Security system for epos terminal
AssigneeSe-Kure Controls, Inc.
InventorRoger J. Leyden
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Abstract
The combination of an EPOS terminal and a security system. The terminal has a housing with a reader for identifying information on a user card. The housing has an external surface defining an original outer configuration. The security system has at least one component configured to be fixed to the housing. The at least one component substantially effectively alters a contour of the original outer configuration of the external surface so as to block placement of a skin, with a skimming component and at least nominally matched in shape to at least a portion of the original outer configuration of the external surface, conformingly over the external surface of the housing.
Claims20
In combination:
- a) an EPOS terminal configured to process a user input through at least one of a debit and a credit card,
- the EPOS terminal comprising a housing with a reader for identifying information on a user's debit or credit card usable to carry out a transaction,
- the housing having an external surface defining an original outer configuration;
- and
- b) a security system comprising:
- at least one component configured to be fixed to the housing with the security system in an operative state,
- the at least one component substantially effectively altering a contour of the original outer configuration of the external surface so as to block placement of a skin, with a skimming component and at least nominally matched in shape to at least a portion of the original outer configuration of the external surface, conformingly over the external surface of the housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.