Security device for merchandise display hooks
OwnerHoward J. Fredricksoninventor
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Abstract
As a security device to prevent unauthorized removal of merchandise carried by rigid rods cantilevered to a support member, such as conventional pegboard display hooks, a rigid platelike assembly has open end slots along one edge for engaging the display hooks and the ends of the slots can be closed off by a pivotable locking arm to hold the security device on the hooks and prevent the security device from being disengaged from the hooks by sliding off the end of the hooks. The locking arm is latched in the closed or locking position but is releasable by operation of a key to disengage the security device to be able to remove merchandise from the display hook. As a feature, a space is provided on the security device for attaching a label carrying information about the merchandise.
Claims8
Merchandise display and security device comprising, in combination:
- a) elongated rod means attached at an end in cantilevered fashion to a support, said rod means holding and displaying packaged merchandise.
- b) rigid plate means, having parallel, spaced-apart, coextensive front and back planar plate members with top, bottom and side edges, a plurality of open-ended transversely spaced slots on the top edge of said plate members, said rod means insertable into said slots through the open end of said slots such that said rod means is orthogonal to said plate members;
- c) locking arm means pivotably attached to said plate means between said plate members swingable to close the open end of said slots when said rod means is inserted into said slots such that said rod means cannot be removed through the open end of said slots;
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- d) means for releasably latching said locking arm means tightly against said rod means for preventing said plate means from being removed off the distal end of said rod means when said locking arm means closes off said open end of said slots.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.