Article identification and surveillance tag

• US 6,304,184 B1
• Filed: 12/17/1999
• Issued: 10/16/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: B & G Plastics Incorporated
• Original Assignee: B & G Plastics Incorporated
• Inventors: Kolton, Chester, Norman, Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): Hofsass, Jeffery A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): PHAM, TOAN NGOC
• Application Number:
  US09/466,112
• Time in Patent Office: 669 Days
• Field of Search: 340/572.8, 340/572.1, 340/572.4, 340/572.5, 340/825.54, 340/568.1, 340/571, 206/460, 206/444, 206/818, 206/813
• US Class Current: 340/572.8
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/2434 Tag housing and attachment details

Abstract

An article identification and surveillance tag comprises an elongate member having in longitudinal succession a top segment, a first fold portion, an intermediate segment, a second fold portion, a bottom segment, an EAS marker being secured centrally of at least one of a front surface of the intermediate segment and a front surface of said bottom segment, permanent sealable matter being disposed at marginal parts of at least one of the front surface of the intermediate segment and the front surface of said bottom segment, at least one of the rear surface of the bottom segment and the front surface of the top segment bearing a releasable sealable matter.

Claims

1. An article identification and surveillance tag comprising an elongate member having in longitudinal succession a top segment, a first fold portion, an intermediate segment, a second fold portion, a bottom segment, an EAS marker being secured centrally of at least one of a front surface of the intermediate segment and a front surface of said bottom segment, permanent sealable matter being disposed at marginal parts of at least one of the front surface of the intermediate segment and the front surface of said bottom segment, at least one of the rear surface of the bottom segment and the front surface of the top segment bearing a releasable sealable matter.

2. The article identification and surveillance tag claimed in claim 1, wherein a secured pocket containing said EAS marker is formed on folding of the bottom segment onto the intermediate segment.

3. The article identification and surveillance tag claimed in claim 2, wherein at least one of a rear surface of said top segment and the rear surface of the bottom segment bear imprinted legends.

4. The article identification and surveillance tag claimed in claim 2, wherein said releasable sealable matter is transparent.

5. The article identification and surveillance tag claimed in claim 3, wherein said releasable sealable matter is transparent.

6. The article identification and surveillance tag claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one of a rear surface of said top segment and the rear surface of the bottom segment bear imprinted legends.

7. The article identification and surveillance tag claimed in claim 6, wherein said releasable sealable matter is transparent.

8. The article identification and surveillance tag claimed in claim 1, wherein said releasable sealable matter is transparent.

9. The article identification and surveillance tag claimed in claim 1, wherein said top segment defines an aperture therethrough adjacent said first fold portion.

10. The article identification and surveillance tag claimed in claim 1, wherein said intermediate segment defines an aperture therethrough adjacent said first fold portion.

11. The article identification and surveillance tag claimed in claim 1, wherein said bottom segment defines an aperture therethrough adjacent a bottom margin of said bottom segment.

12. An upstanding article identification and surveillance tag comprising, in transverse succession, a first downwardly folded segment, a releasable sealable matter, an upwardly folded segment, an EAS marker bounded by permanent sealable matter, a second downwardly folded segment, a first fold portion being connected to said first downwardly folded segment and said second downwardly folded segment and a second fold portion being connected to said second downwardly folded segment and said upwardly folded segment.