Communications: electrical – Condition responsive indicating system – Specific condition
Patent
1995-12-21
1997-02-11
Hofsass, Jeffery
Communications: electrical
Condition responsive indicating system
Specific condition
340572, 215201, 215207, G08B 1314
Patent
active
056025300
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to an anti-shop-lifting device, intended to be passed onto and locked to a bottle neck having an external circumferential bead.
By the introduction of self-service shops and super markets where the customers walk around in the premises and are able not only to look at the articles exposed but also to take them away, petty thefts and shop-lifting have increased substantially. In order that dishonest persons shall not take away goods from the shop without paying for the goods it has been necessary to introduce in the shops expensive alarm systems including an alarm element on each piece of goods, which is removed from the goods or deactivated at honest purchase when payment is made at the counter but in case this has not been done causes alarm to be given when the dishonest customer carrying the goods passes through one of the exits of the shop. Among goods inviting to shop-lifting are i.a. expensive and selected wines and liquors available in self-service shops in foreign countries, which in the future may be sold in self-service shops also in this country.
There have been presented anti-shop-lifting devices provided with an alarm element, which are intended to be locked to a bottle, and FR-A2-2 606 161 and FR-A2-2 608 285 disclose examples of anti-shop-lifting devices which are suited for application i.a. on bottles having an external circumferential bead on the bottle-neck. Then, the anti-shop-lifting device with an alarm element mounted to it is applied to the bottle by the bottle-neck being encircled by a flexible wire loop behind the bead, said loop supporting the anti-shop-lifting device on the bottle and being locked in such a way that some type of special tool is required, often a powerful magnet, for removing the wire loop and thus the anti-shop-lifting device from the bottle. This prior art anti-shop-lifting device is not particularly safe because the wire loop can easily be cut by means of common cutting nippers. Moreover, it is relatively circumstantial to apply the anti-shop-lifting device onto the bottle and to remove it therefrom.
FR-A1-2 586 231 and US-A-1 343 962 disclose devices intended to be locked to bottles in order to prevent uncorking thereof, which are not, however, provided with an alarm element.
The purpose of the invention is to provide an anti-shop-lifting device of the kind referred to above which provides practically full safety against unauthorized removal from the bottle and can be applied very easily and can be duly removed so that no additional burden need to be put on the personel at the counter, said device being well suited for the application of an alarm element on the device.
For said purpose the anti-shop-lifting device according to the invention comprises, as disclosed in FR-A1-2 586 231, an inner socket to be passed onto the bottle-neck, an outer socket mounted externally on the inner socket, which can be shifted in relation to the inner socket between two end positions, a number of retainers distributed peripherally, which in an engaged position engage behind the bead on the bottle-neck in order to prevent the anti-shop-lifting device from being withdrawn from the bottle neck, and latch means for locking the outer socket in one end position with the retainers in the engaged position, which latch means is biased to latching position but can be actuated by means of an external element to a disengaged position against the bias in order to allow movement of the retainers from the engaged position and thus withdrawal of the anti-shop-lifting device from the bottle-neck.
The anti-shop-lifting device has obtained according to the invention the characterizing features of claim 1.
The invention will be described in more detail below reference being made to the accompanying drawings in which
FIG. 1 is an axial cross-sectional view of the anti-shop-lifting device in the preferred embodiment thereof locked to a bottle indicated by dot-and-dash lines,
FIG. 2 is a corresponding axial cross-sectional view of the anti-shop-lifting device in position to be wi
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Hofsass Jeffery
Lee Benjamin C.
MW International Ltd.
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