Anti-theft box

Anti-theft box for displaying goods that are attractive by theft in shops and department stores, comprising:

• a cassette;
• a lid on the cassette;
• an element for wireless activation of an alarm device if the anti-theft box is carried through an exit of a shop or a department store;
• a lock slide on an inside of the lid;
• lock bolts on the lock slide which is displaceable back and forth in plane parallel fashion in order to bring the lock bolts into and out of locking engagement with the cassette;
• a latch mechanism for the lid having a latching position in which the lock slide is latched with the lock bolts in engaged position, and an unlatching position allowing displacement of the lock slide to bring the lock bolts out of locking engagement, said latch mechanism being switched to the unlatching position by means of a special tool;
• an operating slide which is plane parallel with the lock slide and is operatively connected therewith to effect displacement thereof and which can be actuated manually and be displaced back and forth in plane parallel fashion transversely of a moving direction of the lock slide;
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• coupling pins on the operating slide operatively connecting the operating slide with the lock slide by engaging into slots in the lock slide said slots being angled to transform movement of the operating slide in a longitudinal direction of the slides to movement of the lock slide in the transverse direction of the slides.