Multi-lock security device and detaching device for use therewith

• US 8,051,686 B2
• Filed: 11/30/2007
• Issued: 11/08/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Glen Walter Garner
• Original Assignee: Glen Walter Garner
• Inventors: Garner, Glen Walter
• Primary Examiner(s): Barrett; Suzanne
• Assistant Examiner(s): BOSWELL, CHRISTOPHER J
• Application Number:
  US11/987,558
• Publication Number:
  US 20090139279A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,439 Days
• Field of Search: 70/571, 702/76, 702/791, 247/041, 247/042, 340/568.1, 340/571, 340/572.1, 340/572.8, 340/572.9
• US Class Current: 70/57.1
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 17/2015 with wedging action
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 63/121 using balls or the like cooperating with notches
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 73/0052 of the magnetic type
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/50 Readily interlocking, two-part fastener requiring either destructive or tool disengagement
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/5004 For antitheft signaling device on protected article
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/5009 For portable articles
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/7057 Permanent magnet

Abstract

A security device for use in association with a security pin includes a tag body, a spring lock and a magnetic lock. The tag body has a body aperture formed therein adapted to receive the security pin. The spring lock is situated within the tag body and has a spring lock aperture formed therein in registration with the body aperture. The spring lock is adapted to engage the security pin when in an engaged position and release the security pin when in a released position. The magnetic lock is within the tag body and has a magnetic lock aperture. The magnetic lock is adapted to engage the security pin when in an engaged position and to release the security pin when in a release position. The spring lock and the magnetic lock need to both be in the released position to successfully remove the security pin form the security device. A detaching device to move the spring lock and the magnetic lock into the released such that they are both in the release position at the same time is also shown.

Claims

1. A security device for use in association with a security pin comprising:

a tag body having an body aperture formed therein adapted to receive the security pin;

at least one sensor;

a spring lock within the tag body having a spring lock aperture formed therein in registration with the body aperture and the spring lock being adapted to engage the security pin when in an engaged position and release the security pin when in a released position; and

a magnetic lock within the tag body having a magnetic lock aperture and the magnetic lock being adapted to engage the security pin when in an engaged position and to release the security pin when in a released position and the spring lock and the magnetic lock need to both be in the released position to successfully remove the security pin from the security device,

wherein the tag body includes an arcuate channel leading from the exterior of the tag body to the spring lock, the arucate channel being adapted to receive and guide an arcuate probe to the spring lock and to move the spring lock from the released position to the engaged position.

2. A security device as claimed in claim 1 wherein the sensor is chosen from the group consisting of an RFID tag, an RF sensor, an AM sensor, an electromagnetic sensor and a combination thereof.

3. A security device as claimed in claim 1 wherein the security device further includes an ink vial.

4. A security device as claimed in claim 1 wherein the magnetic lock is one of a ball clutch type lock, an asymmetric lock and a resilient spring plate magnetic lock.

5. A detaching device for use with a security tag having a spring lock having and engaged position and a released position and a magnetic lock having an engaged position and a released position and a pin adapted to engage the spring lock and the magnetic lock comprising:

a spring lock detacher adapted to move the spring lock from the engaged position to the released position; and

a magnetic lock detacher adapted to move the magnetic lock from the engaged position to the released position whereby the spring lock and the magnetic lock are in the released position at the same time,

wherein the security tag includes an arcuate channel for releasing the spring lock and wherein the spring lock detacher includes an arcuate probe adapted to be inserted into the arcuate channel in the security tag and to engage the spring lock to move it from engaged position to the released position.

6. A detaching device as claimed in claim 5 wherein the magnetic lock is one of a ball clutch type lock, an asymmetric lock, a resilient spring plate magnetic lock and the magnetic lock detacher includes a magnet adapted to move the magnetic lock to the released position.

7. A detaching device for use with a security tag having a spring lock having and engaged position and a released position and a magnetic lock having an engaged position and a released position and a pin adapted to engage the spring lock and the magnetic lock comprising:

a spring lock detacher adapted to move the spring lock from the engaged position to the released position; and

a magnetic lock detacher adapted to move the magnetic lock from the engaged position to the released position whereby the spring lock and the magnetic lock are in the released position at the same time,

wherein the spring lock detacher includes pushers to exert force on the security tag so that the spring lock moves from the engaged position to the released position.

8. A detaching device as claimed in claim 7 wherein the magnetic lock is one of a ball clutch type lock, an asymmetric lock, a resilient spring plate magnetic lock and the magnetic lock detacher includes a magnet adapted to move the magnetic lock to the released position.