Locks – Special application – For antitheft signaling device on protected article
Patent
1992-06-11
1995-02-14
Gall, Lloyd A.
Locks
Special application
For antitheft signaling device on protected article
247041, 109 25, 109 29, A44B 900
Patent
active
053884337
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
PURPOSE OF INVENTION
The invention refers to a device aimed at preventing theft of displayed goods in shops, consists of a clip with a first and a second arm kept together with a hinge in one end of the arms.
The purpose of the invention is to prevent theft from stores by rendering the stolen object unusable for the thief.
BACKGROUND OF INVENTION
1. Field of The Invention
The situation for retail stores is problematic. Shoplifting is increasing and in 1988 amounted to approximately 2000 million Swedish Crowns, in the Swedish clothing retail market alone.
The type of thieves differ depending on the location of the shops but generally speaking, they could look just ordinary. No specific category of persons can be declared suspect-free in advance. It might be a senior citizen looking for excitement, a well dressed businessman who "forgot" to pay, a housewife wearing a fur coat specially designed for shop-lifting or teen-agers who consider stealing to be smart and a "tough" thing to do.
Considering these facts, the shop attendants, who are to watch the articles in the shop and see to it that they are not stolen, cannot categorize a person in advance as a "typical" shop-lifter.
A considerable part of the shop attendants' time and energy is therefore directed to "watching" the customers instead of performing their proper tasks--to sell and give service. Furthermore, the shop becomes a place where suspicion has to be directed on everybody.
The solution is for the staff to apply anti-theft devices to the articles in the shop.
This is done to a large extent, but unfortunately the alarm systems are far from perfect, as is proved by the afore-noted figure 2000 million Swedish Crowns as the value of stolen clothes in Sweden during one year.
Some clothes shops in exposed locations have to calculate with a loss in stolen articles amounting to 8% of the total turn over.
2. Description of The Prior Art
The predominant anti-theft technique used today is a device consisting of an anti-theft tab fastened to the article that is to be protected, and a detector that reacts when an anti-theft tab passes by. When this happens, the detector makes a noise that makes the staff aware of the attempted theft.
Unfortunately there are several techniques to "cheat" the systems with rather simple methods--e.g. it is possible to screen off the electronics or to remove the tab from the article by pinching off the lock-pin.
A few years ago another alarm system was introduced to the market--the so called "paint-clip". In this system there are no signals or other means to attract attention to the fact that an attempt at a theft is taking place. Instead with this technique, if the clip is removed in an incorrect manner, there is a risk that the stolen article becomes discolored.
The weakness of this system is that the thief can steal a number of theft-protected articles from the shop without being noticed, then coax the alarms out in another place, and maybe succeed with some.
Specially constructed tools for opening the alarm without breaking them also exist.
The problems of shop-lifting thus are of three different types. article, usually by pinching off the lock-pin. whilst the anti-theft tab is screened off so that the signal from it does not activate the detector. alarm is opened in a safe place.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Against the background of these procedures we hereby apply for a patent for a device that with a new technique will render it considerably more difficult in all possible ways to steal from shops.
The device is based on the knowledge that a new pattern of thefts is surfacing, especially in our large cities where gangs operate simultaneously in the whole store.
They take with them what they want and they don't mind the noise from the alarm system when they pass through the exit--running.
Being identified as thieves by the public is not of any real concern to them, since in the gang it is considered smart to steal.
All the existing alarm systems are based on the presumption that the staff should intervene when articles ar
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