Tamper-proof display

• US 6,476,717 B2
• Filed: 03/28/2001
• Issued: 11/05/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 04/12/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: CDA Industries Incorporated
• Original Assignee: CDA Industries Incorporated
• Inventors: Stanescu, Simion, Gross, Paul Herman
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Benjamin C.
• Assistant Examiner(s): PHAM, TOAN NGOC
• Application Number:
  US09/819,303
• Publication Number:
  US 20020011547A1
• Time in Patent Office: 587 Days
• Field of Search: 340/568.1, 340/568.2, 340/568.3, 340/568.4, 340/568.8, 340/571, 340/572.1, 340/572.8, 340/572.9, 261/DIG.14
• US Class Current: 340/568.1
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 7/024 with provisions for preventing unauthorised removal show cases with devices for prevention of theft A47F3/002; devices for locking portable objects against unauthorised removal E05B73/0017
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/1463 Physical arrangements, e.g. housings devices to prevent theft or loss of purses, luggage or hand carried bags A45C13/18

Abstract

A security display system typically used to display, and permit the handling of, costly items such as cameras, video cameras and recorders, while preventing the theft of those items. The system permits persons to handle the item and prevents theft of the item through a cable which acts to tether the item, provide power to the item and trigger an alarm if it is cut or disconnected. The cable is largely hidden until the item is picked up, as the cable runs through the item support and under the counter.

Claims

1. A releasable display for use with an anti-theft security device, comprising:

a pedestal defining a passage;

a product mount defining a channel suitable for containing a cable;

a display item attachment on the product mount;

a cable adapted to be connected to an alarm disposed through said passage and said channel; and

a connection member on the product mount releasably engageable with the pedestal,

wherein said cable adapted to be connected to said alarm is positioned to run through the pedestal and the product mount.

2. The releasable display of claim 1, wherein the connection member is rotatably engageable with the pedestal.

3. The releasable display of claim 2, wherein:

the passage is round; and

the connection member is cylindrical and fits within the passage.

4. The releasable display of claim 3, further comprising a display item attachment.

5. The releasable display of claim 4, wherein the display item attachment comprises:

a shoulder positioning surface on the pedestal; and

a mount positioning surface on the product mount,

wherein the mount and shoulder positioning surfaces meet when the connection member is engaged with the pedestal, and wherein the mount and shoulder positioning surfaces are configured such that when the connection member is engaged with the pedestal, the product rotates to a particular position relative to the pedestal.

6. The releasable display of claim 4, wherein the shoulder positioning surface is annular.

7. The releasable display of claim 6, wherein the shoulder positioning surface approximates a section of a plane, said plane being oblique to the axis of rotation defined by the rotation of the product mount relative to the pedestal when the connection member is engaged with the pedestal.

8. The releasable display of claim 2, further comprising a display item attachment.

9. The releasable display of claim 8, wherein the display item attachment comprises:

a shoulder positioning surface on the pedestal; and

a mount positioning surface on the product mount, wherein the mount and positioning surfaces meet when the connection member is engaged with the pedestal, and

wherein the mount and shoulder positioning surfaces are configured such that when the connection member is engaged with the pedestal, the product mount rotates to a particular position relative to the pedestal.

10. The releasable display of claim 8, further comprising means for adjusting the position that the product mount rotates to and remains in, relative to the pedestal.

11. The releasable display of claim 10, wherein the position adjusting means comprises:

a pedestal bottom on the pedestal which rotatably engages the shoulder positioning surface; and

a rotation lock for fixing the position of the shoulder positioning surface relative to the pedestal bottom.

12. The releasable display of claim 1, wherein the display item attachment comprises:

a bolt with a threaded end engageable in a threaded bore in the display item;

and

a mounting surface defining a hole through which the threaded end of the bolt may pass.

13. The releasable display of claim 12, wherein the attachment means further comprises a pin projecting from the mounting surface.