Comments on: The DoorKnob Condition Ensures Privacy http://www.ohgizmo.com/2007/07/30/the-doorknob-condition-ensures-privacy/ Deliciously Geeky... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:25:08 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: killer343 http://www.ohgizmo.com/2007/07/30/the-doorknob-condition-ensures-privacy/comment-page-1/#comment-397623 killer343 Sat, 26 Sep 2009 11:35:28 +0000 http://www.ohgizmo.com/2007/07/30/the-doorknob-condition-ensures-privacy/#comment-397623 This is stupid thing I ever seen This is stupid thing I ever seen

]]> By: Lacy757 http://www.ohgizmo.com/2007/07/30/the-doorknob-condition-ensures-privacy/comment-page-1/#comment-397594 Lacy757 Sat, 26 Sep 2009 05:27:40 +0000 http://www.ohgizmo.com/2007/07/30/the-doorknob-condition-ensures-privacy/#comment-397594 This is really very good way to convey about privacy condition.But i was not knowing about this.Thanks for telling ,atleast from know i m not going to disturb anybody. This is really very good way to convey about privacy condition.But i was not knowing about this.Thanks for telling ,atleast from know i m not going to disturb anybody.

]]> By: Lacy757 http://www.ohgizmo.com/2007/07/30/the-doorknob-condition-ensures-privacy/comment-page-1/#comment-397593 Lacy757 Sat, 26 Sep 2009 05:25:21 +0000 http://www.ohgizmo.com/2007/07/30/the-doorknob-condition-ensures-privacy/#comment-397593 This is very good way to tell any body about privacy condition.But i was not knowing about this.Thanks for telling, At least from know i will not disturb anybody. This is very good way to tell any body about privacy condition.But i was not knowing about this.Thanks for telling, At least from know i will not disturb anybody.

]]> By: James Dalton http://www.ohgizmo.com/2007/07/30/the-doorknob-condition-ensures-privacy/comment-page-1/#comment-340533 James Dalton Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:18:25 +0000 http://www.ohgizmo.com/2007/07/30/the-doorknob-condition-ensures-privacy/#comment-340533 The simple solution to this is have a lock on the door. This means handle or no handle, your pesky roomate wont be getting in. It has the "cool" factor but it is pretty pointless. The simple solution to this is have a lock on the door. This means handle or no handle, your pesky roomate wont be getting in. It has the “cool” factor but it is pretty pointless.

]]> By: So Sad http://www.ohgizmo.com/2007/07/30/the-doorknob-condition-ensures-privacy/comment-page-1/#comment-339932 So Sad Fri, 17 Aug 2007 06:30:35 +0000 http://www.ohgizmo.com/2007/07/30/the-doorknob-condition-ensures-privacy/#comment-339932 I wish people would think before they write in a forum. Security risk? Do you think a bathroom lock is a security risk? Please think about it. Pushed in from the outside? Possibly if designed poorly, but can easily be made not to with a simple button latch that has to be pressed in before it can be pulled. Yes, obviously this is an interior/hotel door. Regardless I could break into any interior or exterior door that Home Depot sells if I had on a sturdy shoe. This is just a slick and more complicated way of a bathroom knob's lock. In one you press a button and the knob is inoperable, and in the other you pull so that the knob is inoperable. If you want the poor man's version of this go to a hardware store and buy a $10 bathroom door knob set and install it. Then when your roommate tries to open the door and it won't turn, he/she will get the point. I wish people would think before they write in a forum.

Security risk? Do you think a bathroom lock is a security risk? Please think about it.

Pushed in from the outside? Possibly if designed poorly, but can easily be made not to with a simple button latch that has to be pressed in before it can be pulled.

Yes, obviously this is an interior/hotel door. Regardless I could break into any interior or exterior door that Home Depot sells if I had on a sturdy shoe.

This is just a slick and more complicated way of a bathroom knob’s lock. In one you press a button and the knob is inoperable, and in the other you pull so that the knob is inoperable.

If you want the poor man’s version of this go to a hardware store and buy a $10 bathroom door knob set and install it. Then when your roommate tries to open the door and it won’t turn, he/she will get the point.

]]> By: Dwindle http://www.ohgizmo.com/2007/07/30/the-doorknob-condition-ensures-privacy/comment-page-1/#comment-339697 Dwindle Sun, 12 Aug 2007 01:28:37 +0000 http://www.ohgizmo.com/2007/07/30/the-doorknob-condition-ensures-privacy/#comment-339697 Could the knob be pulled out from the outside? No, it would only work in one direction - it would be too difficult to make it bidirectional. Could a person push it from the outside? It could be easily designed to only slide when the inside knob is being pulled. Safety hazard? Well, kinda. Having a knob on a locked door to force yourself in helps, but a quality knob on a quality door is impossible to open with human force. It could be designed to be opened with a pin like most bathroom doorknobs, or a larger hole something like a pen could fit in. This device would only be useful for an interior knob around people you trust. As a hotel knob, it would require a slot like the one pictured a universal key could open. Could the knob be pulled out from the outside? No, it would only work in one direction – it would be too difficult to make it bidirectional.

