Patent ID: 7602297

Claim:
A security device for attaching to an article to be protected from theft, said device comprising: a rigid housing; a strap connected to and extending outwardly from the housing and having an unsecured position and a secured position in which the entire strap is oriented substantially horizontally and in which the strap and housing together form a closed loop around an article-receiving space adapted to receive a first portion of the article with second and third portions of the article extending respectively upwardly and downwardly from the first portion respectively beyond the article-receiving space; a pair of spaced sidewalls on the housing which in the secured position are upper and lower vertically spaced sidewalls; a flange rigidly connected to the spaced sidewalls and which in the secured position extends at least one of upwardly beyond the upper sidewall and downwardly beyond the lower sidewall; and an article contact surface on the flange bounding the article-receiving space, having a vertical width in the secured position greater than the vertically spaced upper and lower sidewalls and adapted to contact the article.