Anti-theft retail merchandise pusher with remote alarm feature
AssigneeFasteners for Retail, Inc.
InventorsBrent O. Ewing, Chan Chor Man, Thomas O. Nagel
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Abstract
A retail merchandise pusher with a remote alarm feature is provided. The pusher includes a housing and an adaptor. The adaptor is removably coupled to the housing and slidably coupled to a track. The pusher including a shaft rotatable about its axis in a first and second direction and a gear wheel coupled to the shaft. The rotation of the gear wheel causing a first electrical contact to engage with a second electrical contact, such that the distance that the pusher moves along the track can be measured by totaling the number of times the first electrical contact engages with the second electrical contact.
Claims15
A retail merchandise pusher comprising:
- a housing;
- a shaft rotatable in a first direction and a second direction about its axis;
- a gear wheel coupled to the shaft such that the gear wheel is rotatable about the shaft in the second direction;
- a first electrical contact and a second electrical contact;
- wherein movement of the pusher along the track rotates the gear wheel, such that the gear wheel causes the first electrical contact to engage with the second electrical contact;
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- a distance that the pusher has moved along the track can be measured by a number of engagements between the first electrical contact and the second electrical contact.
A retail merchandise pusher system comprising:
- a track and a pusher;
- the pusher having a housing;
- the pusher slidable along the track in a first direction and a second direction;
- and
- wherein movement of the pusher along the track causes a first electrical contact to engage with a second electrical contact, such that the distance that the pusher has moved along the track can be determined by a number of engagements between the first electrical contact and the second electrical contact.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.