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G09F 3/14 (2006.01) B65D 63/10 (2006.01) G09F 3/03 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1038601
A B S T R A C T Disclosed is a tamperproof shackle seal formed from a one-piece plastics moulding, which seal comprises a strap, a plug at one end of the strap and a socket at the other end of the strap. The plug has a leading end and a shoulder which faces away from the leading end and the socket has a sleeve-like wall which is closed at one end and has an open mouth at its other end. A number of resilient fingers are fixed at first ends thereof to the wall of the socket and extend generally axially away from the mouth so that their remote ends are located in the socket. Each resilient finger is connected along its length to the wall by a respective web. A portion of the plug which in use co-operates with a first portion of the socket lying adjacent to the socket mouth has substantially similar non-circular internal and external outlines. respectively thereto, when viewed axially. At least a part of the internal outline of the first portion lies radially outwards of an internal outline of an immediately adjacent second portion of the socket to define thereby a further shoulder which faces the mouth, Insertion of the plug into the socket causes the fingers to be flexed radially outwards, against the bias exerted by the webs, until they can spring back for their remote ends to abut the shoulder and hold the plug captive in the socket. Insertion of a tool to occasion subsequent flexing of all the fingers is prevented by the further shoulder.
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