Anti-theft tag with conical coil

• US 4,940,968 A
• Filed: 02/14/1989
• Issued: 07/10/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 02/15/1988
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Dutch A & A Holding BV
• Original Assignee: ID Systems International BV (CCL Industries Incorporated)
• Inventors: De Nood, Cornelis S. A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Swann, III, Glen R.
• Application Number:
  US07/311,123
• Time in Patent Office: 511 Days
• Field of Search: 340/572, 340/693
• US Class Current: 340/572.5
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 73/0017 Anti-theft devices, e.g. tags or monitors, fixed to articles, e.g. clothes, and to be removed at the check-out of shops

Abstract

An anti-theft tag includes two dishes (3, 4) fixed to each other. One dish (4) is provided with a feed-through hole (15) for inserting a pin (10) with a head (29). The dishes define an internal space for accomodating a releasable lock for locking the inserted pin and a circuit composed of a coil (22) and a capacitor (23). Said coil is conical and its base runs substantially parallel to the faces of the dishes.

Claims

1. Anti-theft tag, comprising dishes which are fixed to each other, and one of which is provided with a feed-through hole for feeding through a pin with a head, said dishes having faces bounding an internal space in which an unlockable lock for locking the fed-through pin and a circuit made up of a coil and a capacitor is accommodated, in which the coil of the circuit is conical and the base of the cone runs substantially parallel to the faces of the dishes.

2. Tag according to claim 1, in which the peripheral edge of the dish provided with the feed-through hole is outwardly higher than the face of the dish.

3. Tag according to claim 2, in which the outer face of the dish provided with the feed-through hole has a recess adjacent to the outside edge of the head of the pin.

4. Tag according to claim 3, in which the wall of the recess closest to the pin head periphery runs at right angles to the face of the dish.

5. Tag according to claim 3 or 4, in which the wall of the recess furthest away from the pin head periphery forms an obtuse angle with the bottom of the dish.

6. Tag according to claim 1, in which at the periphery of the tag one dish slots over the peripheral face of the other, and the peripheral face of the latter dish runs inwards at an angle to the dish face.