EP2696015A1 - Diebstahlsicherer Behälter - Google Patents

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EP2696015A1
EP2696015A1 EP13178963.8A EP13178963A EP2696015A1 EP 2696015 A1 EP2696015 A1 EP 2696015A1 EP 13178963 A EP13178963 A EP 13178963A EP 2696015 A1 EP2696015 A1 EP 2696015A1
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base body
theft
container
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theft container
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Federico Lastrucci
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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
    • E05B73/0023—Containers, boxes, cases or the like, e.g. for compact discs or video-cassettes, specially adapted therefor
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
    • E05B—LOCKS; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; HANDCUFFS
    • E05B65/00—Locks or fastenings for special use
    • E05B65/006—Locks or fastenings for special use for covers or panels
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
    • E05C—BOLTS OR FASTENING DEVICES FOR WINGS, SPECIALLY FOR DOORS OR WINDOWS
    • E05C9/00—Arrangements of simultaneously actuated bolts or other securing devices at well-separated positions on the same wing
    • E05C9/06—Arrangements of simultaneously actuated bolts or other securing devices at well-separated positions on the same wing with three or more sliding bars

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  • the present invention relates to an anti-theft container.
  • a solution to the problem of theft, used only for higher value products or small stores, is to place objects in showcases and to show them to customers by interacting with the retailer. Such a solution is not feasible for large stores or medium-to-low value products, because employing costly personnel would not be commercially advantageous.
  • Another solution to this problem is to reinforce commercial product packages, which are normally made of low value materials and can be easily opened by customers. A stronger package indeed decreases theft events but has the effect of increasing the sold product price, to the extent that it is not always commercially convenient.
  • Anti-theft containers have various shapes in order to be sufficiently larger than a product sold by the retailer and so as to be used in a flexible manner allowing to contain even other types of product or other packages of the same product, but of different make.
  • the main feature of these containers is that of being difficultly opened by a customer with malicious intent, while allowing authorized personnel to rapidly and easily remove or replace the packaging by means of the specific electromagnetic and/or mechanical devices.
  • a feature of the containers must be to last for at least a sufficient number of packing/unpacking cycles of the product packages, to allow the retailer to satisfactorily appreciate the amortization of the cost of the investment for using these devices.
  • the anti-theft container may also contain further devices aimed at indicating a theft attempt, as shown for example in patent EP2154659 , in which a speaker and a portable current generator powering it may be accommodated to start emitting noise if the fastening devices breaks.
  • Other devices aimed at indicating a theft attempt may be electromagnetic circuits, powered or not, which include the activation of an external anti-theft device located near the exit doors of the shop.
  • a further object is to provide an anti-theft container which allows only an authorized retailer to access the commercial product in a simple manner.
  • a still further object is to provide an anti-theft container reusable for several packing/unpacking cycles without accidentally breaking the lock mechanism.
  • a yet further object is to reduce the costs of the anti-theft container by reducing the number of its metal parts.
  • an anti-theft container as set forth in claim 1.
  • reference numeral 100 refers to an anti-theft container comprising a transparent case 7 hinged to a base body 1 and movable relative thereto between an open position and a closed position ( figures 1 and 2 ).
  • Case 7 is substantially parallelepiped-shaped and closed on top with four concave walls 71 and a lower opening with has an edge 73 on three of the four sides with two rectangular openings 72 on each side of said edge 73.
  • the fourth side has a connection hinge 11 between case 7 and base body 1.
  • case 7 on base body 1 allows to identify an opening and a closing position of the anti-theft container 100.
  • the base body 1 is shaped so to allow the edge 73 of case 7 to slide in a compartment 19 defined by an outer edge 18 and by inner walls 10 of the base body 1 which includes three inner walls 10 at the three sides 181, 182, 183 of the base body 1, which is substantially square in shape.
  • Each inner wall 10 has two rectangular openings 16 facing the openings 72 of case 7 when edge 73 is within compartment 19, i.e. container 100 is closed.
  • the outer edge 18, at the three sides 181-183 of the base body 1 in which the openings 16 are present have slightly concave surfaces so as to easily couple with the edge 73 of case 7, which in turn has slightly concave surface in accordance with the concavity of said walls 71, which are limited on the bottom precisely by said edge 73.
  • the concavity of the outer edge 18 of the base body 1 and of the edge 73 of case 7 favors the operations of opening and closing container 100 and allows a greater resistance in case of pressure from the outside during a theft attempt because it is already curved in the direction of the applied force.
  • the base body 1 has a rectangular opening 17 ( figures 1 and 2 ) at the fourth side 184, from which a knurled flywheel 21 of a rotating element 2 of a clamping device 200 mounted in the base body 1 protrudes.
  • the elongated shape of the knurled flywheel 21 allows to advantageously minimize the force applied by the operator to turn the rotating element 2: it is sufficient to operate the knurling of the flywheel 21 with a finger to rotate the rotating element 2 about a vertical axis.
  • Said rotating element 2 comprises a circular ring 20, with which said flywheel 21 is externally integral and from which it protrudes, and on the top of which three pins 22 and a cap 25, fitted at 90 degrees from one another, are fixed ( figures 3-6 and 9) .
  • the rotating element 2 is rotationally mounted by means of an inner circular wall 24 thereof on a hollow cylinder 14 arranged on the base body 1 ( figure 9 ).
  • the outer radius of the hollow cylinders 14 is slightly smaller than the inner radius of the circular ring 20 so as to rotate the rotating element 2 on the hollow cylinder 14.
  • the rotating element 2 further has a curved groove 23 positioned under the knurled flywheel 21 and appropriately shaped to slidingly couple on a rail 13 of the base body 1, thus facilitating the rotation of the rotating element 2.
  • Cap 25 is placed at an elongated portion of the rotating element 2 which ends with the knurled flywheel 21. Said cap 25 is positioned over and at a cylinder 15 with a cavity 55 which protrudes from the base body 1 near the fourth side 184 provided with the opening 17 ( figures 7-8 ).
  • the upper base of cap 25 is as wide as the circular ring 20 and as wide as an arc of circumference which corresponds to a complete rotational movement of the knurled flywheel 21 which is produced from the opening 17 of base body 1.
  • the hollow cylinder 15 blocks cap 25, thus allowing the rotating element 2 to rotate only within a given angle range.
  • the upper base of cap 25 has a hole 26 of the same size as the cavity 55 of cylinder 15.
  • a cylinder-shaped pin 5 made of iron (or other magnetically attractable material) is inserted into this cavity 55 ( figures 7-9 ), which cylinder-shaped pin 5 is provided with two catches 51 arranged at 180 degrees from each other, within which a spring 52 which embraces said pin 5 is fitted from the top.
  • the lower part of the spring 52 rests instead on a step 56 of cavity 55, so as to reduce the diameter of the cavity 55 itself, thus identifying a resting position of spring 52 which keeps a portion of pin 5 on the exterior of cavity 55.
  • a protrusion 57 useful to advantageously identify from the outside the position where to use a known magnetic-type separation device 8 is provided at cavity 55 on the lower part of the base body 1 ( figure 8 ).
  • the three pins 22 of the rotating element 2 are slidingly engaged in openings 31 of respective locking elements 3 which each include a pair of blocks 32 adapted to be inserted in said openings 72 and 16 which in fact also acts as guide for said blocks 32.
  • Each opening 31 is ovoid-shaped and its width is slightly greater than the diameter of pin 22, so that the rotation of the rotating element 2, i.e. the motion of pin 22 in opening 31, causes a translational movement of the locking element 3.
  • Blocks 32 are sufficiently large to ensure longer durability in time and greater shock resistance to falling events in an advantageous manner.
  • the base body 1 further comprises four perforated cylinders 12 in which the connection elements are inserted, for example hexagonal section pyramids, with four feet 61 of a lid 6, useful to protect the clamping device 200 from external interactions and keep all parts in the respective seats of the base body 1.
  • Lid 6 has a resting base 62 on which the product to be sold can be positioned.
  • This releasing operation allows the movement of the knurled flywheel 21 by a finger of an operator to move the rotating element 2, which, following the interaction of pins 22 with openings 31, controls the linear translation towards the interior of the block elements 3 thus releasing the blocks 32 from openings 16 and 72.
  • the device 200 substantially transforms the rotational movement of the rotating control member 2 (by means of the knurled flywheel 21) into a translational motion of three locking elements 3 associated with said rotating element 2 by mean of a cam system comprising pins 22 and openings 31.
  • the blocks 32 advantageously remain within the guides identified by the openings 16 of walls 10, without entering into the openings 72 of edge 73, thus allowing to release case 7 from the base body 1, and thus open container 100 ( figure 2 ).
  • the product to be sold may be either positioned on or removed from the resting base 62 of lid 6.
  • the clamping device 200 advantageously allows to clamp container 100 with three locking elements 3 which work at the same time and may be simultaneously removed by simply controlling the knurled flywheel 21.
  • clamping device 200 is protected and not accessible except by opening container 100 and removing lid 6 from the base body 1.

