EP0893562A1 - Vorrichtung zum Schutz von Gegenständen gegen Diebstahl - Google Patents

Vorrichtung zum Schutz von Gegenständen gegen Diebstahl Download PDF

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EP0893562A1
EP0893562A1 EP98470016A EP98470016A EP0893562A1 EP 0893562 A1 EP0893562 A1 EP 0893562A1 EP 98470016 A EP98470016 A EP 98470016A EP 98470016 A EP98470016 A EP 98470016A EP 0893562 A1 EP0893562 A1 EP 0893562A1
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Albert Le Van Hao
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
    • E05B—LOCKS; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; HANDCUFFS
    • E05B73/00—Devices for locking portable objects against unauthorised removal; Miscellaneous locking devices
    • E05B73/0017—Anti-theft devices, e.g. tags or monitors, fixed to articles, e.g. clothes, and to be removed at the check-out of shops
    • E05B73/0041—Anti-theft devices, e.g. tags or monitors, fixed to articles, e.g. clothes, and to be removed at the check-out of shops for essentially round objects, e.g. bottles or racket handles
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
    • E05B—LOCKS; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; HANDCUFFS
    • E05B73/00—Devices for locking portable objects against unauthorised removal; Miscellaneous locking devices
    • E05B73/0017—Anti-theft devices, e.g. tags or monitors, fixed to articles, e.g. clothes, and to be removed at the check-out of shops

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  • the invention relates to a device for protection of objects against theft, in particular a device capable of being detected remotely during crossing of a detection device.
  • This detection device is generally located on a compulsory passage, for example at the exit of cash registers in a store, and comes under the shape of a gantry so as to be able to detect the theft of a protected object and, in this case, trigger a alarm.
  • a compulsory passage for example at the exit of cash registers in a store
  • comes under the shape of a gantry so as to be able to detect the theft of a protected object and, in this case, trigger a alarm.
  • we take advantage of this checkout to neutralize the protective device so as to avoid triggering an alarm.
  • connection means comprising locking means for locking the wafer and connection means for fixing the connection means on the hanging structure.
  • the locking means are constituted by a button to lock the plate and the means of connection are constituted by an adjustable collar of which one end is fixed to the connection means and the other free end passes through the connection means, at through a light, so as to form a collar.
  • the collar has a threaded structure on the surface.
  • a flexible blade cooperates at one end with the button and by a second end with a piston which immobilizes the collar.
  • the collar is tightened around the object to be protected by pulling the free end.
  • the plate is locked by exerting an effort on the button.
  • we also deforms the first end of the blade flexible which acts, by its second end and at the like a lever, on the piston which has an edge acute fitting between two neighboring turns of the thread of the necklace.
  • a particular drawback of this device is that the plate allows to have an external socket, made of important external dimensions, which allows to exert a traction effort so as to disconnect the wafer from its connection means and, thus damaging the protective device rhedibitory way for good protection of the object.
  • the means of connection must be sized to withstand such efforts, this which increases the overall size and the cost of such protective devices.
  • the object of the invention is to propose a new theft protection device that can in particular make it possible to solve the problems mentioned above, which can be very compact and present a high resistance of the connection between the device and the object.
  • the object of the invention is a device for protecting objects against theft, suitable for being detected remotely when crossing a detection device, comprising a means of attachment flexible likely to cross or enclose objects to be protected, tensile and shear resistant as well as a detectable element, characterized in that the attachment means comprises a sheath of material substantially non-magnetic and the detectable element is a wire detectable by detection devices using an electromagnetic detection principle, extending to inside the sheath.
  • the invention allows, by comparison with the technique to propose a protective device for simple design since it has a detectable wire extending inside the sheath.
  • This device is detectable by functioning detection devices according to the principle of electromagnetic detection. Thread detectable eliminates the use of insert, which considerably reduces the dimensions of the device, without reducing the mechanical resistance required.
  • the sheath with high tensile strength and shear, effectively protects the wire detectable, difficult to access from the outside, against any attack aimed at damaging the device.
  • the device allows effective protection of anti-theft items.
  • the use of a material sheath non-magnetic or weakly magnetic avoids any magnetic interference with the wire detectable and thus ensure detection within best conditions.
