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 The Tigris Cylinder system offers four cylinder levels - Tigris Tigris Plus  Tigris Premier, and Tigris Omega, at very competitive prices.

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The Tigris® cylinder system offers four cylinder levels; • Tigris® • Tigris® Plus • Tigris® Premier • Tigris® Omega When selecting the cylinder system most appropriate for an application the following factors must be considered: - How secure should the system be? - How accessible should the system be? - How large and how complex should the masterkey system be? - What kind of cylinders are needed in the system? - How convenient should key duplicating be? - What functions are required from the cylinder system?

There are three main aspects of security for cylinders:
Physical Security, Key Control & Patent Protection.

Physical Security: The number of pins, the use of drill protected cylinder bodies and plugs and the use of anti-pick pins all enhance the security of the cylinder. BSEN 1303: 2005 is the European standard for cylinder locks and grades all cylinders in many aspects. These include 'Key related security' and 'Attack resistance'. Tigris makes the highest grades in the standard and further details can be seen on page 11 of this brochure. 

Key Control: Systems that rely on copyright protection can no longer be legally protected from others manufacturing and selling ‘pirate’ keyblanks. Only cylinder systems that offer Patent protection for their keys can truly legally protect against illegal keyblank duplication.

Premier Patent: The Patented Tigris^® Premier system operates much like a conventional 6 pin cylinder, with the exception that one of the pins has a unique patented ‘pip’ at the tip. To operate correctly there must be a corresponding cavity in the underside of the key profile. A key which does not have the correct cavity will not depress the special ‘pip’ pin to the correct position and the cylinder will fail to operate.
Premier systems are patent protected up to 2013

Omega Patent: The Patented Tigris^® Omega system operates much like the Premier cylinder, with the exception that the patented ‘pip’ at the tip is replaced by a patented 'Reef' pin. To operate correctly there must be a corresponding 'Reef-Line Signature' in the underside of the key profile. A key which does not have the correct Signature will not depress the special ‘Reef^TM’ pin to the correct position and the cylinder will fail to operate.
Omega systems are patent protected up to 2020

A large range of cylinder types are available within the Tigris® system. In addition to the variation in cylinder types, a comprehensive range of euro profile and oval profile cylinder lengths are also available to suit a wide range of door and hardware thicknesses.

Construction Keying

Maintaining security during the construction process of a building often requires the locks and cylinders to be installed at an early stage. This can lead to security being compromised on completion with keys unreturned from the contractor.
We have developed a construction cylinder which will allow the contractor full access during the construction period. A mechanism inside the cylinders is activated by the first insertion and rotation of the masterkeys which are issued at 'hand-over'. The construction keys are automatically negated from the system.

• Allows the contractors full access during the construction period

• Un-returned contractors keys do not compromise security beyond 'hand-over'.

Clutch Functionality

We have developed a cylinder where the key, when entered, disengages the thumbturn by use of a clutch mechanism. This will allow the door to be unlocked even if the thumbturn is being held in the locked position from the inside.
The security and safety implications make the use of the clutch cylinder ideal for situations such as schools, secure institutions or any other area where a non keyholder may take advantage of controlling the door by holding the thumbturn in the locked position to prevent the door being unlocked.

• Prevents control of the door from inside by holding the turn in the locked position

Classroom Function Cylinder

We have further developed the clutch cylinder where the turn can only unlock the door (see illustration).

• Features are identical to the clutch cylinder with the addition that the turn can only unlock the door

The only thumbturn on the market to fully conform to BS8300 and assists with meeting the requirements of the DDA.The cylinder requires no finger pinching or wrist to operate. 

Tigris® Accesible solutions	Typical Force Reduction
standard accessible turn	70%
mini accessible turn	50%
accessible key bow	60%

Accessible thumbturn
Almost without exception single and turn cylinders, when used in applications where individuals with special needs will
operate the door, the thumbturn is simply made larger with little consideration for those that may have difficulty applying
a grip or twisting the wrist.
We have developed a thumbturn for our cylinder ranges which remains compact but operates with a lever action and does
not therefore require a grip or twisting of the wrist to operate the turn.

For applications where the lock being used will not permit the use of the full Accessible Thumbturn we provide a Mini
Accessible turn. The leverage it provides is considerably more than a conventional thumbturn and, as with the full size
version, removes the necessity to twist the wrist to operate.

Tigris® Accesible solutions	Typical Force Reduction
standard accessible turn	70%
mini accessible turn	50%
accessible key bow	60%

Accessible Key Bows
Designed specifically for to meet the requirement for improved grip and leverage for key bows as stipulated in BS 8300:2001

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