Key safe apparatus

DETAILED DESCRIPTION The present invention is a key safe apparatus which is employed to securely store a door key.
The door key is retained in a receptacle box to which a cover structure is locked by means of a coded combination lock.
The key safe is firmly attached to a door.
The invention concerns an item that fastens to the jam of a door, or almost any place on the exterior of a house or an apartment for the purpose of concealing a key to the main entrance to be used by real estate brokers, salesmen, etc.
A conventional invention serves the same purpose but is operated by a master key.
This key opens a small box which holds the front door key.
The key that opens the box is kept by a real estate salesman, and this same key may open dozens of boxes attached to houses he has listed when the owners are out or away and don't want to leave the key under the mat.
The present invention replaces the key and lock mechanism with a combination lock.
In a preferred embodiment, the code combination lock may be recoded by adjusting the lock mechanism inside the receptacle box.
The code combination is given to selected persons who need access to the particular structures whose keys are contained in the key safe.
If a particular code combination becomes unusable because it is identical to another code combination in use or because the wrong persons have access to the combination, etc.
, then a pin that regulates the activating numbers on the lock may be changed, thereby changing the combination.
The code combination lock may be constructed with a single dial or a plurality of coaxial dials.
The axes of rotation of the dials may be parallel or perpendicular to a face of the receptacle box.
In another preferred embodiment, the body of the key safe is composed of a vertically slotted receptacle box and tongued cover structure which is capable of interengaging with the slot in the receptacle box.
The receptacle box has four, generally rectilinear, vertical side walls and a solid bottom.
The box is of sufficient volume to enclose a door key