Locks – Portable – Fetters
Patent
1987-09-10
1989-03-21
Wolfe, Robert L.
Locks
Portable
Fetters
70 58, E05B 7300
Patent
active
048132527
ABSTRACT:
A locking device for firearms that allows the firearms to be openly displayed, yet safe from the hands of inquisitive children. The device is formed from an elongated rod member that has been formed into an open loop configuration whose free ends are directed toward each other and have a predetermined open space between their tips. The rod member is inserted into the eyelet portion of an eyebolt that has been threaded into a corner stud of a room. Two portions of the open loop configuration of the rod member are oriented at 90 degree angles to each other and these aligned horizontally and in mating relationship to the respective corner walls to which the eyebolt has been secured. Either of the free ends of the rod member is threaded through the trigger guard of a rifle or revolver to secure the firearm to the locking device. A variety of quick release latching structures are avaliable for closing the open space of the open loop configuration and each of these have at least one sliding tubular sleeve that has aligned laterally oriented apertures therein, through which the U-shaped bar of a padlock may be inserted and which therefore prevents removal of the firearms from the locking device. The rod member is made of case hardened steel as would be the U-shaped bar of the padlock. When at least one rifle has been secured by the locking device, it is impossible for the eyebolt to be unthreaded and it would take a tremendous amount of pulling force to separate the eyebolt from the stud located in the corner of the room.
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patent: 3838585 (1974-10-01), Foote
patent: 3908414 (1975-09-01), Thorne
Logan II Charles C.
Wolfe Robert L.
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