Modular Security Suite [MSS]TM

Abstract

A suite of hardened high security steel & concrete modules for protection of people, pets and valuables during a tornado, hurricane, home intrusion or other emergency. A Modular Security Suite [MSS™] is an above ground set of two or more rooms whose steel plate walls extend deep down into a building's concrete or other material foundation and are primarily anchored by the foundation's steel reinforcement rods and the weight of building's concrete foundation. After construction and interior decoration a MSS unit disappears into the home or office floorplan. A MSS unit could include a full bathroom, kitchenette or pantry and a hallway module with built-in bunk beds. Its steel plate walls are filled with concrete and rerod to greatly increase its resistance to serve weather and debris. The design's hallway module and its two steel and concrete pocket doors protect its interior doorways from damage and provides two exits.

1 ) The Modular Security Suite modules are bolted to a concrete footing that is below the grade of the concrete foundation of the building in which it is embedded. Optionally, “U”-shaped steel bolts threaded at each end would increase anchoring strength of the footing vs. conventional straight threaded steel footing bolts. Thusly the MSS design has several overlaying and complimentary means to anchor the MSS unit above ground level to the foundation of a building. 
   
   
       2 ) The MSS steel core pocket doors and double hardwood or other material(s) hallway doors—at either end of the hallway module—are positioned and how they guard the inner doors from high speed debris impacts during a tornado, hurricane or other disaster. The MSS pocket door will interface with hallway module carpeting, wood flooring or other floor covering material(s).
 The MSS trolley would be a solid piece of wood or other material(s) for horizontal movement and storage while the pocket door is closed or it could be made of a flexible material that would with counter weighting allow for its vertical storage when horizontal space is not available.   
   
   
       3 ) The MSS ceiling is designed to be filled with concrete and rerod during installation at the building site.