Safe Deposit Boxes for Safe Deposit Boxes Development

The history of safes dates back to the Middle Ages. In the medieval paintings, you can occasionally see a kind of wooden cabinet holding gold and silver jewelry, which is the prototype of the modern safe. Figure 1 for the famous French safe manufacturers FICHE-BAUCHE imitation of the 18th century Louis 15 years of gold and silver jewelry in the wooden safe. This kind of safe is shaped like furniture, no special locks, security is low.

Until 200 years ago in the early 19th century, with the social and economic growth, the safe industry began to develop, in Europe appeared specializing in locks manufacturers. 1818, the British CHUBB company was established (nearly 200 years later today, CHUBB has become the safe industry leaders). In 1825, the French company FICHE-BAUCHE was founded ...... All of these manufacturers then began making safes.

The material of the safe has been changed from wood to a variety of strong metal, but basically to follow the wooden mortise and tenon joint technology or the whole casting, no matter from the appearance and craftsmanship are similar to the furniture at that time, and the precision of the lock is not high.

Figure 3 is an iron safe about 200 years old, the appearance of an ordinary double-door iron cabinet, its door hinges are similar to the wood into the mortise and tenon bit, the production technology is quite high. The development of safes in the United States was a little later than in Europe, but the United States has become a strong producer of safes.

In 1857, the famous S&G (Sargent & Greenleaf) was founded in the United States, and then became one of the world's most famous locks and safes manufacturers. In the late 1850s, the lock industry was still underdeveloped, and although the appearance of safes was changing rapidly, the precision and reliability of locks were not greatly developed.

In the late 1860s, the Americans invented the locking mechanism and multiple locking bolt technology for safes, and the security performance of safes was greatly improved. Figure 6 shows an early safe with a locking mechanism and multiple bolt design that appeared after 1865.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Europeans utilized the Swiss clockwork process to develop a rotary dial combination lock, and only then did a breakthrough occur in safe technology, with confidentiality and security dramatically improved.

The development of locks and safes complement each other, until today, turntable combination locks are still heavily used in the safe industry. Early carousel combination locks and the application of such locks in the safe (dating from about 1900).

In the 1960s and 1970s, because of the rapid changes in semiconductor technology, the industry developed electronic combination locks, which were widely used in various types of safe products. After the LED, LCD digital display used in safes, the user demand for fire prevention also gave birth to a variety of fire prevention products, fingerprint scanning recognition technology development and promote the use of fingerprint locks in the safe, the popularity of the magnetic card derived from the magnetic card-type safes ...... and the types of safes, the simplest function of the original development to the Anti-theft, fire prevention, anti-theft/fire prevention, anti-magnetic, household, commercial, hotel, firearms, documents/data and other almost countless types.