  • the sheath has a layer notched device, the notches of which ensure locking the flexible attachment means so functionally equivalent to the threaded structure described in document FR-A-2 611 128 already cited.
  • This notched layer is preferably made of a metallic wire shaped in a spiral, having the shape of a spring, but without being significantly deformable in traction.
  • this layout provides significant flexibility attachment means allowing the adaptation of the device to any form of object, for example the neck a bottle or flask or any other object on which the protective device can be placed.
  • the device can thus enclose the object as closely as possible, minimizing the play between the means of attachment and the object, which would otherwise facilitate the introduction of a tool allowing the removal of the device. So you can't easily release the object device without making use of a means of adequate unlocking, as will be seen later.
  • the means of attachment is secured by a first end to a housing having a channel in which slides, according to a tightening direction, free part of the means attachment, distant from the first end, the housing further comprising a locking means unlockable cooperating with the free part of the means of attachment.
  • the attachment means has a shape in collar, adjustable opening, particularly suitable to be placed and tightened around the neck of a bottle, flask or any other object allowing to attach the device.
  • the blocking means prevent the sliding of the free part in the channel, in the opposite to the tightening direction.
  • the blocking means is consisting of a piston comprising a piston head cooperating with notches of the notched layer under the action of a return spring and the piston head is of substantially non-magnetic material, so as to avoid any harmful interference with the detectable element.
  • the piston is slidably mounted in a bore in a direction transverse to the channel, and pushed towards the channel by the return spring.
  • the piston head is provided with an edge which engages in the channel and which is shaped so that it can engage between the notches of the notched layer.
  • the piston works like a ratchet to allow the attachment means to slide in one direction, according to the tightening direction, and prevent sliding in the other direction.
  • the device is unlocked by moving the piston, against the force exerted by the return spring, to release its edge from the notches of the attachment means.
  • the body of the piston is made of a magnetic material of so that it can be moved by a device magnetic unlocking, of a type known per se.
  • the sheath has a sleeve, of material which is deformable in bending but little deformable in compression, substantially non-magnetic located between the notched layer and the detectable wire.
  • the sleeve is a cable and the wire detectable is placed in the cable.
  • Sleeve protects detectable wire and prevents this to come into contact with the notched layer. Of plus, it also contributes to tensile strength of the attachment means.
  • the attachment means comprises a wire reinforcement placed inside the sheath and extending substantially parallel to the detectable wire.
  • the reinforcing wire also participates in the tensile strength of the attachment means. Moreover, when the notched layer is in the form of a spring, the constituent wire of the spring grips the sleeve so as to ensure between the wire and the sleeve a link which also helps prevent the spreading of turns during a tensile force exerted on the medium of attachment. Thus, the reinforcing wire then also serves avoid radial crushing of the sleeve, ensuring thus the said connection between the sleeve and the wire of the spring.
  • the case is made in two parts which are symmetrical with respect to a separation plane corresponding to the joint plane of the case which can be advantageously produced by molding and then assembled using glue or ultrasonic welding.
  • the attachment means shown in Figure 1 and designated thereafter "link"
  • link comprises a detectable wire 2, of cylindrical or flattened section, which extends inside a sheath 1 consisting of a sleeve 11 and a layer notched device 3 constituted by a winding in spiral of a metal wire around the sleeve 11, in spring form.
  • This notched layer will be designated later "spring”, although it is not intended to accept axial deformations, but only at allow flexibility of the link.
  • Detectable wire 2 can be detected remotely by a detector (not shown) using detection electromagnetic.
  • a detectable wire of this type is described in document FR-A-2573895, but the device protection is not limited to the use of this wire.
  • the wire detectable 2 extends over the entire length of the link, this which makes it possible to fabricate the link in great length, and then cut it to the desired length.
  • the detectable wire 2 could however be shorter than the sheath, without do not interfere with detection.
  • the sleeve 11 made of a relatively material rigid, but able to deform in bending, as by example a plastic material such as Nylon (brand deposited), wraps the detectable wire 2.
  • the sleeve can also be made in the form of a cable 11, i.e. an assembly of strands metallic 110 which are in a non-magnetic material and which are twisted, in which we place the wire detectable 2.
