Security locking bag with locking security reinforcement shield

• US 5,820,267 A
• Filed: 10/08/1993
• Issued: 10/13/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 10/08/1993
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Banksupplies, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Block and Company Incorporated
• Inventors: Nobles, Columbus
• Primary Examiner(s): Foster, Jimmy G.
• Application Number:
  US08/134,284
• Time in Patent Office: 1,831 Days
• Field of Search: 206/0.8, 206/0.81-0.84, 206/1.5, 70/64-68, 292/57, 292/60, 383/97, 383/105, 383/903
• US Class Current: 383/97
• CPC Class Codes: A44B 19/301 at the end of their upward travel with any suitable device, e.g. pull member combined with a press-button, a hook, a key-operated lock
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/5053 Interengageable slide fastener type

Abstract

The present invention provides a security locking bag for holding currency and coin comprising a fabric bag open along one side, the open side of the bag having a lock end and a zipper end. A zipper is attached to the fabric bag along the open side of the bag to allow the open side of the bag to be closed by pulling a sliding piece. A lock is positioned at the lock end of the open side of the bag, the lock including a body portion and locks by capturing and retaining the sliding piece. A flexible reinforcing material is folded over onto itself, to straddle the bag at the lock end of the bag. A rigid reinforcement shield is disposed between the sides of the flexible reinforcing material. The rigid reinforcement shield is sized and shaped to conform to the size and shape of the body portion of the lock and is positioned to hold one side of the flexible reinforcing material tightly against the body portion of the lock. The metal reinforcement shield and flexible reinforcing material are secured to the body portion of the lock.

Claims

1. A bag for holding currency and coin comprising:

a fabric bag open along one side, the open side of the bag having a lock end and a zipper end;

a zipper attached to the fabric bag along the open side of the bag to allow the open side of the bag to be closed, the zipper including a sliding piece that is slidable between the zipper end of the open side of the bag and the lock end of the open side of the bag;

a lock positioned at the lock end of the open side of the bag, the lock including a body portion and means for capturing and retaining the sliding piece;

a flexible reinforcing material secured to the fabric bag and folded over onto itself to form opposing sides that straddle the bag fabric at the lock end of the bag;

a rigid reinforcement shield disposed between the sides of the flexible reinforcing material, the rigid reinforcement shield being sized and shaped to conform to the size and shape of the body portion of the lock and positioned to hold one side of the flexible reinforcing material tightly against the body portion of the lock; and

means for connecting the rigid reinforcement shield and flexible reinforcing material to the body portion of the lock.

2. A bag for holding currency and coin comprising:

a fabric bag open along one side, the open side of the bag having a lock end and a zipper end;

a zipper attached to the fabric bag along the open side of the bag to allow the open side of the bag to be closed, the zipper including a sliding piece that is slidable between the zipper end of the open side of the bag and the lock end of the open side of the bag;

a lock positioned at the lock end of the open side of the bag, the lock including a body portion having a front surface and means for capturing and retaining the sliding piece, the means for capturing and retaining the sliding piece including a ledge extending outwardly and perpendicularly from the front surface of the body portion of the lock and a plunger reciprocable in the body portion of the lock in a direction parallel to the front surface of the body portion of the lock, the plunger including a shoulder extending over and spaced from the ledge;

a flexible reinforcing material folded over onto itself to form opposing sides that straddle the bag at the lock end of the bag;

a rigid reinforcement shield disposed between the sides of the flexible reinforcing material, the rigid reinforcement shield being sized and shaped to conform to the size and shape of the body portion of the lock so that it extends past the front surface of the body portion of the lock, to cover a portion of the ledge, the rigid reinforcement shield being positioned to hold one side of the flexible reinforcing material tightly against the body portion of the lock; and

means for connecting the rigid reinforcement shield and flexible reinforcing material to the body portion of the lock.

3. A bag as claimed in claim 2 wherein the rigid reinforcement shield includes stepped portions extending toward the zipper end of the bag past the front surface of the body portion of the lock.

4. A bag as claimed in claim 2 wherein the flexible reinforcing material is substantially coextensive with the rigid reinforcing shield.

5. A bag as claimed in claim 2 wherein the flexible reinforcing material has a pair of tapering front edges extending toward the front surface of the body portion of the lock.

6. A locking security reinforcement shield for protecting a lock of the type having a substantially U-shaped body, the shield comprising a rigid shield having a pair of front edges, a U-shaped bottom edge, a U-shaped top edge, and two stepped edges, wherein the pair of front edges are substantially parallel to each other, the U-shaped top and bottom edges are substantially parallel to each other and perpendicular to the pair of front edges, and wherein the two stepped edges connect the ends of the U-shaped top edge to ends of the pair of front edges, the stepped edges including angled segments converging from the ends of the U-shaped top edge toward the U-shaped bottom edge and flat segments extending from the ends of the angled segments to the front edges, the flat segments being substantially perpendicular to the front edges.

7. A bag for holding currency and coin comprising:

a bag having an open side, the open side of the bag having a locking end and a zipper end and a pair of parallel edges;

a zipper including a pair of rows of teeth attached along the parallel edges of the open side of the bag, the zipper also including a sliding piece slidable between the zipper end of the open side of the bag and the locking end to close the bag;

a lock disposed at the locking end of the open side of the bag, the lock including a main body portion having a flat top surface, a flat front surface perpendicular to the flat lock top, a flat bottom surface and a curved U-shaped surface joining the flat top surface, flat bottom surface and the flat front surface, the lock further including a ledge extending outwardly and perpendicularly from the flat front surface toward the zipper end of the open side of the bag and a plunger reciprocable within the main body portion of the lock in a direction parallel to the front surface of the lock, the plunger including a shoulder extending over and spaced above the ledge, the plunger being lockable in a closed position to capture and retain the sliding piece of the zipper between the ledge and the shoulder of the plunger;

a piece of flexible reinforcing material folded over onto itself to define inner and outer surfaces joined by a folded edge, the outer surface of the flexible reinforcing material being attached to the bag at the locking end of the bag, the folded edge of the flexible reinforcing material being positioned around the curved U-shaped portion of the main body portion of the lock near the top surface of the lock, the inner surface of the flexible reinforcing material surrounding the curved U-shaped portion of the main body portion of the lock and covering substantially the entire curved U-shaped portion of the main body portion of the lock;

a substantially U-shaped rigid reinforcement shield surrounding the inner surface of the flexible reinforcing material, the rigid reinforcement shield substantially conforming to the shape of the U-shaped portion of the main body portion of the lock and extending from below the folded edge of the flexible reinforcing material to the bottom surface of the lock, the rigid reinforcement shield including stepped portions extending toward the zipper end of the bag past the front surface of the main body portion of the lock; and

means for connecting the rigid reinforcement shield and flexible reinforcing material to the main body portion of the lock.

8. A bag as claimed in claim 7 wherein the inner surface of the flexible reinforcement material has a pair of tapering front edges extending toward the front surface of the main body portion of the lock.

9. A bag as claimed in claim 7 wherein the folded edge of the flexible reinforcing material has two ends disposed past the front surface of the main body portion of the lock.

10. A bag as claimed in claim 7 wherein the rigid reinforcement shield includes a top edge and a pair of front edges perpendicular to the top edge, the top edge comprising a substantially U-shaped segment, angled segments extending from the U-shaped segment, and flat segments extending from the angles segments to the front edges, the flat segments covering a portion of the ledge.