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US 5,437,172 AGranted
Anti-theft device for eyeglasses
AssigneePlasti-Max S.p.A.
InventorsPatrick Lamy, Arnaldo Mazzucchelli
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Abstract
An anti-theft device has a plate for hanging it and a link. The link is arranged to form a closed loop over a bridge of a pair of eyeglasses. A fastener belonging to the plate receives a free end of the link. It is only releasable with a special tool. The link consists of an element of flexible plastic material and of a reinforcement.
Claims8
Anti-theft device for removably mounting a pair of eyeglasses on a display, comprising:
- a plate formed with aperture means adapted to receive a support;
- link means arranged to form a closed loop over a bridge of a pair of eyeglasses, and
- fastening means on said plate, said fastening means being engageable with said link means for locking said link means on said plate and preventing separation of said pair of eyeglasses from said device and only releasable from said link means with a special tool;
- said link means comprising an element of relatively weak flexible plastic material and reinforcement means for rendering cutting of said link means difficult.
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Anti-theft device for removably mounting a pair of eyeglasses on a display support, comprising:
- a plate of relatively stiff plastic material formed with aperture means adapted to receive a support rod;
- a U-shaped link comprising an outer metal element of such strength as not to be opened easily and an inner element of plastic material for contact with a bridge of a frame of a pair of eyeglasses;
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- fastening means carried by said plate, having slot means for receiving both end portions of said link and locking means constructed to engage into cooperating means of said link upon manual insertion of said end portions into said slot means and to be releasable only with a special tool.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.