Electronic article surveillance marker assembly

• US 6,753,779 B1
• Filed: 02/11/2003
• Issued: 06/22/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 02/11/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: B & G Plastics Incorporated
• Original Assignee: B & G Plastics Incorporated
• Inventors: Whittemore, Robert, Kolton, Chester, Norman, Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): GOINS, DAVETTA WOODS
• Application Number:
  US10/364,493
• Time in Patent Office: 497 Days
• Field of Search: 340/572.1, 340/572.8, 340/571, 340/5.8, 340/568.1, 340/693.9, 340/693.12, 206/021, 294/28, 402/990.1, 403/00, 403/01, 403/02, 406/25, 406/69, 292/307.R, 235/487, 235/375, 361/600
• US Class Current: 340/572.1
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 51/02 by pneumatic or hydraulic means E05B17/0029 takes precedence
• 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: G08B 13/2434 Tag housing and attachment details

Abstract

An electronic article surveillance assembly comprises a housing defining an interior compartment, an electronic article surveillance marker secured in the interior compartment, and a securement device insertable in the housing and having securement structure extending outwardly of the housing for attaching the housing to an article of manufacture.

Claims

1. In combination:

a tool having an inlet for receiving a fluid medium for operating said tool; and

an electronic article surveillance marker assembly, comprising a first housing having an electronic article surveillance marker secured therein, a second housing and a securement member extending through and exteriorly of said second housing and in secured relation in said tool inlet, said second housing being secured with said first housing following said securement of said securement member in said tool inlet to define said assembly, a tightening portion of said securement member being in spaced facing relation to said electronic article surveillance marker interiorly of said assembly.

2. The invention claimed in claim 1, wherein said tool inlet is interiorly threaded and wherein said securement member is exteriorly threaded and in meshed relation to the inlet interior threading.

3. The invention claimed in claim 1, wherein said first housing and said second housing jointly define detent structure for securing said first and second housings to one another.

4. The invention claimed in claim 1, wherein said first and second housings and said securement member are comprised of plastic.