Frederick S. Holmes - Bank Vault Engineer

[VaultDoors]

I just finished the Frederick S, Holmes Wikipedia article. Please review and let me know if any changes are needed, thx!

[Safeone]

I just finished the Frederick S, Holmes Wikipedia article. Please review and let me know if any changes are needed, thx!

Wow ! If only all Wiki articles were published in this way. Going to read it all again later and thanks for posting the link :-)

[Cepasaccus]

Awesome! Published in only two days, but you must have put a lot of days work into it.

[VaultDoors]

Here are two vault doors stacked on top of each other at the Bureau of Printing & Engraving. I suspect the top vault door is an emergency door used for ventilation, but I've never seen them stacked like this.

[safeman]

Here are two vault doors stacked on top of each other at the Bureau of Printing & Engraving. I suspect the top vault door is an emergency door used for ventilation, but I've never seen them stacked like this.

This is an extra-large Plenum Ventilation system as used when staff are actually working within the room during the day such as Bank of England Regional Cash Centres.



For normal sized rooms the system is housed in the vestibule and retracted (sometimes automatically) as the door is closed. If the Day Gate is used it suitably shortened to accommodate the system.
In addition the height of the vestibule is sometimes increased to allow access for bullion pallet trucks in main cash centres..

[safeman]

[QUOTE=safeman;33077]This is an extra-large Plenum Ventilation system as used when staff are actually working within the room during the day such as Bank of England Regional Cash Centres.



I have just come across an appropriate photograph of a Tann Heavy Door which shows the ventilation cowl ready to be swung under the vestibule.

[mercury]

I just finished the Frederick S, Holmes Wikipedia article. Please review and let me know if any changes are needed, thx!

Terrific article, thank you for taking the time to compose it.

I took the liberty of making one small alteration, changing a single word for the sake of clarity.

The original stated that the combination dials were located inside the vault on jamb controlled vaults. I changed it to say the combination locks are located inside the vault.

…Mark

[VaultDoors]

Thx for the update! I encourage anyone to add, edit, delete the Frederick S. Holmes Wikipedia article. I just got it started and hopefully others will contribute what they know.

[Cepasaccus]

I found only one patent with him as inventor: US901710

[wylk]

I found only one patent with him as inventor: US901710

Here are a few more Holmes US patents -

438,236: Electric Safe-Lock

477,898: Electric Lock

557,389: Removable Sill for Vaults or Safes

620,073: Safe