Guard and locking combination therewith

Abstract

An article of manufacture to eliminate ease of destruction of a slotted hasp and/or staple combination utilized to lock a door, secured together by a padlock, whereby unauthorized entry is prevented. The inventive subject matter includes a pair of spaced rigid members in secured relationship to each other, with each having an aperture placeable in contiguity and alignment with the pocket or cavity of the staple which displaces the void or spacing between the secured members. One species of the invention includes a horizontally-disposed segment at its rear end and which maintains in spaced position the members to each other, the members terminating at their other ends or faces in an open manner in order for a slip-on connection to the staple after the hasp's slot is in placed or closed upon the staple. With such connection, the rear end abuts the staple's bow while the configuration of the guard's faces at its open end cooperates with the form of the hasp. After such slip-on connection, the lock is mounted through the guard's apertures and staple's pocket and thence locked. A snug fitting among staple, hasp, guard, and lock results thereby preventing a cutting tool's work surfaces to engage the soft metal of hasp and/or staple to cut them. The guard may be heat-treated to eliminate soft metal characteristics therein, and thereby be not subject to ordinary modes of soft-metal cutting. Other species of the claimed invention are also shown.