Land vehicles – Wheeled – Attachment
Reexamination Certificate
1998-11-12
2001-01-23
Dickson, Paul N. (Department: 3618)
Land vehicles
Wheeled
Attachment
C180S287000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06176519
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The invention is related to stopping vehicles by force.
The police often find themselves in situations where a fleeing vehicle must be stopped by force by a chasing vehicle. One known method is to try to shoot the tires of the fleeing vehicle in order to reduce the control of the vehicle and its ability to flee. Another known method is to force the fleeing vehicle to stop by driving the chasing vehicle to the side or in front of it or, in suitable road conditions, to push the fleeing vehicle from the back corner so that its driver looses control of the vehicle and the vehicle goes off the road. When any of these means are used, the chasing vehicle must go beside or past the fleeing vehicle, and both the chasing and the fleeing party commit themselves to serious danger. The fleeing vehicle as well as the chasing vehicle also often suffer serious damage.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The purpose of the invention is to provide an entirely new method and the equipment for stopping vehicles by force, which can be used to avoid the above-mentioned disadvantages and risks to a large extent.
Stopping by force by using the method and the equipment according to the invention is carried out so that the gripping means of the stopping equipment attached to the front end of the chasing vehicle are driven into the rear sheet metal structure of the vehicle to be stopped so that a fixed contact is provided between the cars. In one preferred embodiment, the gripping means contain a tip which penetrates the sheet metal structure. After this, depending on the speed and the conditions, the chasing car is slowed down so that the fleeing vehicle stops. When this method is used, it is not necessary to pass the fleeing vehicle, which is dangerous because of the cutting in and the oncoming traffic. Neither is it necessary to shoot at the vehicle, which is always dangerous for both parties as well as bystanders. Furthermore, burst tires do not always stop the vehicle. Neither is it necessary to stop the fleeing vehicle by placing obstacles on the road.
The forced stopping equipment can be used by one car and its driver. It is ready installed in the front of the car and it can be activated from its rest position from the driver's compartment of the car when the car is moving. The equipment can be implemented so that gas can be injected into the fleeing vehicle. If, for some reason, the contact between the vehicles must be undone, part of the equipment remains in the fleeing vehicle and in one possible embodiment, tracer gas begins to release from it to facilitate following.
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Dickson Paul N.
Merchant & Gould P.C.
Yeagley Daniel
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