Anti-Shoplifting seal
AssigneeMainetti Tecnologie S.p.A.
InventorsMario Mainetti, Chet Kolton
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Abstract
An anti-shoplifting seal is constituted by a rigid body provided with a flexible and/or elastic cord, the cord being provided at the end thereof with a spike. The spike after going through an opening formed in the product to be marked is inserted in a non-removable manner within the body. The seal comprises two half-bearings placed one in front of the other and joined one to the other in a manner to form an internal cavity within which there is placed a plate of a ferromagnetic material or any other material sensitive to apparatuses marking magnetic fields, radio frequency signals and other similar sources well known at the present state of technology.
Claims7
An anti-shoplifting seal comprising:
- a) a rectangularly shaped lower half-bearing (2) having two smaller sides (6) and together with a base (13) defining a cavity (5) therein, an opening (7) formed in one of said smaller sides (6) as a channel (11) with converging walls (12), a pair of lateral ribs (14) connected to said walls (12) at the interior of said channel so as to reinforce the same and a projection (15) which defines with said ribs a space (16), said walls (12), ribs (14) and projection (15) being formed on said base (13);
- b) a flexible cord (8) extending along the entire length of said lower half bearing and exiting at one of said smaller sides (6) and having a spike (9) at an extremity thereof, said spike (9) having at least one flexible lateral tongue (10) and being adapted for insertion into said opening (7) so that said at least one tongue engages said walls (12) to retain said spike therein and the anterior part (17) of said at least one tongue is disposed in said space (16);
- c) a ferromagnetic plate (4) disposed in said cavity (5) and supported therein by said ribs (14);
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- d) an upper half-bearing (3) adapted to be joined with said lower half-bearing (2) so as to cover said cavity (5) and said channel (11).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.