Patent ID: 8052180

Claim:
A tamper-evident cargo seal, comprising: a) a pin, said pin having a first end and a second end, said first end separated from said second end a user-definable distance, and said second end having a user-definable keying; b) a body member, said body member having at least one side surface, a top surface, and a bottom surface, said at least one side surface having at least one slot through the side surface extending from the top surface to a user-definable distance from the bottom surface and extending a user-definable distance into the interior of the body member, said slot extending into the interior of the body member shaped to accept said second end of said pin having a user-definable keying; c) two parallel guide members having a user-definable keying, said parallel guide members affixed to and abutting the top surface of said body member and a portion of the at least one side surface forming a user-definable area between the two parallel guide members and the at least one side surface, at least one of said two parallel guide members abutting said at least one slot through the side surface of said body member such that said pin can pass through said guide member to said body member; d) two removable security label blanks, each of said two removable security blanks having a user-definable thickness, a user-definable shape, at least one adjoining surface wherein said at least one adjoining surface further comprising at least one protrusion extending from said at least one adjoining surface, and a corresponding keying that engages said corresponding keying of the other removable security label blank and requires one-way insertion of each of said at least two removable security label blanks wherein each of said two removable security label blanks are inserted in opposing directions and are slideably positioned as a single unit on top of said body member and between said two parallel guide members, and covering substantially the entire area bound by the two parallel guide members and said at least one side surface; and e) a cover, said cover slideably extending over said top surface of said body member and abutting two parallel guide members, a portion of the at least one side surface, and substantially covering the two removable security label blanks.