A safety hammer, also known as a survival hammer, is an escape aid installed in closed compartments. It is usually installed in the car and other closed compartments in the place easily accessible. When the car and other closed compartments appear fire or fall into the water and other emergencies, you can easily take out and smash the glass windows and doors in order to escape smoothly.
Mainly the use of life-saving hammer conical tip, due to the tip of the contact area is very small, so when the hammer smashes the glass, the contact point of the glass pressure is quite large (which is a little similar to the principle of the nail), and so that the car glass in the point by a large external force and produce a slight crack. For tempered glass, a little bit of cracking means that the whole piece of glass internal stress distribution has been damaged, thus producing countless cobweb-like cracks in an instant, at this time as long as the hammer gently smashed a few more times to remove the glass fragments.
The middle part of the tempered glass is the strongest, and the corners and edges are the weakest. The best way to do this is to use a safety hammer to tap the edges and corners of the glass, especially the middle-most part of the edge above the glass.
If a private vehicle is equipped with a safety hammer, it must be kept within easy reach.