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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 1983
Filed:
Oct. 28, 1981
Richard J Chester, Kennedy, NY (US);
American Locker Security Systems, Inc., Jamestown, NY (US);
Abstract
A post office locker for use in the delivery of both letters and packages to tenants of a multiple tenant building or the like, wherein packages are stored in appropriately sized storage cabinets to which access may be gained by intended recipients by use of access keys placed by a mailman in the letter boxes of such recipients. Each cabinet is fitted with a latch mechanism permitting recipients to return doors of cabinets from which packages have been removed to locked condition in a manner providing for the 'capture' of the access keys until removed by a mailman for subsequent use. Preferably, the doors are fitted with return mechanisms providing for locking of such doors automatically upon return thereof into closed condition.