Supports: racks – Article locking – Combined lock and clamp
Reexamination Certificate
2000-08-17
2001-12-04
Gibson, Jr., Robert W. (Department: 3634)
Supports: racks
Article locking
Combined lock and clamp
C211S004000, C070S058000, C070S062000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06325219
ABSTRACT:
The invention relates to an anti-theft device for displaying merchandise, comprising hangers for hanging up the merchandise, which at one end are provided with retaining means for preventing the merchandise from being removed from the hanger, and which at the other end, where the merchandise is put on and taken off, have hooking means, and comprising a main support with recesses where the hooking means of the hangers are hooked in, and a lockable obstruction on the main support for preventing the hangers from being unhooked.
Many items of merchandise have mutually conflicting requirements, namely on the one hand the vendor's interest in a customer-friendly display which affords the potential customer the possibility of examining the merchandise thoroughly, and on the other hand the need to secure the merchandise against theft, which would require the merchandise to be locked up and would not be customer-friendly.
To make theft at least more difficult and, if desired, to be able unambiguously to identify the stolen goods as such, the merchandise is often individually provided with an anti-theft device which cannot be removed from the merchandise without a special tool.
DE-A-36 08 695 discloses an anti-theft device for belts, in which an individual belt is hooked in and bolted by its buckle. If one wanted to steal the belt, the device would have to be taken with it. This would attract more attention than taking a belt without such a device.
FR-A-2 535 594 and FR-A-2 546 390 disclose anti-theft devices for wallets and the like based, on the same princple.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,088,228 discloses an anti-theft device for displaying articles of clothing. Hangers, on which the merchandise hangs, are inserted from above into a support inside which a locking bar runs, said bar interacting with the appropriately shaped, inserted ends of the hangers.
All these security means make theft more difficult to a degree, but they offer no real security, or they are so elaborate and expensive that they are not viable for merchandise in lower and medium price brackets.
The object of the present invention is therefore to provide an anti-theft device for merchandise which on the one hand allows the customer-friendly, open display of the merchandise, and on the other hand offers the greatest possible security against theft of the merchandise, and which can be produced at reasonable cost.
According to the invention, this is achieved by a device of the type mentioned at the outset in which the recesses consist of holes drilled in the main support, and the obstruction takes the form of a rail covering the hangers which have been hooked in.
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Cave LLP Bryan
Gibson , Jr. Robert W.
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