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US 6,308,539 B1Granted
Article identification and surveillance tag
AssigneeB&G Plastics, Inc.
InventorsChester Kolton, Michael Norman
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Abstract
An article protection tag comprises a first housing defining a compartment therein, an EAS member disposed in the compartment and a second housing fabricated separately from the first housing, the first and second housings jointly defining structure for locking the first housing to the second housing with any one of a plurality of predetermined fixed spacings between facing surfaces of the first and second housings interiorly of the locking structure.
Claims5
An article protection tag comprising:
- a first housing defining a compartment therein;
- an EAS memer disposed in said compartment;
- and
- a second housing separate from said first housing,
- said first and second housings jointly defining means for locking said first housing to said second housing with any one of a plurality of predetermined fixed spacings between facing surfaces of said first and second housings interiorly of said locking means,
- said locking means comprising first and second mutay spaced locking members extending from one of said first and second housings for respectively receiving and retaining said first and second locking members, wherein said first housing is elongate and wherein the direction of locking of said first housing and said second housing is longitudinal of said first housing, wherein said locking members comprise first and second ratchet members extending longitudinally from said facing source of said first housing with a preselected transverse spacing therebetween.
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In combination:
- an article of manufacture having a constituent component generally rectangular in cross-section;
- and
- an article protection tag comprising:
- a first housing defining a compartment therein;
- an EAS member disposed in said compartment;
- and
- a second housing,
- said first and second housings each defining means for locking said first housing to said second housing, one of said means for locking including first and second locking members mutually spaced by at least a first dimension of said article of manufacture cross-section and having lengths exceeding a second dimension of said article of manufacture cross-section, wherein said first housing is elongate and wherein the direction of locking of said first housing and said second housing is longitudinal of said first housing, wherein said locking means comprises first and second ratchet members extending longitudinally from said facing surface of said first housing with a preselected transverse spacing therebetween.
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In combination:
- an article of manufacture having a constituent component generally rectangular in cross-section;
- and
- an article protection tag comprising
- a first housing defining a compartment therein;
- an EAS member disposed in said compartment;
- and
- a second housing,
- said first and second housings jointly defining means for locking said first housing to said second housing, one of said housing locking means including first and second locking members mutually spaced by at least a first dimension of said article of manufacture cross-section and having lengths exceeding a second dimension of said article of manufacture cross-section.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.