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US 4,300,371 AGranted
Equipment security device
OwnerDale L. Herwick, Michael W. Adamsinventors
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Abstract
A security attachment that discourages thievery of office and work machines and the like from support furniture too difficult to asport, and comprised of a furniture receptacle and cover plate combination which includes the reception of a lock barrel applied through the bottom cover of the machine by means of a key and to which a cable lanyard is attached and passed through the frame of the machine for its limited movement with respect to the furniture.
Claims18
A security device for attachment of a machine frame to a supporting furniture top and including;
- an assembly comprised of a planar receptacle member with a central opening therethrough and a concentric hole pattern intermediate said opening and a periphery thereof, a planar cover member with an imperforate center portion and a concentric hole pattern intermediate said portion and a periphery thereof, and said hole patterns of the two members being complementary for the reception of fasteners engaged through the furniture top from the receptacle member and into the cover member,
- a lock unit and plate assembly comprised of a lock barrel engageable through the central opening in the receptacle member and a plate positioned thereby in coextensive spaced opposition to the receptacle member and overlying the fasteners engaged therethrough, said lock barrel having key operated means to releasably engage the receptacle member,
- the lock unit barrel being engaged through means connected to the machine frame.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.