Patent ID: 6876756

Claim:
A purse security system for maintaining a purse locked until the presentation of a fingerprint of an approved user comprising, in combination: a purse with a first section and a second section, the sections movable between a closed orientation for the secure maintenance of objects there within and an open orientation for adding and removing objects therefrom, each section having an inside and an outside; a touch pad for fingerprint identification attached to the outside of the first section adapted to removably receive a fingerprint of a user; a sensor with at least one pre-stored fingerprint on the inside of the first portion operatively coupled to the touch pad and adapted to generate a signal when a fingerprint of the user on the touch pad matches a pre-stored fingerprint in the sensor; a solenoid on the inside of the first section operatively coupled to the sensor, the solenoid having a plunger reciprocable from a rest position to a withdrawn position in response to a signal from the sensor so long as a fingerprint of a user is on the touch pad which matches a pre-stored fingerprint in the sensor, the plunger having a remote end; and a latch on the inside of the first section attached to the remote end of the plunger for reciprocation there with, the latch having a recess therein facing the first section and an aperture in the first section aligned with the recess; a release assembly for coupling purposes attached to the second section, the release assembly having an exterior region on the outside of the second section and a finger extending inwardly of the inside of the second section through the aperture with an enlarged end removably positionable in the recess of the latch, the finger being securely retained within the recess of the latch to maintain the purse locked in the closed orientation when the latch and solenoid are in the rest position but with the finger being readily removable from the recess and latch to allow the purse to assume the open orientation when the latch and plunger are reciprocated to the withdrawn position in response to a fingerprint of a user on the touch pad matching a pre-stored fingerprint in the sensor.