Motor vehicles – With means for promoting safety of vehicle – its occupant or... – By preventing unauthorized or unintended access or use
Patent
1992-03-05
1994-05-24
Focarino, Margaret A.
Motor vehicles
With means for promoting safety of vehicle, its occupant or...
By preventing unauthorized or unintended access or use
70237, B60R 2500
Patent
active
053140400
ABSTRACT:
A passive anti-theft device (10) for use with a land-borne vehicle (14) which alerts the observing public that vehicle (14) has been stolen. The device consists of a broad, flat, brightly colored, message lettered strap (16) that normally stows between the trailing edge of the cowl (32) and the lower edge of the outer surface of the automobile windshield (12). When the vehicle (14) is left unattended, the strap (16) articulates pivotally from the windshield (12) lower edge to rotate upward at a removed end. The strap (16) is lockingly secured (28) to the windshield (12) along a diagonal. Thus, a thief must either remove the strap (16)--which would require breaking the windshield--or drive the car with the strap (16) in plain sight, its lettered message (30) alerting the public of the unauthorized use of the auto (14).
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Dickson Paul
Focarino Margaret A.
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