Maurice Bank, 78, a Northbrook inventor, died yesterday atLutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge after a long illness.
Mr. Bank invented an intercom system and held the patent on it,said a daughter, Vivian Taitel of Northbrook.
He installed the first two-way radios in Chicago police carsabout 50 years ago and installed the communications system to theChicago water cribs in Lake Michigan off the Chicago shore, she said.
Mr. Bank was president of Excel Specialty Corp., 6335 N.Broadway, formerly Banks Manufacturing.
Other survivors include his wife, Sara; a daughter, ClaireWallenmeyer; two sisters, Helen Skolnik and Jeanette Aven; abrother, Sidney, and five grandchildren.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Weinstein Bros.Chapel, 111 Skokie Blvd., Wilmette. Burial will be in Rosemont ParkCemetery.
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