Security collar for media discs

1. A security collar for a merchandise display package having a base and a closure cover forming a container for holding merchandise, said collar comprising:

a pair of housing members joinable together and moveable between open and closed positions;

a magnetically actuated lock mechanism carried by the collar for locking the housing members together in the closed position;

a security tag carried by the collar; and

spaced projections formed on the housing members for trapping the base and cover of the display package therebetween when the housing members are in the locked position.

2. The security collar defined in claim 1 wherein one of the housing members includes a slide plate and a slider slidably mounted for linear movement on said slide plate, said slider being provided with a plurality of locking fingers lockingly engageable with a plurality of locking fingers fixed on the other housing member to secure the housing members in locked position.

3. The security collar defined in claim 2 wherein the slide plate is formed with at least one locking aperture; in which the slider includes at least one magnetically attractable locking plunger spring biased toward locking engagement in the locking aperture when said slider is moved to a locking position on said slide plate.

4. The security collar defined in claim 3 wherein the spring biased plunger is mounted with a boss; in which the slide plate has a slide rib slidably engaged by the plunger boss as the slider is moved linearly between locked and unlocked positions.

5. The security collar defined in claim 3 in which the slide plate is formed with a pair of locking apertures and the slider includes a pair of spring biased locking plungers mutually engageable with said apertures when in locked position.

6. The security collar defined in claim 2 wherein the other housing member includes a cover plate attached to said other housing member; in which the locking fingers are formed on the cover plate; and in which the security tag is attached to said cover plate.

7. The security collar defined in claim 1 wherein each of the housing member has a generally semi-circular side wall; in which the spaced projections of the housing members include an arcuate projection extending inwardly from each of the side walls and a chordal-shaped projection formed on each of the side walls generally at the center of curvature of said side walls and spaced from said arcuate projections.

8. The security collar defined in claim 1 in which each of the housing members includes a plurality of locking fingers mutually engageable with each other to secure the housing members in locked position.

9. The security collar defined in claim 8 in which the locking fingers of one of the housing members are slidably linearly moveable with respect to the locking fingers on the other of said housing members for locking and unlocking the fingers with respect to each other.

10. The security collar defined in claim 1 in which each of the housing members has a generally semi-circular configuration pivotally connected together at one end and swingable between open and closed positions.

11. In combination, a container for storing a plurality of discs in a stacked relationship and a security collar mounted on the container and selectably lockable thereon to prevent opening of the container;

said container having a base for supporting the discs in a stacked relationship and a cover removably mounted on the base and enclosing the discs to prevent removal of the discs from the container when the collar is in a closed locked position;

the security collar being mounted on the base preventing removal of the cover from the base when in the closed locked position;

a lock mechanism carried by the collar for locking the collar in the closed locked position; and

a security tag carried by the collar.

12. The combination defined in claim 11 wherein the container cover and base include a plurality of mutually engageable latching tabs to removably latch the cover on the base; in which the security collar includes a pair of housing members joinable together in the closed locked position; and in which said housing members include spaced projections which trap the latching tabs of the container base and cover therebetween when the housing members are in the closed locked position to prevent removal of the base and cover from the locking collar.

13. The combination defined in claim 12 in which each of the housing members has a generally semi-circular configuration pivotally connected together at one end and swingable between open and closed positions.

14. The combination defined in claim 12 in which each of the housing members includes a plurality of locking fingers mutually engageable with each other to secure the housing members in the closed locked position.

15. The combination defined in claim 14 in which the locking fingers have generally L-shaped configurations.

16. The combination defined in claim 15 in which the locking fingers of one of the housing members are slidably linearly moveable with respect to the locking fingers on the other of said housing members for locking and unlocking the fingers with respect to each other.

17. The combination defined in claim 11 in which the lock mechanism includes magnetically attractable locking plungers extendable between the housing members when in the closed position.

18. The combination defined in claim 11 wherein each of the housing members is formed with a raised external arcuate rib which is complementary with an arcuate rib formed on the base of the container to enable a lower container to stackably receive the security collar of an adjacent container in a nested relationship thereon.

19. The combination defined in claim 11 wherein one of the housing members includes a slide plate and a slider slidably mounted for linear movement on said slide plate, said slider being provided with a plurality of locking fingers lockingly engageable with a plurality of locking fingers fixed on the other housing member to secure the housing members in locked position.

20. A security collar for a merchandise display package having a base and a closure cover forming a container for holding merchandise, said collar comprising:

a pair of housing members pivotally joined together and moveable between open and closed positions;

a lock mechanism carried by the collar for locking the housing members in the closed position;

a security tag carried by the collar; and

projections formed on the housing members for trapping the base and cover of the display package therebetween when the housing members are in the locked position.