Could a person push it from the outside? It could be easily designed to only slide when the inside knob is being pulled.

Safety hazard? Well, kinda. Having a knob on a locked door to force yourself in helps, but a quality knob on a quality door is impossible to open with human force.

It could be designed to be opened with a pin like most bathroom doorknobs, or a larger hole something like a pen could fit in.

This device would only be useful for an interior knob around people you trust. As a hotel knob, it would require a slot like the one pictured a universal key could open.

]]> By: silverdemon http://www.ohgizmo.com/2007/07/30/the-doorknob-condition-ensures-privacy/comment-page-1/#comment-332347 silverdemon Fri, 03 Aug 2007 02:48:07 +0000 http://www.ohgizmo.com/2007/07/30/the-doorknob-condition-ensures-privacy/#comment-332347 You are all missing the point here. This is for an interior room. you can't pull it from the other side on the one. and for a hotel this would be prefect. Yes in theory it could be pulled or pried out but that is a lot of work and it is to show you don't want to be disturbed. It is not to prevent someone from entering. You are all missing the point here. This is for an interior room. you can’t pull it from the other side on the one. and for a hotel this would be prefect. Yes in theory it could be pulled or pried out but that is a lot of work and it is to show you don’t want to be disturbed. It is not to prevent someone from entering.

]]> By: dan http://www.ohgizmo.com/2007/07/30/the-doorknob-condition-ensures-privacy/comment-page-1/#comment-328581 dan Tue, 31 Jul 2007 23:52:47 +0000 http://www.ohgizmo.com/2007/07/30/the-doorknob-condition-ensures-privacy/#comment-328581 Well it was definitely conceived by a design student and not an engineer, but it is fairly good looking. "Can it be forced open should there be an emergency?" As a home builder I can say that this door would be no more difficult to break through than with an average key set. Doors for the most part only give the illusion of security. Most of the composite framed doors used fracture fairly easily. The simplest security for most residential doors is a metal bar (or dead bolt) in to a reinforced door jamb. If your just in a pine 2x4 or 2x6 (like 95% + of you are) most strong 14 year olds boys would be able to kick your door open. If they really want in they could use a window or if really dedicated they could fairly easily come through the roof (on houses with burglar bars). The best security is not to show your wealth, and be a difficult target. Thieves, by their very nature, do not like to work. Make it easier, and more lucrative, to rob a neighbors house. Not yours. Well it was definitely conceived by a design student and not an engineer, but it is fairly good looking.

“Can it be forced open should there be an emergency?”
As a home builder I can say that this door would be no more difficult to break through than with an average key set. Doors for the most part only give the illusion of security.
Most of the composite framed doors used fracture fairly easily. The simplest security for most residential doors is a metal bar (or dead bolt) in to a reinforced door jamb. If your just in a pine 2×4 or 2×6 (like 95% + of you are) most strong 14 year olds boys would be able to kick your door open. If they really want in they could use a window or if really dedicated they could fairly easily come through the roof (on houses with burglar bars).
The best security is not to show your wealth, and be a difficult target. Thieves, by their very nature, do not like to work. Make it easier, and more lucrative, to rob a neighbors house. Not yours.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.ohgizmo.com/2007/07/30/the-doorknob-condition-ensures-privacy/comment-page-1/#comment-328511 Anonymous Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:57:04 +0000 http://www.ohgizmo.com/2007/07/30/the-doorknob-condition-ensures-privacy/#comment-328511 Why not just a dead bolt lock which doesn't use a key to open... Pointless... Why not just a dead bolt lock which doesn’t use a key to open… Pointless…

]]> By: Gorrex http://www.ohgizmo.com/2007/07/30/the-doorknob-condition-ensures-privacy/comment-page-1/#comment-328481 Gorrex Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:13:33 +0000 http://www.ohgizmo.com/2007/07/30/the-doorknob-condition-ensures-privacy/#comment-328481 Simple.. put a small button/switch on the inside which has to be pushed while pulling the knob in. The slot is most likely a way of getting the door knob back out or opening the door as such would be needed. Simple.. put a small button/switch on the inside which has to be pushed while pulling the knob in. The slot is most likely a way of getting the door knob back out or opening the door as such would be needed.

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