DE2351209A1 - Security system for dress shop changing rooms - has clothes hook connected in electric circuit to detect garments left behind - Google Patents

Abstract

The clothes hook provided in the changing room pivots when clothes are hung on it, and is associated with a switch so that a circuit including a signal source is closed. The pivot of the clothes hook together with the switch are enclosed in a common housing, with the signal source which may be a lamp, pref. lying outside the housing. The clothes hook may pivot against a biasing spring which ensures that the hook is horizontal when not carrying any weight, in which position the switch is open. This system allows any garments left behind in the changing room to be detected, so that these cannot be subsequently pilfered.

Description

Note: Werner Cordes, 2165 Harsefeld «Weißenfelder Straße 1

Coat hooks.

The invention relates to a coat hook, which is also called Theft protection can be used

In particular in department stores there is a risk that in interaction of two assistants, for example, one of them initially put three coats or suits in a changing room with the note to the seller, takes these items of clothing wanting to try on there is then the risk that he then leaves the changing room with only two coats and gives them to the saleswoman with the claim, none of the garments would fit · a coat would remain in the cabin «. Then the locker room Entered by the other accomplice and he removes the coat still hanging on the coat hook and stows it away for example in a pocket or hiding it elsewhere on the body in order to steal it

The aim of the invention is to create a coat hook through which such thefts can be prevented and the is suitable to relieve the sales staff to the extent that it does not always need to remember that there is still an item of clothing hanging or ought to be hanging in the changing room.

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According to the invention, this object is achieved in one To see coat hook, which is rotatably mounted and with a switch interacts, which closes a circuit in which a Signal transmitter is · Is in such an arrangement by the loading of the coat hook with a coat or another Clothing item of the signal transmitter, which is preferably designed as a lamp, is put into operation, so the seller at the glowing lamp recognize that either someone is in the cabin or at least an item of clothing is still on hangs on the hook · If the customer leaves the shop while the lamp is on, the lamp that lights up causes the Saleswoman encouraged to remove the remaining item of clothing from the changing room. You can do it yourself not sure if the garment would have been afterwards should be stolen · But at least she has the reason to remove the item of clothing from the changing room immediately in order to This can be done freely, especially if a customer accidentally forgets an item of clothing for a subsequent one User of the changing room the incentive, or the temptation given, is the garment that does not belong to him to remove illegally

The effective coat hook also protects against theft, based on the fact that a customer changes in the changing room, i.e., entering the cabin with old clothing and

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puts on new clothes there, with which he is under Leaving his old clothes behind then leaves the changing room, because the saleswoman will too in such a case by the lighting of the lamp while the customer is leaving the changing room It is suggested that there is an irregularity. It is useful for this, * if not recognizable from the outside Is that the hanger with an alarm device or at all only interacts with one signaling device · It is therefore advantageous if the switch is connected to the pivot bearing of the The coat hook is in a housing and the arrangement is otherwise made so that it is practically imperceptible from the outside is that the clothes hook is put into a different position when it is loaded by an item of clothing · In this position Meaning tJ: It also applies when the lamp or another signal transmitter is outside the housing and can be seen, for example, on the outside of the changing room or on another Place outside the changing room

Measures are also advantageous by which it is ensured that the clothes hook is in an unloaded state raised position in which the switch is not closed. The coat hook can be fitted with a spring for this purpose be that the coat hook in the unloaded state in the

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In the raised position, in which the switch is open, instead the coat hook can also be provided with a counterweight which keeps the coat hook 1 in the unloaded position in the raised position in which the switch is open the coat hook is suggested «as a winter heat ·! developed, because in this way a greater depth of the housing or of the arrangement at all can be avoided.

Two embodiments of the invention are illustrative explained under Beaugnahiae on a drawing

In the drawing aeigen ι Fig «l t linen swivel-mounted iUelterbügel« dt 0e

housing and Alara »inrlcht« ng in the unslotted side in cut and

Fig. 2 t £ inen designed as an angle lever clothes hanger ait blessing weight

The clothes hsXen ι shown in Fig. Ι is rotatably mounted at 2. ΰα · pivot bearing 2 is check in "Ine" housing 3 in the well, a tension spring 4 is disposed is "the ι the clothes hooks in the unloaded condition in the wiedersfegebenen in auegesogenen lines raised position HLLT · Below de" Anses from the coat hook ι is a switch S ₉ dessep shift finger 6 on the lower

In the side of the clothes hook 1 rests · This position is the switch

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5 open * The Schaltec 5 forms part of an alarm circuit, 2U the one battery 7 or as a power source a mains connection belongs to a signal lamp 8, for the sake of simplicity of illustration in the drawing Lamp 8 shown lying in housing 3. In fact, however, the lamp 8 is located elsewhere, i.e. for example on the outside of the changing room and it is therefore, not visible from the inside of the changing room

If an item of clothing is hung on the coat hook 1, so it moves a few millimeters down into the position shown in dashed lines. The is in this position Switch 5 closed so that the lamp 8 lights up and makes it clear to third parties that there is still an item of clothing located in the locker room.

In contrast to the embodiment described above, FIG. 2 shows a clothes hook 1 bent at an angle, its downward facing leg a line with a counterweight 10 is provided that the upper lever arm of the hanger 1 in the unloaded state in the horizontal position holds.

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Claims (7)

Expectations ! • / coat hook, characterized in that the coat hook (1) is rotatably mounted and interacts with a switch (5) which is activated by the load lowered coat hook (1) closes a circuit, in which a signal transmitter (3) is located. 2. Clothes hook according to claim 1, characterized in that the switch (5) with the pivot bearing (2) of the clothes hook (1) lie in a housing (3). 3 clothes hook according to one or both of the preceding claims, characterized in that a lamp (S) is provided as a signal transmitter « 4. Clothes hook according to claim 3, characterized in that the lamp C 8) is outside the housing (3) 5. Clothes hook according to one or more of the preceding claims, characterized in that the clothes hook (1) is provided with a spring (4) which secures the clothes hook (1) holds in the unloaded state in the raised position in which the switch (5) is open 6. Clothes hook according to one or more of the preceding claims, characterized in that the clothes hook (1) 509816/0589 is provided with a counterweight (10) that the clothes hook (1) holds in the unloaded state in the raised position in which the switch <5) is open. . 7. Clothes hook according to one or more of the preceding claims, characterized in that the clothes hook (1) is designed as an angle lever (1, i ») 5 09816/058 9 Blank page