Stock material or miscellaneous articles – Structurally defined web or sheet – Including fastener for attaching to external surface
Patent
1997-04-04
2000-06-20
Ahmad, Nasser
Stock material or miscellaneous articles
Structurally defined web or sheet
Including fastener for attaching to external surface
70 62, 70 63, 70 65, 70234, 428 81, 428 98, 428101, 428102, 428121, 428193, B32B 306
Patent
active
060775874
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
THE TECHNICAL FIELD
The instant invention teaches an anti-theft device for personal or collective articles to be used at the beach or other leisure venue, or likewise at places of work, such as construction sites.
BACKGROUND ART
As a means of protecting articles used at the beach against theft, one could attach the articles to a stake with radiating spokes driven into the sand to an adequate depth. This type of implement, by opposing an important resistance to any traction exerted on the protected article, effectively deters theft. However, the downside to such an implement is that it is cumbersome and relatively heavy which makes transport and storage in a traditional beach bag, for instance, rather inconvenient.
The instant invention seeks to resolve the aforementioned problems by proposing an anti-theft device that is particularly light, flexible and devised so as to form a ballast opposing an important resistance to a traction effort exerted on the article to be protected.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
To that end, the anti-theft device according to the instant invention for personal or collective articles used at the beach or other leisure venue, or likewise at places of work, essentially distinguishes itself in that it is comprised of a thin element configured like a sheet in a polygonal, circular or curvilinear shape, of a flexible material, which may be extended flat on the ground, and of a plurality of flexible ties which are attached on the one hand to the periphery of the element and, on the other hand, to a unique junction part fixed to the article to be protected against theft, such that, the thin element having been extended flat on the beach and covered by a ballast-forming layer of sand, any traction exerted on the article to be protected will result in the back-folding of the element around the ballast by the tightening of the sides of the element so as to form a burden opposing an important resistance to the traction effort exerted on the article to be protected.
The thin element is preferably comprised of a piece of fabric which gives it considerable lightness and allows it to be flexible under a weak mass. With such an element, the anti-theft device is suited for use on a sandy beach. For use on a pebbly beach or a gravel beach, the invention according to another embodiment provides for a flexible element comprised of a fine-mesh net.
According to another characteristic of the invention, the flexible ties are attached along premade receptacles fixed on the peripheral border of the flexible element, said ties being hemmed into their respective receptacles and each one among them being here and there attached also to the junction piece.
Other advantages, goals and characteristics of the instant invention will become evident with the reading of the description of a preferred embodiment given by way of example therefore, referring to the attached drawings of which:
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
FIG. 1 is a view from above of the device according to the invention,
FIG. 2 is a close-up view of one of the slides according to another embodiment
FIG. 3 is a cross-section view showing a device according to the invention equipped with a ballast comprised of a layer of sand,
FIG. 4 is a view of the device in configuration of resistance against a traction effort exerted on the article to be protected against theft,
FIG. 5 shows a junction piece according to another embodiment.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
In FIG. 1, an anti-theft device according to the invention is shown comprised of a thin, flexible element (1), made either of fabric or of a fine-mesh net, and of a plurality of flexible ties (2), such as strings, attached on the one hand to the peripheral border of the flexible element and, on the other hand, to a unique junction part (3), fixed to the article (4) to be protected against thefts which could be a beach bag, a cooler, and, more generally, any sort of ordinary object usable at the beach or other leisure venue, or likewise at a place of work.
The flexible element (
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