Abstract: A display cabinet for storing and displaying merchandise for sale to consumers is provided with one or more doors, each door being locked by a locking mechanism that can be released by a signal from a remotely located, hand-held RF transmitter operated by a store clerk or cashier. Visual and audible alarms are provided for alerting store personnel to forcible entry into the cabinet and for warning store personnel when the cabinet doors have been open for a time period in excess of a predetermined time period.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 24, 1993
Date of Patent:
February 21, 1995
Assignee:
Intermark Corporation
Inventors:
Jack N. Figh, Robert V. Cuddihy, Jr., Stanley H. Buchholtz, Tatsuo Rushing
Abstract: A promotional device requiring customer interaction is presented comprising a removable, tamper-resistant housing with a slot in the housing for accepting an encoded substrate. The substrate has a coded area and a validation area. An electromechanical assembly located within the housing comprises means for aligning the substrate, means for scanning the encoded area of the substrate, and means for validating the substrate in the validation area.
Abstract: A customer interactive promotional device comprising housing means including snap together front cover and back cover, mounting means with snap together means for attachment to said housing means, and interactive means comprising a keypad, microprocessor and signal means wherein assembly of the device requires no tools or hardware.