Patent Application
20240254825
The present invention generally relates to the field of safe covers. More specifically, the present invention relates to a novel fireproof safe cover designed to offer additional protection against excessive heat and water. The cover is made of fireproof material and features a zippered front surface to maintain quick and easy access to the safe without removing the cover. The cover prevents severe damage to the safe and its contents during a house fire, office fire, or other emergency situations. Accordingly, the present disclosure makes specific reference thereto. Nonetheless, it is to be appreciated that aspects of the present invention are also equally applicable to other like applications, devices, and methods of manufacture.
By way of background, safes, including gun safes, are specifically designed to safely store important documents, valuables, and firearms while preventing unauthorized access. Safes are commonly used in homes and business areas to provide a level of protection for these items. However, even when stored in a safe, there is still a risk of damage to the stored items during a fire and excessive temperature. More specifically, fire poses a significant threat to the items stored in safes. While the safe itself may offer some level of fire resistance, conventional safes are not sufficient to fully protect the contents therein from destruction. As a result, individuals may face the need to replace important and expensive items that have been damaged or destroyed in a fire, despite being stored in a safe. This causes a financial burden on individuals and requires a lot of effort and time to replace such items.
With gun safes, there is an additional concern related to ammunition. When exposed to high temperatures, ammunition stored in gun safes can explode, posing a serious safety hazard during a fire. This further emphasizes the need for effective fire protection measures for gun safes. Conventional safes, although providing a degree of protection against burglary or unauthorized access, often fail to withstand the extreme environmental conditions of a real fire. The intense heat and flames generated during a fire can compromise the integrity of the safe, enabling heat and smoke to penetrate the interior and damage the contents stored therein. Individuals desire ways of improving fire resistance capabilities of safes to prevent damage caused due to fire and excessive heat.
Therefore, there exists a long felt need in the art for a fireproof accessory such as a fireproof cover for safes. There is also a long felt need in the art for a fireproof cover for safes that provides enhanced protection against high temperatures, flames, and smoke. Additionally, there is a long felt need in the art for a fireproof gun safe cover that can cover a safe to protect the safe from fire and excessive temperature. Moreover, there is a long felt need in the art for a fireproof gun safe cover that prevents ammunition stored in a gun safe from being exposed to fire, flames, and high temperatures. Further, there is a long felt need in the art for fireproof covers that cover safes for significantly reducing the risk of damage to firearms, important documents, and other valuables stored in the safes during a fire. Finally, there is a long felt need in the art for a fireproof gun safe cover that prevents severe damage to the safe and its contents during a house fire, office fire, or other emergency conditions.
The subject matter disclosed and claimed herein, in one embodiment thereof, comprises a fireproof safe cover for covering a safe such as a gun safe to protect against fire, excessive heat, and smoke. The fireproof safe cover features a rear wall, a pair of side walls, a top surface, a zippered front surface, a pair of zippers along the edges of the zippered front surface, wherein the front surface is sewn along the top edge thereof and is configured to be unfastened using the zippers to function as a flap for accessing the door of the gun safe. The cover having a plurality of openings for enabling electrical wiring to pass through the cover to connect to the gun safe and can include one or more recessed and reinforced areas for supporting the cover and enabling users to access the safe.
In this manner, the fireproof safe cover of the present invention accomplishes all of the forgoing objectives and provides individuals with a fireproof cover for safes such as gun safes. The cover is directly slipped over a safe to cover the safe and is made of fire-resistant materials to provide enhanced protection against high temperatures, flames, and smoke. The cover allows authorized access of the safe while maintaining protection against excessive heat, fire, and other emergencies.
The following presents a simplified summary in order to provide a basic understanding of some aspects of the disclosed innovation. This summary is not an extensive overview, and it is not intended to identify key/critical elements or to delineate the scope thereof. Its sole purpose is to present some general concepts in a simplified form as a prelude to the more detailed description that is presented later.
