Patent ID: 8341987
Filing Date: 2013-01-01
Classification: A47F,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A security device for locking a merchandise display rod assembly to a support structure, said device comprising: a housing adapted to be slidably received on the merchandise display rod assembly, said housing containing a locking mechanism disposed in an interior chamber and including a compression spring seated in a shuttle assembly, said shuttle assembly made of a magnetically attractable material that is sized and shaped for reciprocal travel within the interior chamber, the shuttle assembly being moveable within the interior chamber between a locked position and an unlocked position against a biasing force of the compression spring biasing the shuttle assembly towards the locked position; and a recess formed in the housing and extending inwardly from an exterior surface thereof in the direction of the interior chamber of the housing terminating proximate the interior chamber opposite the compression spring and the shuttle assembly; said recess being adapted to receive a dipole magnet therein for moving the shuttle assembly from the locked position to the unlocked position and permitting the housing to slide on the merchandise display rod assembly away from the support structure to thereby unlock the merchandise display rod assembly from the support structure.