Locks – Special application – For control and machine elements
Patent
1997-03-27
1998-06-16
Gall, Lloyd A.
Locks
Special application
For control and machine elements
70226, B60R 2502
Patent
active
057654158
ABSTRACT:
An anti-theft device has a first elongated element formed to be arranged on top of a steering wheel and having a first forked end formed to receive one portion of a steering wheel rim between an upper prong and a lower prong of the first end, the first elongated element also having a second end, a second elongated element having a first end which is distal from the first elongated element and provided with a lock, the second elongated element also having a second forked end arranged to at least partially surround a diametrical opposite part of the steering wheel rim and also to surround a steering wheel spoke at both circumferential ends, and snapping structure formed in the second ends of the first and second elongated elements, the second elongated element being turnable relative to the first elongated element between a locking position in which the first and second elongated elements are in alignment with one another and the locking structure of the second ends snappingly lock one another and the device can not be removed from the steering wheel, and an unlocking position in which the second elongated element is turned at an angle relative to the first elongated element and the second end of the second elongated element is withdrawn from the diametrically opposite part of the steering wheel rim so that the device can be removed from the steering wheel.
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Gall Lloyd A.
Zborovsky Ilya
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