Burglary Protection Levels

It starts with steel.
A safes door is usually its weakest point of entry and is vulnerable to prying, cutting, and drilling. We negate this weakness by doubling the amount of door steel to a full half inch. The amount of steel in our base model provides substantially more burglary protection than the highest rated safes by the majority of top selling manufacturers. For proof of this click here...

All Brown Safes are constructed using a highly reinforced interlocking six-sided construction method. All wall, ceiling, and floor intersections are bound both inside and outside with high strength arc welds. This includes seamless welds that run along all outside seams creating a fully enclosed armor casing.
The five walls of this base unit are comprised of quarter inch solid plate steel. Again, this is substantially more protection than the majority of top selling safe models.
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The door frames on most safes are normally vulnerable to prying and side drilling. Not the case with Brown Safe door frames that contain excessive reinforcement in this area. Our safes incorporate a box in frame design that carries quadruple the body steel thickness at the door's frame.
In addition, the solid steel reinforced door interlocks within the door frame, creating a flush surface of solid steel that prevents the insertion of any pry bar or hydraulic leverage mechanism.
To top it off, a hardened steel internal crossbeam positioned at a 45 degree deflective angle runs along the entire door bolt frame to repel side door drill attack attempts.

A solid steel tongue runs the entire length of the inner door parallel to the hinge. It locks in securely behind the door frame when the door is fully shut interlocking the door and frame tightly together. Once closed and engaged, this jamb coupled with the flush frame design and hardened locking bolts creates a door capable of withstanding extreme forms of attack for extended periods of time. With the inner  jamb in place, any effort spent cutting the doors exterior hinges wastes valuable time for the criminal while gaining them nothing. 

This commercial rated lock offers quick and convenient access with industrial grade protection. Built by one of the most respected lock makers in the safe world, this is a high use lock designed to provide a century’s worth of reliable operation by jewelers and security personnel. This time tested design means ultimate home reliability for you.

This large hard plate rests between the door and the lock creating an additional barrier against penetration attacks. The superior bearing design is comprised of staggered rows of through-hardened ball bearings with a 58Rc hardness rating. The harsh angles and hardness of the bearings act to bind and seize drill bits while the free spinning nature of the bearings prevent a drill bit from gaining a solid drilling surface.

The locking bolts responsible for securing the door are fastened at two distinct locations along each bolt. Each paired set of solid steel anchors is spaced wide apart for additional support. The carriage anchors are held fast directly to the plate steel door by seamless welds.
This robust method of bolt carriage reinforcement is rarely seen in the safe industry. The majority of safe companies hold their bolts using a single thin carriage anchor, making the safe extremely vulnerable to pry bar and leverage based attacks. Click here for an example of this vulnerable bolt carriage design.

A solid safe requires solid bolt work, and our bolts deliver. Each case hardened locking bolt runs directly through the carriage anchors. While the locking bolts on most safes terminate just inside the door, each Brown Safe bolt runs over half the length of the door passing directly through the wide set bolt carriage anchors.  
While in the locked position, each bolt is equipped with a passive anti-drive mechanism that blocks any attempts to mechanically force the bolt back through the use of wedges, taps, drills, and hammers.  

Click here to learn about an unscrupulous "Large locking bolt" gimmick commonly employed by many major safe manufacturers to create the false impression of a robust safe.

Hardened relocking bolts positioned at key locations throughout the safe act as an end all failsafe against intrusion. If an attempt is made to penetrate the lock, all relocker bolts instantly engage permanently pinning the door and its main bolts solidly in place and making it a near impossibility to get the door open within any reasonable remaining time the criminal may have.
Once relocker bolts have activated, the safe must be opened by a certified locksmith using blueprints supplied by Brown Safe specific to that safe. Without these detailed prints and instructions, it takes numerous hours to gain access to the safe, ensuring the safety of the precious contents within.    

To best ensure a solid floor connection, all Brown Safes are installed using four massive floor anchors. During installation, these long bolts run through anchor holes in the safes steel floor plate securing the safe firmly to the wood or concrete floor. When anchored to a concrete floor, the thief would have better luck attempting to uproot the entire concrete section around the safe rather than trying to pry the safe from its substantial purchase. When anchored to a wood floors support beam, it would be necessary to remove the entire section of floor including the beam in order to dislodge the safe. These are lengthy major operations that in most instances criminals have neither the time nor resources to perform.     

With twice the amount of door steel as the B rating, C rated safes present a substantial protection upgrade.

The C rating also doubles the amount of body steel to 1/2 inch solid body thickness. The total protection offered by the increased door and wall thickness is essentially double that of the B rating.

Twice the steel means a door that's twice the weight. To better accommodate the added mass, we upgrade the door hinges to high load bearing ball and roller hinges. The result is an exceptionally fortified door with silky smooth operation.

E rated safes weigh in with a door that carries triple the steel thickness of the base rating. This is a TL-15 protection rating.

True to the TL-15 rating, the body of E rated safes is also comprised of solid steel plates that are three times the thickness of the standard B rate model.

The highly potent protective lock hardplate used on the previous protection levels is upgraded to a thicker, denser, and costlier carbide hardplate. Comprised of the same ultra dense material that is embedded in the tips of the drill bits used to attempt entry into safes, chip carbide hardplate is a safe crackers worst nightmare as it will dull and/or shatter countless drill bits that attempt to penetrate its thickened jagged surface.

While only a quarter inch thick, the extreme strength of this added layer provides a substantial increase in protection from penetration attacks. The Ballistic Armor is cable of defeating multiple .50 caliber anti-sniper rounds, a feat no other steel we've tested is capable of performing.
Attempts to penetrate this armor with carbide tipped drill bits also prove fruitless as the armor hardness is an even match to that of the bits.