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Detrimental-substance-containing theft-deterrent device

  • US 5,031,287 A
  • Filed: 06/01/1989
  • Issued: 07/16/1991
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/01/1989
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A device for deterring theft of a protected article, comprisingmeans for attaching the device to the article, with said attaching means being embodied in two components that are adapted to be locked together on opposite sides of a portion of said article to prevent unauthorized removal of the device from the article;

  • wherein one component includes a plurality of fragile elongated vials that fracture when flexed longitudinally, with each vial containing a detrimental substance that would damage the article if the vial were to be fractured while the device was attached to the article;

    wherein the vial-containing component is so structured as to include a plurality of regions in which the vial-containing component flexes more easily in a predetermined direction than in other directions and regions, with the predetermined direction of easier flexing being different in different said given regions; and

    wherein said vials are respectively disposed within each of the given regions of the vial-containing component such that when any of the given regions of the vial-containing component is flexed in the predetermined direction of easier-flexing for said given region, the vial disposed in said region is flexed longitudinally and fractures to thereby release the substance contained therein.

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