Motor vehicles – With means for promoting safety of vehicle – its occupant or... – By preventing unauthorized or unintended access or use
Patent
1994-08-03
1995-04-25
Focarino, Margaret A.
Motor vehicles
With means for promoting safety of vehicle, its occupant or...
By preventing unauthorized or unintended access or use
70209, 70226, 70238, B60R 2502
Patent
active
054090776
ABSTRACT:
A vehicular steering wheel anti-theft apparatus comprising a steering wheel having a handle, a hub adapted to be coupled to a steering column of a vehicle, a pair of spokes symmetrically disposed about the hub and aligned about a common central axis with each spoke coupled between the hub and handle, a bore formed through the spokes and hub with the bore having a sealed end and an open end extended through the handle; a spring mechanism disposed within the bore; and a plunging rod having a head end slidably disposed within the bore abutted against the spring mechanism and a tip end extended from the bore, the plunging rod having an extended orientation for enabling the tip end to be abutted against a portion of a vehicle and thereby prevent the steering wheel from being rotated and a retracted orientation for precluding such abutment and thereby allow the steering wheel to be rotated.
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Dickson Paul N.
Focarino Margaret A.
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