US1004154A - Lock for automobile-hoods. - Google Patents

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D. F. EBBBRT.

LOOK FOR AUTOMOBILE HOODS APPLICATION FILED APLG, 1911.

1,004,154. Patented epm, 1911.

I I J I 5 1 UNITED s'rA'r ns PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL F. EBBER'I, OF WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA.

LOCK FOR AUTOMOBILE-HD0108.

1,004,154. Specification of Letters Patent Patented Sept. 26, 1911. Application filed April 6, 1911. Serial No: 619,310.

cured the usual or any suitable form of handle 4 whereby said side members are readily swung upwardly and downwardly to open and closed position.

In tirder to lock the side members of the hood down in a closed position I provide a suitable locking mechanism comprising a pivoted arm 5 the lower end of which is bifurcated or provided with parallel aper- 5 tured bearing lugs 6, while the opposite en of the same is threaded. Secured to the side rails of the frame 1 of the machine below the handle 4 of the hood is an arm attaching plate 7 said plate being fastened 70 to the frame or rails by screws or similar devices 8. Formed on or rigidly secured to the plate 7 is a central upwardly projecting apertured pivot lug 9 with which is engage the apertured lug 6 ot the lower end of the 75 arm 5. The apertured lugs 6 are pivotally connected to the lug 9 by a pivot screw 10 which is inserted through the apertures in the lugs from the inner side of the arm or adjacent to the side of the hood whereby 80 when the hood isclosed the head of the screw will be covered and protected against removal.

In order to prevent the removal ofthe screws 8 of the attaching plates 7, I pro- 85 vide a flat spring metal covering plate 11 having therein a centrally disposed slot 12 through which the lug 9 projects when the plate 11 is arranged 1n position on the attaching plate as shown in Figs. 3 and 4 of .90 the drawings. The springplate 11 when thus arranged bows or is curved upwardly and engages the lower edges of the lug 6 on the arm and thereby holds these parts against rattling. 95

Arranged on the threaded 11 per end of the arm 5 is a lock 13 said lock eing provided on one side with an offset lug or nut 14 having a threaded engagement with the upper end of the arm whereby the lock may be ad- 100 justed in position to engage the bail thereof with the handle 4 of the hood thereby securely locking the latter in closed position. Any form of combination or key operated lock or one which cannot be unlocked by un- 105 authorized persons is employed in connection with the arm 5 for locking the hood in the manner described. By hingedly connecting the arm to the frame of the machine in -the manner described, said arm may be 110 swung downwardly when unlocked from the handle thus permitting the opening and clos- To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Daniel. F. Eennar, a citizen of the United States, residing at Wheeling, in the county of ()hio and State 5 of West Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Looks for utomobile-Hoods; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will en- 10 able others skilled inthe art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

a This invention relates to improvements in looks for automobile hoods.

.One object of the invention is to provide 15 a lock of this character adapted to be applied to the frame of the vehicle and to be engaged with the handle of the hood where by the latter is locked in closedposition.

' A further object is to provide a locking 2o device of this character which may be adjusted to engage handle when arranged in various positions and constructed-in different styles.

With these and other objects in view, the

invention consists of certain novel features of construction, combination and arrange- "ment ofparts as will be more fully describedand particularly pointed out: in the ap ended claims.

n the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a side view of the front end of an automobile showing the application of the invention to the hood; Fig. 2 is a detail vertical sectional view through one side of the hood and the adjacent parts of the machine showing the lock arranged thereon; Fig. 3 is a central vertical sectional view through the attaching plate and lower end of the pivoted fastening arm; Fig. 4 is a horizon- 46 tal sectional view on the line 4,-4 of Fig. 3; Fig. 5 is an enlarged vertical cross section of a portion of the frame and hood and the lower end of the pivoted arm and its attaching mechanism; Fig. 6 is a detail perspective view of the lock and the nut arranged thereon for adjustably connecting the same to the pivoted arm.

Referring more particularly to the drawings 1-denotes the front end of an automo- 50 bile supporting frame, and 2 denotes the hood which covers the motor. The hood 2 ,is here shown as having the usual form of hingedly connected side plates 3 which swing downwardly into engagement with the frame 1 when in a closed position. .lo the lower member of the side plates 3 is seposition. By thus ing of the hood without danger of striking I each of the bearing lugs 3 of the arm 5 is I cut ofi' to form fiat surfaces. 6 which when the arm is swung down to an inoperative position as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1 will engage the spring plate 11, said plate thus firmly holding the arm down in inoperative locking the hood over the engine, the latter, the wiring mechanism or other parts in closed by the hood will be securely protected from being tampered with or molestech by an unauthorized person thus obviating the inconvenience and annoyance which fre quently occurs by the interference, mali ciously or otherwise with the working parts of an automobile inclosed in the hood when the machine is left-unprotected.

From the foregoing description taken in connection With Ithe accompanying drawings, the construction and operation of the invention will be readily understood without requiring a more extended explanation. Various changes in the form, proportion and the minor .details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of the-invention as defined in the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

1. A look for automobile hoods comprising an arm having on its lower end parallel apertured attaching lugs, an attaching plate adapted to be secured to the frame of the machine, a pivot lug arranged on said plate and adapted to receive the apertured lugs on said arm, a pivot screw arranged through said lugs whereby the arm is pivotally con 5 I fiat surfaces of its connecting lugs Wlll ennected to said plate, means to prevent theremoval of the attacl'iing plate, and'arm taspivot lug, said screw having its head disthe carbureter or any of vented when the hood is l i l toning screws, a lock adapted to be engaged j with the handle of the hood and a threaded nut secured to said lock and adapted to be screwed onto said arm whereby the lock is adjustalny connected to the arm to engage said handle and the hood thereby locked in a. closed position.

2. A lock for autonmbilc hoods comprisr v I I posed adjacent to the side of the hood whereby access to the screw head is preclosed,'a spring guard plate arranged on said attaching plate and over the attaching devices therein whereby the latter are protected from removal said spring guard plate having .a yielding engagement with the bifurcated lower end of the bolt whereby the same is prevented from rattling, a lock adapted to be engaged with the handle of the hood and a nut secured to said lock and adapted to be screwed onto the threaded outer end of the arm whereby said lock is adjustably con-' nected to the latter in position to be engaged with the handle of the hood.

3. A lock for automobile hoods comprising a pivoted arm threaded on one end and having on its opposite end apertured at taching lugs, said lugs having on one edge flattened surfaces, an attaching plate secured to the frame of the machine, a pivot lug formed on said plate and adapted to receive the aperturedlugs on said arm, and means to pivotally connect the lugs of the arm with the lug on said attaching plate, a spring guard plate arranged over said attaching plate, said guard plate having a yielding engagement with the pivot lugs on 90 the lower end of said arm whereby the latter is held against rattling when in an operative position and whereby when said arm is swung down to an inoperative position the gage said spring guard plate and thushold and lock the arm in an inoperative position.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribingwitnesses.

DANIEL F. EBBERT.

Witnesses 1-]. A. Smmuon'r, Lrs'rrzn Cowan.

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