Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Accessories
Patent
1979-06-14
1981-03-03
Moore, Richard E.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Accessories
70 77, 70159, 70237, 292 1, 292203, E05B 6500, E05B 6512, E05B 6540, E05C 2100
Patent
active
042536987
ABSTRACT:
For automotive use, an inexpensive gasoline tank theft guard adjustably attached so that owner may integrate the guard or not by choice of a quick manual setting. The guard utilizes a gasoline fill-tube cover, a lockable body-entry panel, and the owner's key and perhaps his license plate for intercepting access to the gasoline tank when cover and panel are proximate and closed, and for protection against gasoline theft when entry panel is locked. By way of example, a pin (10, FIGS. 3-6), pivotally anchored inside gasoline fill-tube cover (6) engages a receptacle (9) in the trunk lid (2) when the lid closes (FIG. 5). Owner's key (1) unlocks lid to free pin. Anchor heads (4, FIG. 3) are concealed behind mounted license plate (7, FIG. 4) and are designed to frustrate tampering. Stability and rattle of the adjustable pin are controlled manually (FIG. 7) and automatically (FIG. 8). Pin (10) pivots manually aside to disconnect the system.
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Page 225 from Popular Science, Apr. 1956, (Magazine), Popular Science Publishing Co., Inc., 355 Lexington Ave., NY, NY, 10017.
Page 144 from Popular Science, Jul. 1947, (Magazine).
Moore Richard E.
Pietruszka Carl F.
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