Security enclosure for tablet display devices
AssigneeNClosures, Inc.
InventorsDaniel Gorman, Kemper Barkhurst
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Abstract
A security enclosure for touchscreen-type electronic media display tablets such as the Apple® Ipad® tablet. The enclosure has a rear panel that can be mounted to a display or work surface, and a front panel that can be assembled to rotate open and closed on the rear panel with a novel panel-connecting structure that requires no tools or fasteners and that is tamper-resistant. The panel-connecting structure includes a U-shaped channel with radiused connecting tabs bent from an inside edge of the front panel, and a vertical wall with radiused tab-receiving slots bent from a mating interior edge of the rear panel.
Claims7
An enclosure for mounting and securing a display tablet on a surface, comprising:
- a rear panel comprising a rear face and sidewalls at least partially defining an enclosure volume and adapted to be mounted on a surface, and a front panel detachably and pivotally secured to the rear panel with an interior panel-connecting structure along an edge of the enclosure, the front panel pivotal on the rear panel from an open tablet-receiving position to a closed tablet-securing position closing the enclosure volume, the front panel including a front face with a touchscreen access opening and an access-limiting frame portion around the touchscreen access opening;
- the hidden panel-connecting structure comprising a generally U-shaped channel formed along an interior edge of the front panel, the U-shaped channel comprising a substantially vertical flange extending downwardly from the edge of the front panel and at least one substantially horizontal tab extending inwardly on a radiused tab bend from a distal end of the vertical flange, the hidden panel-connecting structure further comprising a substantially vertical wall extending upwardly from a mating interior edge of the rear panel on a radiused wall bend, the wall bend interrupted by at least one radiused tab-receiving slot through the wall bend corresponding to the at least one tab on the front panel.
A secure electronic display comprising:
- a display tablet;
- an enclosure mounting and securing the display tablet on a surface, the enclosure comprising a rear panel comprising a rear face and sidewalls at least partially defining an enclosure volume and mounted on the surface, and a front panel detachably and pivotally secured to the rear panel with an interior panel-connecting structure along an edge of the enclosure, the front panel pivotal on the rear panel from an open tablet-receiving position to a closed tablet-securing position closing the enclosure volume, the front panel including a front face with a touchscreen access opening and an access-limiting frame portion around the touchscreen access opening;
- the hidden panel-connecting structure comprising a generally U-shaped channel formed along an edge of the front panel, the U-shaped channel comprising a substantially vertical flange extending downwardly from an interior edge of the front panel and at least one substantially horizontal tab extending inwardly on a radiused tab bend from a distal end of the vertical flange, the hidden panel-connecting structure further comprising a substantially vertical wall extending upwardly from an interior mating edge of the rear panel on a radiused wall bend, the wall bend interrupted by at least one radiused tab-receiving slot through the wall bend corresponding to the at least one tab on the front panel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.