The subject matter disclosed and claimed herein, in one embodiment thereof, comprises a fireproof safe cover for protecting a safe such as a gun safe against fire, excessive heat, and smoke. The fireproof safe cover further comprising a generally cuboidal configuration including a rear wall, a pair of side walls, a top surface, a zippered front surface, and a pair of zippers along the edges of the zippered front surface, wherein the front surface is sewn along the top edge thereof and is configured to be unfastened using the zippers to function as a flap for accessing the door of the gun safe, the cover being flexible and capable of being slipped directly over the gun safe, the rear wall having a plurality of openings for enabling electrical wiring to pass through the cover to connect to the gun safe, and one or more personalized logo, indicia, or embroidery on one or more walls and surfaces of the cover for personalization.
In yet another embodiment, each zipper has a zipper tab, wherein each zipper tab is designed to be pulled towards an open bottom of the cover to fasten the zippered front surface, thereby completely covering the gun safe enclosed by the cover.
In a further embodiment, the cover includes a layer of one of fiberglass, Kevlar, or other heat-resistant synthetic fibers and another layer of an insulating material for providing additional heat resistance.
In a further embodiment, a fireproof cover for protecting a gun safe from fire, excessive temperature, and other emergencies is disclosed. The fireproof cover includes a flexible cover with a closed orientation, the cover having a rear wall, a pair of side walls, a top surface, and a zippered front surface with zippers for fastening, the cover being directly slippable over the gun safe with an open bottom accommodating the gun safe, the cover being aligned with the top surface of the gun safe and gradually lowered to drape down the walls of the gun safe, wherein in an installed orientation covering the gun safe, the rear wall of the cover conforming to the rear wall of the gun safe, the side walls conforming to the side walls of the gun safe, the top surface conforming to the top surface of the gun safe, and the zippered front surface covering the door of the gun safe.
In a further embodiment, the fireproof safe cover includes one or more recessed areas designed to accommodate various features and protrusions of the safe, one or more reinforced areas positioned and designed to align with the protrusions of the safe, wherein the front surface can remain in place while the user accesses the features and protrusions of the safe through the recessed areas and reinforced areas.
Numerous benefits and advantages of this invention will become apparent to those skilled in the art to which it pertains upon reading and understanding of the following detailed specification.
To the accomplishment of the foregoing and related ends, certain illustrative aspects of the disclosed innovation are described herein in connection with the following description and the annexed drawings. These aspects are indicative, however, of but a few of the various ways in which the principles disclosed herein can be employed and are intended to include all such aspects and their equivalents. Other advantages and novel features will become apparent from the following detailed description when considered in conjunction with the drawings.
The description refers to provided drawings in which similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout the different views, and in which:
The innovation is now described with reference to the drawings, wherein like reference numerals are used to refer to like elements throughout. In the following description, for purposes of explanation, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding thereof. It may be evident, however, that the innovation can be practiced without these specific details. In other instances, well-known structures and devices are shown in block diagram form in order to facilitate a description thereof. Various embodiments are discussed hereinafter. It should be noted that the figures are described only to facilitate the description of the embodiments. They are not intended as an exhaustive description of the invention and do not limit the scope of the invention. Additionally, an illustrated embodiment need not have all the aspects or advantages shown. Thus, in other embodiments, any of the features described herein from different embodiments may be combined.
As noted above, there is a long felt need in the art for a fireproof accessory such as a fireproof cover for safes. There is also a long felt need in the art for a fireproof cover for safes that provides enhanced protection against high temperatures, flames, and smoke. Additionally, there is a long felt need in the art for a fireproof gun safe cover that can cover a safe to protect the safe from fire and excessive temperature. Moreover, there is a long felt need in the art for a fireproof gun safe cover that prevents ammunition stored in a gun safe from being exposed to fire, flames, and high temperatures. Further, there is a long felt need in the art for fireproof covers that cover safes for significantly reducing the risk of damage to firearms, important documents, and other valuables stored in the safes during a fire. Finally, there is a long felt need in the art for a fireproof gun safe cover that prevents severe damage to the safe and its contents during a house fire, office fire, or other emergency conditions.
