Basic Home Security Requirements - Door Locks!

Man has given top priority to his security from the very beginning. To protect his hard earned wealth, his money, man found a way by means of locks. Locks are basically mechanical fastening devices which can be used on a door, window, vehicle or any containers which restricting access to the area enclosed. Generally it can be released or set freed by means of unlocking mechanisms such as lock key or key combinations.

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Theft knots, or Gordian knots

In early days, people used to protect their belongings by hiding their hard earned things in some secrete places. But, man realized that, theft was taking place. The hard earned things go missing and there was no proper security. So, man came up with a solution to this problem, by introducing some means of locks. Man started the invasion of locks by putting a special kind of knots, like theft knots, or Gordian knots. It was just a beginning of his inventions for a secured home.

Wooden & Pin Lock

Man started using locks made out of wood, some 4000 years ago in ancient Egypt. Pin lock, a special kind of locks was seen used. The lock was strung on a rope hanging out of a hole in a door. A wooden cylinder with a hole drilled through its axis was the key. The length of the cylinder played critical factor. The key is inserted into hole and bolt is pushed to the correct distance. To lock the door, one needs to just pull the rope to extract the key cylinder and simultaneously pulling the bolt till it is closed. Till today, these types of locks are still in use. The main dangerous thing about this lock is that, one can push the rope into the hole. This causes the lock to open without any difficulty.

Warded lock

The warded lock wrote almost a new chapter in the history of locking systems. It is also still in use. It is the perhaps the first lock design to have a key recognizable to a modern western person. It has got a mechanism by which, the lock uses lock puzzles to handle locking and unlocking mechanisms.

Mechanical and electromechanical locks

Locks are of two types; Mechanical and electromechanical locks. They are operated by turning some forms of removable keys; mechanical locks are opened and locked by a set of special keys meant for that particular lock. Single locks less security, because they can be easily opened. The electromechanical lock usually operates via card readers and magnetic power.

5 lever lock

There is another type of lock, which is more secured, and which can give high security to home. 5 lever lock, is a special type of locks mostly recommended by the police personals for home security. In this type of locks, lever mechanism is used to open and close the locks. These locks are some times called as “Chubb locks”. The recent models in this type have got bolts of 20 mm rather than of 14 mm which is of old British standards. These locks are still in use in most parts of world, they are adopted as a standard locking mechanism by most of the insurance companies.

Safety Door

Normally, house owners put up separate iron door outside of the entrance. But, it is better to fix the safety door inside the house, so that, in case, if an intruder breaks the first door, then he will require extra time to break open the second safety door.

Today, security systems gain utter importance, because there is no safest place in the world. We look out for best and quality security systems for securing our valuable things. Locks play an important role in protecting valuable things, along with other security devices such as, cameras, alarms and other security related devices. In fact, locks get top priority among all other security systems.