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Device for protecting works of art

US4458241A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateSep 1, 1981
Grant dateJul 3, 1984
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Expiry dateSep 1, 2001

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG08B13/149
  • WIPO fieldControl
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An anti-theft device having a pair of contact elements mountable on a picture frame, one of the elements being pendulously swingable with reference to the other so as to contact or break contact with the other element when the picture is disturbed, and thereby actuating a circuit which sets off an alarm.

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