sleeves 29, reference is made to the own DE-OS 44 37 412, where such sleeves 29 are located outside of the room 28 and further back. In deviation from that implementation example, the network to be deployed can also be deployed by means of radially arranged trapezoidal soft rubber centrifugal weights, cf. today's parallel application cited above.

The reaction chamber 30 for the electromagnetically triggered piercing of a propellant gas cartridge triggered here by the sensor 19 (which, however, with the appropriate explosive material is also directly electronic). can be ignited) is located centrally behind the receiving space 28, projecting through the mounting frame 23. In the center of a ring-shaped network receiving space 28, an active substance container 31 can also be arranged, in addition to the one that has just been inserted through light or sound stimuli or through the application of irritant or adhesive fluid (sprayed out by the cartridge reaction gases) to irritate and immobilize.

What is illustrated above primarily with regard to securing against unauthorized entry or exit from a building 13 can also relate to mobile rooms 13 in the context of the present invention, for example box-closed delivery vans or overseas freight containers. Then the network dispenser 11 is connected to the vehicle network or equipped with its own electrical energy supply from a battery and arranged inside or outside (again covered) above a door 12 to the interior 13. The arming and the trigger preparation (corresponding to the functions of the switch 15 and the button 16 in FIG. 1 explained above) can then be carried out remotely, for example, from the dashboard of the vehicle or by radio. Network donors attached to the driver's and passenger's door of emergency and value transport vehicles are also an effective defense against rioters or threats such as robbers or kidnappers.

Under various environmental conditions, in particular in the case of very high or heavily adjusted rooms and outdoors, it is expedient to mount the network dispenser 11 underfloor according to FIG. It can be equipped with an integrated proximity sensor 19, for example a high-frequency sensor, the spherical directional characteristic of which coincides roughly with the effective range of the network dispenser 11; or a trigger sensor 19 'is designed apart from the network dispenser 11 but in its effective area, for example as a contact mat, as also taken into account in FIG. The As sketched, the effective range can be oriented somewhat asymmetrically with regard to the position of the external sensor 19 '. Since the perpetrator 33 is now definitely not caught in the center of the spread net 32, it is expedient to promote its tight wetting on all sides by bringing together the centrifugal weights 34 which have just been used to stretch the net 32. For this purpose, soft and elastic thin guiding lines 35 can be provided, which are clamped between the centrifugal weights 34 or run along the edge of the net 32. They are stretched when the net 32 is stretched and shrink again after the centrifugal forces have decayed. Instead or in addition, for the rapid pulling together of the net 32 around the asymmetrically inserted perpetrator 33, a pull cord 36 which is stationary and runs to the net 32 is advantageous; especially if their effect is not limited to a reaction to the attempt to escape by the perpetrator 33, but rather is actively designed, in that the pull cord 36 is wound onto a reel 37, for example by means of a battery-operated small motor, which is also advantageously installed camouflaged under the floor at the network dispenser 11 is. After a brief delay in reaction, it then pulls the cord 36 deployed with the net 32 back again, and thereby the net 32 tightly together around the perpetrator 33.

Claims

Expectations

1. A device for arresting a perpetrator, characterized in that it ah: on immobile or mobile rooms (13) near an area to be protected or via odsr under a typical penetration or escape route, dispenser (11) stationary for a means of Schleu¬ the catch net to be deployed is designed.

2. Device according to claim 1, characterized in that the dispenser (11) is equipped with a reaction chamber (30) for the gas of an electromagnetically pierceable or electrically ignitable propellant gas cartridge

3. Device according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that it is combined with at least one also stationary trigger sensor (19), the response characteristics (18) crosses the effective range (20) of their network dispenser (11).

4. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the dispenser (11) and a trigger sensor (19) are combined to form an assembly unit.

5. Device according to claim 4, characterized in that a mounting frame (23) for holding the dispenser (11) and sensor (19) is provided.

6. Device according to claim S, characterized in that the built-in ratons (23) is designed for support above a suspended ceiling (26).

7. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that it is equipped with a key switch (15) for arming.

8. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that it is manually operated with a direct or remote control release button (16) for the operational readiness of a trigger sensor (19) or for immediate triggering of the dispenser (11)

9. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the dispenser (11) is hidden behind a cladding which can be penetrated by the centrifugal weights brought out by means of explosive for tensioning the network

10. Device according to one of claims 1 to 8, characterized in that the dispenser (11), each with a cartridge for breaking or throwing off a camouflaging panel in front of the concealed or camouflaged dispenser (11) and for directly following Aus¬ bring equipped with centrifugal weights for unfolding the network

11. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the activation of an alarm device (21) for responding to call devices distributed over the neighborhood (22) is provided for triggering the dispenser (11).

12. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that in addition to the trigger sensor (19) a reader for an ident transponder or the like active or passive contactless identity detection device is provided, which upon detection of certain, predetermined ident information blocked triggering of the dispenser (11).

13. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the network dispenser (11) is installed in the housing of a ceiling lighting

14. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that a battery-operated network dispenser (11) is housed in a transport and assembly case for variable rapid installation

15. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the network dispenser (11) itself is equipped with a trigger sensor (19)

16. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the network dispenser (11) is installed underground

17. The device according to claim 16, characterized in that a step contact mat is provided as a trigger sensor (19 ')

18. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the network (32) is equipped with rubber cords (35)

19. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the network (32) is equipped with at least one stationary draw cord (36).

20. Device according to claim 19, characterized in that the drawstring (36) is attached to a winding-up reel (37)