Patent ID: 6155087
Filing Date: 2000-12-05
Classification: E05B,Y10T

Abstract:
Reduced-encumbrance anti-theft case (1) for items (3), particularly for compact disks, musicassettes, videocassettes and the like, comprising:a box (5) to contain the item (3) to be protected;a movable abutment member (7, 7') adapted to cooperate with a head (9) of said item (3) when said item (3) is inserted inside said box (5) in order to prevent said item (3) from being extracted from said box (5); anda locking and unlocking device (11, 11') adapted to cooperate with said movable abutment member (7, 7') in order to take said member (7, 7') from an active abutment position wherein said item (3) is unmovably inserted into said box (5) to an inactive releasing position wherein said item (3) is able to be removed from said box (5); characterized in that said box (5) is comprised of:an upper face (15) substantially shaped as a C, said upper face (15) having maximum overall dimensions that are slightly greater than said item (3) to be protected;a lower face (17) substantially shaped as a C, said lower face (17) having maximum overall dimensions that are slightly greater than said item (3) to be protected;a rear holding wall (19), said rear holding wall (19) being connected to two corresponding longer sides (21, 23), respectively, of the C of said upper and lower faces (15, 17); andtwo elongated front holding walls (25, 27), a first one (25) of said front holding walls (25, 22) being connected to two corresponding ends (29, 31), respectively, of one (33, 35) of the two shorter arms of the C respectively of said upper and lower faces (15, 17), a second one (27) of said front holding walls (25, 27) being connected to two corresponding ends (37, 39), respectively, of another one (41, 43) of the two shorter arms of the C respectively of said upper and lower faces (15, 17), the second one (27) of said front holding walls (25, 27) having a cross section shaped as an L so that an arm (45) of the L of said wall (27) abuts against said item (3) when said item (3) is completely inserted into said case (1) in order to prevent said item (3) from being removed from said case (1);wherein said reduced-encumbrance anti-theft case (1) is characterized in that said movable abutment member (7, 7') is connected to said lower face (17) in a longitudinally sliding way with respect to a plane of said box (5), said movable abutment member (7, 7') being shaped as a C that is substantially similar to the C-shape of said lower face (17), said movable abutment member (7, 7') being equipped with a side engagement end (47) positioned with respect to said box (5) on an opposite side with respect to a side where said second front holding wall (27) is provided, said side engagement end (47) being adapted to cooperate with said head (9) of said item (3) in order to prevent said item (3) from being removed from said case (1) when said item (3) has been completely inserted into said case (1).