The present invention, in one exemplary embodiment, is a fireproof cover for protecting a gun safe and items stored therein from fire, excessive temperature, and other emergencies. The fireproof cover having a rear wall, a pair of side walls, a top surface, and a zippered front surface with zippers for fastening, the cover being directly slippable over the gun safe with an open bottom accommodating the gun safe, the cover being aligned with the top surface of the gun safe and gradually lowered to drape down the walls of the gun safe, wherein in an installed orientation covering the gun safe, the rear wall of the cover conforming to the rear wall of the gun safe, the side walls conforming to the side walls of the gun safe, the top surface conforming to the top surface of the gun safe, and the zippered front surface covering the door of the gun safe.
Referring initially to the drawings,
The gun safe cover 100 is designed in different sizes and colors for covering gun safes of different dimensions and variations. The cover 100 has an open bottom 120, thereby creating a cavity formed by the walls 102, 104, 106, 108 for accommodating a gun safe. Further, cover 100 is made of fire-resistant material to protect a safe and item stored therein from fire, water, excessive heat, and other emergencies. The rear wall 102 of the gun safe cover 100 has a plurality of openings 122 for enabling electrical wiring to pass through the cover 100 to connect to the gun safe.
The zipper tabs 124, 126 are pulled towards the open bottom 120 (shown through arrows A and B respectively) of the cover 100 to fasten the front surface 108 to completely cover a safe. The safe cover 100 can have personalized logo, indicia or embroidery 128 on one or more walls and surfaces for creating a personalization in the safe cover 100. In the preferred embodiment, the fireproof safe cover 100 can be manufactured from one or more fiberglass, Kevlar, or other heat-resistant synthetic fibers. Furthermore, an insulation layer is incorporated into the cover 100 (as illustrated in
The cover 100 is oriented such that in installed orientation covering the safe 202 as illustrated in
Certain terms are used throughout the following description and claims to refer to particular features or components. As one skilled in the art will appreciate, different persons may refer to the same feature or component by different names. This document does not intend to distinguish between components or features that differ in name but not structure or function. As used herein “fireproof safe cover”, “fireproof gun safe cover”, “gun safe cover”, safe cover”, and “cover” are interchangeable and refer to the fireproof safe cover 100, 600 of the present invention.
Notwithstanding the forgoing, the fireproof safe cover 100, 600 of the present invention can be of any suitable size and configuration as is known in the art without affecting the overall concept of the invention, provided that it accomplishes the above stated objectives. One of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that the fireproof safe cover 100, 600 as shown in the FIGS. are for illustrative purposes only, and that many other sizes and shapes of the fireproof safe cover 100, 600 are well within the scope of the present disclosure. Although the dimensions of the fireproof safe cover 100, 600 are important design parameters for user convenience, the fireproof safe cover 100, 600 may be of any size that ensures optimal performance during use and/or that suits the user's needs and/or preferences.
Various modifications and additions can be made to the exemplary embodiments discussed without departing from the scope of the present invention. While the embodiments described above refer to particular features, the scope of this invention also includes embodiments having different combinations of features and embodiments that do not include all of the described features. Accordingly, the scope of the present invention is intended to embrace all such alternatives, modifications, and variations as fall within the scope of the claims, together with all equivalents thereof.
What has been described above includes examples of the claimed subject matter. It is, of course, not possible to describe every conceivable combination of components or methodologies for purposes of describing the claimed subject matter, but one of ordinary skill in the art may recognize that many further combinations and permutations of the claimed subject matter are possible. Accordingly, the claimed subject matter is intended to embrace all such alterations, modifications and variations that fall within the spirit and scope of the appended claims. Furthermore, to the extent that the term “includes” is used in either the detailed description or the claims, such term is intended to be inclusive in a manner similar to the term “comprising” as “comprising” is interpreted when employed as a transitional word in a claim.
The present application claims priority to, and the benefit of, U.S. Provisional Application No. 63/442,558, which was filed on Feb. 1, 2023 and is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
| Number | Date | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 63442558 | Feb 2023 | US |
