Wallet guard

• US 4,080,595 A
• Filed: 04/04/1977
• Issued: 03/21/1978
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Leo J. Rosen
• Original Assignee: Leo J. Rosen
• Inventors: Rosen, Leo J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Swann, III, Glen R.
• Application Number:
  US05/784,040
• Time in Patent Office: 351 Days
• Field of Search: 340/280, 340/283
• US Class Current: 340/568.7
• CPC Class Codes: A45C 13/24 Devices for sound-producing, piercing, gas-discharging, or the like
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0297 Robbery alarms, e.g. hold-up alarms, bag snatching alarms

Abstract

An audible alarm device attachable to the clothing of the user has a flexible chain extending therefrom and terminating in a clip means attachable to a wallet in a nearby pocket. The interconnecting chain is wound upon a spring-stressed reel journalled within the device and having at one end an abutment member which, upon turning in response to pulling upon the chain, abuttingly contacts and moves an electrical switch actuating member from open to close circuit position for energizing a buzzer sounding an alarm that the wallet has been surreptitiously removed from the pocket.

Claims

1. A wallet guard comprising, in combination, a housing member, a flexible chain, a chain return spring mechanism within said housing member and having journalled therein a reel about which one end of said chain is attached and windable, the other end of said flexible chain extending through an opening in said housing member and terminating in means for attachment to a wallet to be guarded, an alarm device in said housing member, normally inactive energizing means for said alarm device, and means controlled by rotation of said reel upon withdrawal of said interconnecting chain for activating said energizing means for operating said alarm device.

2. A wallet guard as defined in claim 1, wherein said alarm device comprises an electrically energized audible alarm, wherein said energizing means comprises an electrical circuit providing a source of electrical current, and wherein said spool rotation control means comprises an electrical switch in said electrical circuit.

3. A wallet guard as defined in claim 2, including manual control means for independently actuating said electrical switch.

4. A wallet guard as defined in claim 3, including means for removably attaching said housing member to the clothing.

5. A wallet guard as defined in claim 4, wherein said wallet attachment means comprises a spring clip.

6. A wallet guard as defined in claim 5, wherein said clothing attachment means comprises a second spring clip.