Patent ID: 9598882
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: E05B,G08B

Claim:
1. A device for protecting an article against theft, and/or identifying it, comprising a badge with passage suitable for receiving a metal pin which passes through the article or which is attached to a lanyard surrounding the article, the badge comprising means for locking the pin in the passage and preventing its extraction without a detaching appliance, a first face of the badge turned toward the pin being essentially planar, the pin being able to be securely attached to a head with an extent that corresponds to that of the first face of the badge, wherein the badge has a peripheral flank provided with a translational guiding means suitable for cooperating with a cylindrical or prismatic conjugate guiding surface, provided in a housing of the detaching appliance, and a second face of the badge, distant from the head of the pin, is planar, essentially parallel to the first face, wherein the peripheral flank comprises first rims, which protrude transversely from the flank according to a contour designed to closely follow the conjugate guiding surface, and which constitute the translational guiding means, and wherein the peripheral flank of the badge has a peripheral recess, bounded by two of the first rims, designed to receive a first identifying tag of a thickness less than the transverse protrusion of the first rims, the first identifying tag surrounding, at least partially, the badge.