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EP13178963.8A 2012-08-08 2013-08-01 Diebstahlsicherer Behälter Withdrawn EP2696015A1 (de)

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IT001410A ITMI20121410A1 (it) 2012-08-08 2012-08-08 Contenitore anti-taccheggio

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IT201800021433A1 (it) * 2018-12-28 2020-06-28 Plasti Max Srl Contenitore con dispositivo antitaccheggio

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US6549618B1 (en) * 1999-04-12 2003-04-15 David E. Grudzinski Pay telephone vault guard
US20050185370A1 (en) * 2004-02-20 2005-08-25 Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. Computer case
US20100140270A1 (en) * 2008-12-08 2010-06-10 Environmental Container Systems, Inc. D/B/A Ecs Composites Modular equipment case
US20100327716A1 (en) * 2009-06-25 2010-12-30 Chen-Yu Li Cover mechanism for covering an opening of a housing
ES2374777A1 (es) * 2009-10-28 2012-02-22 Alumetrica 2000, S.L. Dispositivo de cierre para caja antirrobo y caja antirrobo que comprende dicho dispositivo.

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US6549618B1 (en) * 1999-04-12 2003-04-15 David E. Grudzinski Pay telephone vault guard
US20050185370A1 (en) * 2004-02-20 2005-08-25 Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. Computer case
US20100140270A1 (en) * 2008-12-08 2010-06-10 Environmental Container Systems, Inc. D/B/A Ecs Composites Modular equipment case
US20100327716A1 (en) * 2009-06-25 2010-12-30 Chen-Yu Li Cover mechanism for covering an opening of a housing
ES2374777A1 (es) * 2009-10-28 2012-02-22 Alumetrica 2000, S.L. Dispositivo de cierre para caja antirrobo y caja antirrobo que comprende dicho dispositivo.

Cited By (1)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
IT201800021433A1 (it) * 2018-12-28 2020-06-28 Plasti Max Srl Contenitore con dispositivo antitaccheggio

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