Swivel recoiler

• US 20080035778A1
• Filed: 08/14/2006
• Published: 02/14/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/14/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: InVue Security Products Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Alpha Security Products, Inc.
• Inventors: Sankey, James K., Belden, Dennis D.
• Application Number:
  US11/503,684
• Publication Number:
  US 20080035778A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 242/375
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 5/004 with an automatic spring reel
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 7/024 with provisions for preventing unauthorised removal show cases with devices for prevention of theft A47F3/002; devices for locking portable objects against unauthorised removal E05B73/0017
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 75/446 for releasably or permanently attaching the frame to a wall, on a floor or on a post or the like

Abstract

A recoiler has a retractable cable with an attachment pad on the distal end of the cable for attachment to an item of merchandise. The cable is stored on a spring biased spool located within a recoiler housing. The housing is freely rotatably mounted on a post extending upwardly from a base plate secured to the spool housing by a fastener and adapted to be secured to a support structure.

Claims

1. A recoiler for automatically retracting a cable comprising:

a housing containing a spool, a length of cable stored on said spool, and a spring biasing the spool and cable in a retractable direction;

a base having an upstanding post pivotally mounting the housing on said base; and

an attachment member for attaching the base on a supporting structure.

2. The recoiler defined in claim 1 wherein the housing includes top and bottom members secured together and forming an internal chamber;

in which a spindle extends outwardly from the bottom housing member into the chamber and rotatably mounts the spool thereon; and

in which the spring is a coil spring having one end attached to the bottom housing spindle and another end attached to the spool.

3. The recoiler defined in claim 2 wherein the spool includes a central recess with a central opening through which the spindle extends;

and in which the coil spring is located within the central recess and extends about the spindle.

4. The recoiler defined in claim 2 wherein the base post extends into a hollow interior of the spindle for rotatably mounting the housing on the post.

5. The recoiler defined in claim 4 wherein the base post includes a boss;

and in which the bottom housing member is rotatably supported on the boss.

6. The recoiler defined in claim 5 wherein the base is a one-piece member formed of plastic.

7. The recoiler defined in claim 4 wherein the base post extends through an opening formed in the top housing member;

and in which a fastener having an enlarged head is secured in the base post to secure the housing on said base post.

8. The recoiler defined in claim 7 wherein the top housing member includes a top central recess;

in which the fastener head is located in said central recess; and

in which a cover is mounted on the top housing member concealing the fastener head.

9. The recoiler defined in claim 2 in which each of the top and bottom housing members is a one-piece member formed of plastic.

10. The recoiler defined in claim 1 wherein the attachment member is a pad having opposed surfaces, one surface being attached to a bottom surface of the base and having a pressure sensitive adhesive on the other surface for securing the base to the supporting structure.

11. The recoiler defined in claim 1 wherein one end of the cable is attached to the spool and an opposite end is secured to an attachment pad;

and in which the attachment pad has a member for attaching the pad to an item of merchandise.

12. The recoiler defined in claim 11 wherein the attachment pad member is a disc of pressure sensitive adhesive.