Locks – Special application – For automotive vehicles
Patent
1993-04-01
1994-11-08
Cuomo, Peter M.
Locks
Special application
For automotive vehicles
70202, 70238, B60R 2506, E05B 6512
Patent
active
053616138
ABSTRACT:
A vehicle anti-theft device including a gear shifter locking device for enclosing the handle of a vehicle gear shifter therein to prevent the usual shifting of the gear shifter, and a steering wheel locking device to prevent or limit the usual turning of the vehicle steering wheel. The gear shifter locking device includes two mating housing parts for enclosing the gear shifter handle therein, and a bar connecting the housing parts together, one bar end portion being slideably secured to one housing part, and the other housing part being rotatably secured to the opposite bar end portion. A locking mechanism coacts with the bar to lock the housing parts together. A coil spring is tensioned against the bar so that the two housing parts automatically separate apart from each other when unlocked by a key-operated lock mounted on one housing part. The housing parts can be provided with downwardly extending skirt portions to enclose the handle-carrying rod portion of the gear shifter. The steering wheel locking device includes two bars which are locked together by a locking pin of a key-operated lock which is engageable in one of a series of grooves provided in one bar. One bar has a hook portion for hooking onto the steering wheel, and the other bar is connected to one housing part of the gear shifter locking device. Both locking devices are installed in a locked position without employment of the lock key, where the lock key is used to unlock the locking devices.
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Fort Raymond S.
Paul Joseph L.
Cuomo Peter M.
Dino Suzanne L.
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