Patent ID: 6832498
Filing Date: 2004-12-21
Classification: E05B,Y10T

Abstract:
A security device for displaying an item of merchandise; the security device securely holding an EAS tag with the item of merchandise so that the item of merchandise cannot be removed from the EAS tag without breaking an element of the security device unless a specially designed key is used to open the security device; the item of merchandise having at least one side; the security device comprising:a frame adapted to receive and at least partially surround the item of merchandise; the frame defining a storage compartment and an access opening through which the item of merchandise may be loaded into the storage compartment and unloaded from the storage compartment; a slide carried inside the storage compartment; the slide movable between locked and unlocked positions; the slide having an inner end and an outer end and a longitudinal dimension extending between the inner and outer ends; a lock tab connected to the outer end of the slide; the lock tab blocking a portion of the access opening when the slide is in the locked position such that the lock tab is adapted to prevent the merchandise from being unloaded from the storage compartment when the slide is in the locked position; a locking mechanism disposed between the slide and the frame; the locking mechanism includes two resilient locking fingers that extend up from a common lock frame; each locking finger being a thin resilient metal tab; the common lock frame being a thin metal frame; the locking fingers being punched from the common lock frame; the locking fingers being configured to move between locked and unlocked positions wherein the locking fingers engage the slide at spaced locations when the locking fingers are in the locked position; wherein the slide defines two locking ledges each bounding a side of a pair of respective depressions formed in the slide; the locking fingers engaging the locking ledges when the slide is in the locked position; and wherein the slide further defines a pair of lateral locking walls disposed adjacent the locking ledges to prevent the locking fingers from moving laterally with respect to the longitudinal dimension of the slide when the locking fingers are engaged with the locking ledges.