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US 4,903,513 AGranted
Assembly for retaining articles
OwnerBrian C. Stobbartinventor
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Abstract
Retaining apparatus for retaining emergency use articles, such as locking means, a key or an alarm switch. The retaining apparatus supports a break glass panel which conceals the emergency use article and the panel is mounted whereby it may be either fractured or released by removal of locking means to provide access to the article.
Claims8
A retaining assembly, comprising:
- a body having a wall assembly;
- a passage extending through said body for allowing a retaining cable to pass into said body;
- holding means in said body for manually engaging said cable and for preventing retraction of said cable through said passage;
- an open storage recess in said body in which a tail portion of said cable engaged in said holding means may be stored;
- a fracturable panel slidably retained by said body, said panel being slidable from a covering position at which said panel extends across said open storage recess and said holding means to a disengaged position at which said open storage recess and said holding means are uncovered to provide access thereto, said panel being fracturable to provide access to said holding means and said recess;
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- releasable locking means engageable with said body for preventing sliding of said panel to said disengaged position and releasable for enabling the unfractured panel to be removed from said body.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.