Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1910 — THE NEW ROTATING SAFE. [ARTICLE]

THE NEW ROTATING SAFE.

Vnnlt In ATwayn In When Locked and l« Burglor Proof, The improved melting methods now In the hands of expert burglars in .he form of gas "cutting burners" has so greatly impaired the burglar-proof Qualities of existing safes as to warrant serious attempts to devise some new type that will resist their powerful effects. All the safeguards so far devised in this country against such fcufhers are based on reducing their efficiency by increasing the thickness of the plates. The unique safe shown in the illustrations, the invention of a German saje expert, and already installed in several of that country’s largest banks, is entirely on a different principle. Instead of reducing the efficiency of the burners it makes melting of the metal by such means absolutely impossible. It is a safe divided into two parts, one part being the surrounding con-