Multi Component Dye System For Protection of Valuables

• US 20120240829A1
• Filed: 12/08/2010
• Published: 09/27/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: 3SI Security Systems NV (Cennox Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: 3SI Security Systems NV (Cennox Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Van Dessel, Sonny
• Application Number:
  US13/514,502
• Publication Number:
  US 20120240829A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 109/25
• CPC Class Codes: E05G 1/14 with means for masking or destroying the valuables, e.g. in case of theft
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2201/10 Covers; Housings
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2600/53 Snapping

Abstract

A multi-component dye unit for use in a system to protect valuables. The unit comprises at least two reservoirs arranged in an external container or housing. The reservoirs are filled with different agents A and B, and connected to a spraying device capable of staining the contents of a secured container. The reservoirs are preferably made of flexible material and the contents thereof may be expelled by gas pressure in said external container. Advantageously, the external container may be made of two parts clippable together.

Claims

1. A multi-component dye unit for use in a system to protect valuables contained in a secured container, the dye unit comprising at least a first reservoir filled with a first agent and a second reservoir filled with a second agent different than the first agent, and each connected to at least one spraying device for spraying said first and second agents to thereby stain the contents of said secured container,

wherein said first and second reservoirs are disposed within an external container or housing.

2. The unit of claim 1, wherein the first and second reservoirs each comprise a flexible material that permits the contents thereof to be squeezed out and expelled by gas pressure in said external container.

3. The unit of claim 1, wherein the external container comprises two parts clippable together.

4. The unit of claim 1, wherein the spraying device comprises two separate spraying devices each connected to one of the first or second reservoirs.

5. The unit of claim 1, wherein the spraying device comprises a plurality of conduits leading the contents of the first and second reservoirs to a mixing chamber connected to a single spraying device.

6. The unit of claim 1, wherein the first and second agents comprise semi-dye components.

7. The unit of claim 1, wherein the first agent comprises an ink comprising a dye and the second agent comprises a glue, a polyurethane or an acid, or a stabilizer or fixing agent for the first agent.

8. The unit of claim 1, further comprising a nucleic acid marker, either as one of the first or second agents or as part of at least one of the first or second agents.

9. A secured container for protecting valuables, the container comprising the multi-component dye unit of claim 1.

10. The unit of claim 2, wherein the external container comprises two parts clippable together.

11. The unit of claim 2, wherein the spraying device comprises two separate spraying devices each connected to one of the first or second reservoirs.

12. The unit of claim 11, wherein the first agent comprises an ink comprising a dye and the second agent comprises a glue, a polyurethane or an acid, or a stabilizer or fixing agent for the first agent.

13. The unit of claim 3, wherein the spraying device comprises two separate spraying devices each connected to one of the first or second reservoirs.

14. The unit of claim 10, wherein the spraying device comprises two separate spraying devices each connected to one of the first or second reservoirs.

15. The unit of claim 2, wherein the spraying device comprises a plurality of conduits leading the contents of the first and second reservoirs to a mixing chamber connected to a single spraying device.

16. The unit of claim 15, wherein the first and second agents comprise semi-dye components.

17. The unit of claim 3, wherein the spraying device comprises a plurality of conduits leading the contents of the first and second reservoirs to a mixing chamber connected to a single spraying device.

18. The unit of claim 10, wherein the spraying device comprises a plurality of conduits leading the contents of the first and second reservoirs to a mixing chamber connected to a single spraying device.

19. The unit of claim 2, further comprising a nucleic acid marker, either as one of the first or second agents or as part of at least one of the first or second agents.

20. The secured container of claim 9, wherein the first and second reservoirs of the multi-component dye unit each comprise a flexible material that permits the contents thereof to be squeezed out and expelled by gas pressure in said external container and the external container comprises two parts clippable together.