The concept of safes was come out about hundreds of years ago.
It has been developed to protect precious things like cash, art, jewelry or other valuable objects.
Though the mechanisms and outlooks of safes are changing with the time, function or objective remains same.
Sages are also used to defend secret inventions, formulas or any type of classified and sensitive information.
There are two prevalent kinds of safes.
One is burglary safes and the other is fire safes.
Here is some info about them.
Burglary safes Burglary safes are developed to protect any kind of forced-entry.
Burglars use different kinds of advanced tools to break safes including advanced hand tools, chemicals, power tools, explosives, cutting torches etc.
It is specially designed to defend each of these kinds of illegal attacks.
To defend specific kind of threat, a burglary safe is designed and constructed with specific mechanism according to the type of threat.
The objective of this is to prevent burglaries and thefts.
Burglary safes are also can be used with other equipments like intrusion alarm system to delay any skilled burglar so that the probability of the burglar being caught is increased.
There are some categories of burglars safes exist.
They are categorized on the way they are designed or constructed.
Common construction types of burglary safes are B-rated, C-rated and B/C-rated burglary safes.
Fire safes Fire safes are designed to protect the safe's substances or contents from being damaged that caused by fire.
It should be mentioned here that fire safes do not mean "fire-proof".
Fire safes only provide protection against specific kinds of fires for a certain interval of time so that steps can be taken.
There is a classification of fire safes exists based upon the type of assets they are developed to protect, the maximum temperature of fire they can resist and the protection time period.
There are three principal categories of fire safes: UL Class 350: The maximum expected temperature of this is 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
It is Suitable for protecting paper documents.
UL Class 150: The maximum expected temperature of this is 150 degrees Fahrenheit.
It is suitable for protecting media types such as magnetic tapes, CDs and DVDs.
UL Class 125: The maximum expected temperature of this is 125 degrees Fahrenheit.
It is suitable for protecting all kind of electronic medias.