A latch for securing a component to a track in a base of air cargo equipment, such as a pallet or the floor of a unit load device. The latch includes a rigid support configured to be attached at the bottom edge of the component. The latch also includes a handle. The handle rotates relative to the support between an open position and a closed position. The handle uses a rotationally tapered locking cam to secure the component to the track. In one embodiment, the component is a door, such as a fabric curtain.

A Theft Deterrent Anchor (1) is affixed immovably to a surface position proximate a concrete or asphalt (10) parking place and has a hardened chain (3) that is lockable through a motorcycle wheel to prevent the motorcycles theft by being carried or towed away. The hardened chain (3) is attached to the Theft Deterrent Anchor (1) by a padlock (2) and can only be removed from the locking position through the wheel. The Theft Deterrent Anchor is anchored in two places to the concrete or asphalt (10) below preventing anything or anyone to pick up or move it. Thus, security of the two-wheeled or three-wheeled vehicle (4) is provided by the device.

A protective cover that deters theft and destruction of property through prevention of unsanctioned opening of a camming door handle. The device utilizes a cross-shaped design to partially cover a cam bar up to its pin hinge and the hasp to which it is attached. Lateral walls perpendicular to and at the intersection of the cross-shaped front wall enclose the hasp from the sides, and a perpendicular wall with aperture axially aligned with those of the hasp serves to connect the device to the hasp. A rounded bracket on the backside of the cover prevents the use of the cover as a lever to pry at or twist the hasp. The cover is installed by means of sliding the apparatus over the cam bar and through the bracket until centered upon the door hasp, at which time it may be held in place through use of an adequate locking mechanism.

Parking Brake Mechanism, particularly suited for an All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV) with a security feature is manually engaged by foot or hand and is automatically disengaged by spring action when the ATV operator presses the vehicle brake pedal to shift the transmission lever into drive. The present invention also allows the operator to secure the vehicle with the parking brake engaged. The vehicle brake mechanism is activated and held on by the parking brake unit; therefore, immobilizing the vehicle.

A wrench for securing, actuating and preventing tampering with a fire hydrant is disclosed. In useful embodiments, the wrench can be a two-ended wrench having a loop that encloses a pentagonal opening at either end of an elongated handle, where the handle can include in a nonterminal portion a slot. In a locking mode, the wrench can accept at a first end an actuating nut of the fire hydrant and can be locked in place by inserting a locking arm of a padlock through an eye bolt that is secured to a side of the fire hydrant and inserted through the slot. The wrench can be unlocked and removed, whereupon a second end can be used to turn the actuating nut as well as to remove water outlet caps and adjust nozzles.

A non-mechanical-interfacing electronic switch or a mechanical-interfacing electronic switch are controlled to modulate between an active state and an inactive state based on electronic action. The switch includes an aperture defining an opening in a housing, and the opening defines an insertion path. A transmitter transmits a signal to a receiver along a signal path. To control the non-mechanical-interfacing electronic switch, a mechanical lockout device having a protrusion is inserted through the opening of the aperture along the insertion path. To control the mechanical-interfacing electronic switch, a mechanical control part have a protrusion is moveable to interrupt the signal. Methods of locking the non-mechanical-interfacing electronic switch with the mechanical lockout device as well as methods of locking the mechanical control part of the mechanical interfacing electronic switch with the mechanical lockout device are also provided.

A bar security system is an apparatus that is used to restrict access to a container. The bar security system includes an upper bracket, a lower bracket, an elongated support structure, a locking mechanism, and a height-adjustment assembly. The upper bracket and the lower bracket are structural elements that define reference points of the bar security system and used to secure the bar security system to a container such as, but not limited to, a storage cabinet. The elongated support structure is used to restrain items that are positioned within the container. The locking mechanism is used to prevent unwanted users from accessing the items positioned within the container. The height-adjustment assembly is used to adjust the bar security system so that the bar security system can be used on a container of any size.

A road freight transport security system for a vehicle, is described, which comprises a database; and a portable electronic device running a security application. The security application is configured to prompt a user to carry out a plurality of external security checks of the vehicle, provide a facility for the user to confirm completion of those checks, provide a facility for the user to associate one or more photographs, taken by the portable electronic device, with one or more of the checks, and to upload log data to the database, the log data indicating at least a date and time of completion of the checks. A sensor device is also provided, mounted within a freight area of the vehicle, having one or more sensors, and being operable to communicate an alert to the portable electronic device in the event that an anomaly is detected inside the freight area. In this way, real time detection of security breaches within a freight trailer or container may be achieved. The driver is not required to engage directly with an intruder, and is facilitated in reporting the crime and demonstrating that appropriate precautions had been taken. Accordingly, driver safety may be improved and freight thefts and or losses via contamination reduced.

A multi-function latch and latch bolt includes a pair of mechanical fastener to be installed on a gate for the purpose of holding the gate in closed position, and that a person standing on the inside of the fence can disengage the latch hook bracket from the latch bolt, or disengage the latch bolt from the latch hook bracket in any of which method to unlatch and open the gate from inside the fence even when the outside of the latch is locked. On the other hand, when the latch is not locked on the inside but locked on the outside with an incorporated lock, keyed or combination padlock; then a person standing on the outside of the gate may open the gate if he/she has an appropriate key or knows the combination codes in order to unlock, unlatch and open the gate from outside the fence.

The present invention is a gate latching system for use in securing a pair of cooperating stock gates together. A preferred embodiment of the invention employs a pair of latching devices for securing a pair of overlapping stock gates together in a closed position. An alternate embodiment of the invention is designed with an extended arm for securing a pair of stock gates closed when the stock gates do not overlap. Both pairs of latching devices are designed so that one of the latching devices is bolted to one gate and the other latching device is bolted to the other gate. Each latching device has a u-shaped receiver for receiving a horizontal member of the opposite gate. The horizontal members enter the u-shaped receivers by lifting one of the gates as the gates are being closed and are secure therein by a lid that closes over one receiver.