Security package with internal pocket for a surveillance tag

• US 5,601,188 A
• Filed: 04/18/1996
• Issued: 02/11/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 04/18/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Bongard Family Holdings, LLC
• Original Assignee: Emplast, Inc.
• Inventors: Dressen, Larry, Gregerson, Barry
• Primary Examiner(s): Foster, Jimmy G.
• Application Number:
  US08/634,444
• Time in Patent Office: 299 Days
• Field of Search: 206/1.5, 206/307, 206/309, 206/308.2, 206/387.11, 206/807, 206/459.1, 206/459.5
• US Class Current: 206/308.2
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 73/0023 Containers, boxes, cases or the like, e.g. for compact discs or video-cassettes, specially adapted therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 23/0233 Containers for a single cassette
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 33/0405 for storing discs anti-theft cases with locking means E05B73/0023
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 206/807 Tamper proof

Abstract

A security package having a locking mechanism capable of securely encompassing an audio cassette, a video cassette, compact disc, or the like within the security package, wherein the security package has an internally disposed pocket for receiving an electronic article surveillance (EAS) tag therewithin. The EAS cavity or pocket is completely sealed and tamper-proof while in the audio-video article is locked within the security package and the locking mechanism does not interfere or intrude within the EAS cavity.

Claims

1. An anti-theft security package comprising:

a frame member of unibody construction having a handle member integrally attached to a containment structure, said containment structure including an article containment area, a surveillance tag containment area, a lock structure disposed between said article containment area and said surveillance tag containment area, and a rotating lid member;

said article containment area including a generally rectangular access aperture for inserting and removing an article into and out of said article containment area;

said surveillance tag containment area including an access aperture for inserting and removing a surveillance tag into and out of said surveillance tag containment area;

said lock structure including first locking means formed therein;

said rotating lid member having a surveillance tag enclosing portion hingedly attached to said surveillance tag containment area, a lock portion extending from said surveillance tag enclosing portion, and an article securing portion extending from said lock portion, said lock portion having second locking means aligned with said first locking means of said lock structure;

whereby the hinged rotation of said rotating lid member seals said access aperture of said surveillance tag containment area with said surveillance tag enclosing portion, lockedly engages said first locking means and said second locking means, and secures said article within said article containment area with said article securing portion.

2. The anti-theft security package as set forth in claim 1 and further, said surveillance tag containment area including a pocket structure attached to said lock structure, wherein said access aperture of said surveillance tag containment area is formed along an upper plane of said pocket structure and said surveillance tag enclosing portion of said rotating lid member is hingedly attached to an upper portion of said pocket structure.

3. The anti-theft security package as set forth in claim 2 and further, wherein said article containment area includes at least one viewing aperture disposed opposite said access aperture of said article containment area.

4. The anti-theft security package set forth in claim 3 and further, wherein said first locking means comprises at least one engagement aperture having opposing angled teeth and said second locking means comprises at least one engagement member having opposing beveled surfaces for mating with said angled teeth.

5. The anti-theft security package as set forth in claim 4 and further, said pocket structure including first and second side walls extending from said lock structure, an end wall extending between said first and second side walls, and a bottom member extending between said first and second side walls, said end wall, and said lock area opposite from said access aperture of said surveillance tag containment area, wherein said surveillance tag enclosing portion of said rotating lid member is hingedly attached to said end wall.

6. A security package of unibody construction for use with an audio-visual article, such as an audio cassette, a video cassette, a compact disc, and the like, comprising:

a handle member integrally connected to a containment structure;

said containment structure including surveillance tag containment means for receiving a surveillance tag, article containment means for receiving an audio-visual article therein, and lid means hingedly attached to said surveillance tag containment means for enclosing said surveillance tag therewithin and for securing said audio-visual article within said article containment means.

7. The security package as set forth in claim 6 and further, comprising first locking means disposed between said surveillance tag containment means and said article containment means, said lid means including second locking means for engagedly locking with said first locking means to lock said surveillance tag within said surveillance tag containment means and to lock said audio-visual article within said article containment means.

8. The security package as set forth in claim 7 and further, wherein said surveillance tag containment means comprises a generally rectangular box having a single access aperture, and said article containment means comprises a generally rectangular box having a single access aperture and at least one viewing aperture.

9. The security package as set forth in claim 8 and further, wherein said lid means comprises a generally planar enclosing portion for sealing said access aperture of said surveillance tag containment means, a generally planar securing portion capable of extending partially into said access aperture of said article containment means to secure said audio-visual article therewithin, said second locking means being disposed between said enclosing portion and said securing portion.

10. The security package as set forth in claim 9 and further, wherein said first locking means comprises at least one engagement aperture and said second locking means comprises at least one engagement member.

11. The security package as set forth in claim 10 and further, wherein said at least one engagement aperture includes opposing angled teeth members and said at least one engagement member includes opposing beveled surfaces for mating with a top surface of said angled teeth members.

12. A security package of unibody construction comprising:

a handle member attached to a containment structure;

said containment structure including a surveillance tag pocket having a single access aperture, an article pocket having a single access aperture and at least one viewing aperture, a lid member hingedly attached to said surveillance tag pocket, and first lock means disposed between said surveillance tag pocket and said article pocket; and

said lid member having an enclosing portion capable of sealing off said access aperture of said surveillance tag pocket, a securing portion capable of extending partially into said access aperture of said article pocket to secure an article therewithin, and second lock means disposed between said enclosing portion and said securing portion capable of lockingly engaging with said first lock means to maintain said enclosing portion in sealed relation over said access aperture of said surveillance tag pocket and to maintain said securing portion in position within said access aperture of said article pocket to secure said article therewithin.

13. The security package as set forth in claim 12 and further, wherein said first lock means comprises at least one engagement aperture and said second lock means comprises at least one engagement member.

14. The security package as set forth in claim 13 and further, wherein said at least one engagement aperture includes opposing angled teeth members and said at least one engagement member includes opposing beveled surfaces for mating with a top surface of said angled teeth members.

15. The security package as set forth in claim 12, said surveillance tag pocket comprising a generally rectangular shaped box having first and second side walls, first and second end walls extending between said first and second side walls, wherein said enclosing portion of said lid member is hingedly attached to said second end wall.