Automatic teller safety shield and capture cage

Claim 1

A PROTECTIVE APPARATUS FOR A BANK OR THE LIKE HAVING A WINDOW AT A TELLER''S COUNTER FOR TRANSACTING BUSINESS WITH THE PUBLIC, SAID APPARATUS COMPRISING A RETRACTABLE AND EXTENSIBLE NET OF ANNULAR TAPERED RINGS, CORD MEANS SUPPORTING THE NET IN AN ELEVATED RETRACTED POSITION ABOVE AND IN FRONT OF SAID WINDOW, ELECTRICALLY OPERATED CATCH MEANS, SAID CORD MEANS BEING DETACHABLY ENGAGED UPON SAID CATCH MEANS AND HOLDING THE NET ELEVATED AND RETRACTED, SWITCH MEANS AT THE TELLER''S COUNTER IN CIRCUIT WITH THE CATCH MEANS FOR LEASING THE CORD MEANS TO EXTEND THE NET AND CAPTURE AN ARMED PERSON STANDING IN FRONT OF THE TELLER''S WINDOW, SAID NET HAVING A MAGNETIC BOTTOM PORTION, AN ELECTROMAGNET IN THE FLOOR UNDERNEATH AND IN FRONT OF THE SAID WINDOW, IN LINE WITH SAID NET, SAID ELECTROMAGNET BEING CONNECTED IN CIRCUIT WITH SAID SWITCH MEANS FOR ENERGIZATION THEREBY TO MAGNETICALLY ENGAGE SAID BOTTOM PORTION OF THE NET AND HOLD THE SAME IN EXTENDED POSITION, AND A TEAR GAS EJECTOR DISPOSED INSIDE THE UPPERMOST ONE OF SAID RINGS, SAID TEAR GAS EJECTOR BEING ELECTRICALLY OPERATED AND DISPOSED IN CIRCUIT WITH SAID SWITCH MEANS FOR ACTUATION THEREBY, WHEREBY SAID TEAR GAS EJECTOR EMITS TEAR GAS TO SUBDUE SAID ARMED PERSON CAPTURED WITHIN THE NET WHEN THE NET IS EXTENDED.