  • the detectable wire extends near the central strand forming the core of the cable.
  • the cable 11 of Figure 7 is shown only as example.
  • detectable wire 2 as strand 110 or, depending on another embodiment, the strands 110 may consist of an assembly of twisted wires (not shown) and the detectable wire 2 could be one of constituent wires of the strand.
  • Spring 3 has a pitch of low p turns, only slightly higher than diameter of the wire which constitutes it, which allows protect the detectable wire 2 against any attack outside.
  • the spring 3 is produced in a material with mechanical characteristics high, much higher than those of the sleeve 11, of so as to withstand significant constraints of tensile and shear forces exerted on the link.
  • the spring 3 has the following characteristics: an outside diameter of 3.2 mm, a wire diameter of 0.8 mm, a pitch of 1.3 mm and a shear strength of the order of 1400 N / mm 2 .
  • Spring 3 is made of metallic material non-magnetic, for example a bronze-beryllium alloy, to avoid any original interference electromagnetic with detectable wire 2, so that offer detection in good conditions.
  • the sleeve 11 includes a reinforcing wire 20 which extends substantially parallel to the detectable wire 2 which is in the form of a flat ribbon.
  • the presence of the reinforcement wire 21 in the immediate vicinity of the wire detectable 2 is given only as an example. This arrangement makes it possible to stiffen the sleeve 11 while avoiding its crushing under the radial pressure exerted by the spring 3, as explained above.
  • the protection device shown in Figure 2, includes the link, like the one described above, as well as a box 5.
  • the link shaped in a loop, is fixed by a first end 4 to the housing 5 and a free part 7, distant from the first end 4, slides in a channel 6 made in the case and in which link can be locked.
  • the case 5 has an edge, in contact with the object to protect, shaped into a curve to substantially match the shape of the object, so as to ensure a certain continuity of the loop form of the link even for different dimensions of this loop, allowing to obtain the closest possible contact between the device and the object on which it is placed.
  • the first end part 4 of the link comprises a protuberance 12, produced by an increase in the outer diameter of spring 3, locked in a housing 13 made in the housing 5.
  • the second end 14 of the link is provided with a zipper 15, which can be removable and which allows to exert a traction effort necessary for the link encloses the object to be protected.
  • the link comprises a sheath 17, located on the periphery of the link and made of a flexible material such as rubber, which extends between the first end portion 14 and the movable part 7 of the link.
  • locking the link in channel 6 is provided by a piston 8 mounted sliding in a bore 19 made in the housing 5 and extending in a direction transverse to the tightening direction.
  • a head 9 of the piston 8 has a edge which is inserted between two turns of the spring 3, located on the free part 7 inside the channel 6, under the action of a return spring 10 acting on the piston 8.
  • the piston 8 comprises a body 16, made of material metallic magnetic so as to unlock the protective device, acting from the outside to using a magnet, to move the piston 8 to against the action of the return spring 10.
  • the piston head 9 is fitted, with a tight fit, on the body 16 of the piston.
  • the reinforcing wire 21 is also produced in a substantially non-magnetic material to avoid interference with the detectable wire 2.
  • the housing 5 comprises two parts 5a, 5b symmetrical with respect to a separation plan located between the two parties.
  • the separation plane corresponds to the joint plane of the housing 5, the case could advantageously be produced by molding.
  • the box 5 will be produced in a moldable plastic material having a large mechanical resistance, such as PVC or ABS.
  • This arrangement makes it easier to assemble the piston 8, return spring 10 and sheath 1 constituting the protective device inside of part 5a of box 5 and then we place the other part 5b in correspondence with part 5a. As soon as the assembly is complete, the two parts 5a are joined together, 5b of the case 5 using an adhesive or welding by ultrasound.
  • centering pins 18a made in part 5a, which fit into holes 18b made in the part 5b.
  • the pull tab 15 can also be produced in two parts, like the case 5.
  • the second part end 14 of the link will also have a protrusion 12 ', also produced by increasing the outer diameter of spring 3, locked in a housing 20 made in the pull tab 15.
  • the protection device is detectable by detection devices using the detection principle electromagnetic.

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