US 5,626,226 AGranted

Tamper-resistant, point-of-sale, article display package

AssigneeImperial Schrade Corp.

InventorsWalter A. Gardiner, David A. Swinden, Joseph A. Hufnagel

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Abstract

A display package for an article includes a front and a rear panel having respective peripheral portions secured to one another in an operative condition of the package. At least the front panel is provided with a recess constituting, together with a juxtaposed portion of the rear panel, a compartment for accommodating the article therein with substantially no movement therein in the operative condition of the package. A holding element is also substantially immovably received in the compartment and extends across a corresponding portion of the article remotely from the rear panel to confine the article between itself and the rear panel. The holding element is substantially rigid, and each of the front panel and the holding element is of a transparent material.

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Dependent claims

An improved, point-of-sale, tamper-resistant package for displaying an article to be protected from tampering, the package including a front panel constituted of a cuttable, transparent material having a peripheral portion, and a rear panel secured to the peripheral portion of the front panel, said panels containing the article therebetween, the improved package comprising:

a central region on the front panel interiorly of the peripheral portion, said central region having article-confining wall portions in close, adjacent confronting relationship with top and side surfaces of the article to hold the article in position;
a holding element between the panels and having element portions extending in close, adjacent confronting relationship across the top and side surfaces of the article;
said central region also having element-confining wall portions in close, adjacent confronting relationship with the holding element to hold the holding element in position;
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said holding element overlying the article underneath the central region and being constituted of a material more resistant to cutting than said front panel to resist cutting through the holding element to reach the article and to block removal of the article from the package.

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