US1211064A - Locking device for automobiles. - Google Patents

Description

M. W. BOYCE.

LOCKING DEVICE FOR AUTOMOBILES.

APPLICATION FILED DEC-1.1915.

Patented J an. 2, 1917.

%I%TOR t UNITED srinru MILrAnn w. severe;

or KEARNEY, NEW annsnr.

LOCKINi' DEVICE FOR AUTQMOBILES.

Specification oil-otters Patent.

Patented Jan. 2, 191'?.

Application filed December 1 1915. Serial No. 6 1,442.

'To all whom z'zfmay concern Be it known that 1, Minnie!) W. Boron,

a subject of the King of England, residin in the town of Kearney, in the county or Hudson and State of New Jersey, have mvented certain new and useful Improvements in Locking Devices for l-lutomobiles, of-

which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make, construct, and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings; and to numerals oi refereiics marked thereon, forming a part of this specification.

My invention relates to a locking device, especially designed for locking the controlling lever of any style of automobile from motion, so asto prevent the automobile from being operated 'by an unauthorized person, as Well as to,prevent the theft of the machine.

The object of this invention is the production of a locking device which shall be simple in construction, durable in use, comparatively inexpensive in cost, consisting preferably of a base plate adapted to be secured to the floor of a car adjacent tothe lever, and

-mounting upon said base plate a standard which can be adjusted toward or away from said lever, said standard supporting a pivoted locking arm, which is provided with means for interlocking engagement with said lever.

With this end in. view, my invention consists in certain novelties of construction and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter set forth and pointed out in the claims.

While thepreferred form of my invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, yet it is to be understood that minor detail changes may be made without departing from the scope there-oi.

In the accompanying'drawings, Figure 1 represents a side elevation, showing the application of the invention for holding a con-.

trol lever locked against movement. Fig. 2 represents a plan view thereof. Fig. 3 represents an enlarged, fragmentary side elevation of the free end of the locking arm, just before the recess in the locking arm engages with the stud on the hack oi"? the operating lever, and before the latch belt of the lock on the locking arm engages with the latch bolt receiving element on the operating lever. Fig. 4 represents a similar view, show-- ing the parts in locked position; and Fig. 5

represents; an end view, partly in section, taken on lines w ae of Fig. 2, and looking in the direction indicated by the arrow.

Similar numerals oii reference refer to like which the standard 3 is adjustably secured to said base plate. The base plate may be secured to the bottom of the car in any convenient or desired manner. The upper end of the standard 8 is slotted and provided with alined apertures, by means of which one end of the locking arm 4 is pivotally secured thereto by means of the headed stud o, The lower end of the standard 3 is pr0- vided with a suitable base 14, said base bemg provided with suitable apertures to re- '-ceive the threaded portions of the bolts 2,

and by means of which and suitable nuts, the standard may be adjustably secured to thebase plate 1. 4 is. provided with a recess 6, designed to have holding engagement with a stud 7 secured to one side of the operating lever 8 in any convenient and desired manner, and by means of 'whi'ch the arm. 4 has holding engagement (with the operating lever 8. Secured to o-h side of the arm 4 at its free end,

-is. adock case '3, preferably of the pin-cylinder type, and secured to the operating lever 8 is a latch bolt receiving element 10, adapted to receive the latch bolt 11 of said lock, and by means of which the arm 4: is posi tively locked to the operating lever 8, as clearly indicated in the different views of the drawings.

Although I have shown in the drawings thelatch bolt receiving element 10 secured to the face of the operating lever 8, it is to be understood that for convenience sake, the same may be secured to the opposite side of the lever to which the stud 7 is secured.

By means'of the slots formed in the base plate 1, the standard may be adjusted so as to dispose the same at diii'erent distances from the operating lever 8 for effective ongagement of the holding and locking means, if for obvious reasons the distance from the end of the standard 3 and the operating lever 8 should vary. When the device is not in use, the locking arm 4 may be swung u. ward into engagement with asmhb e The free end of the arm spring-clasping member '12 secured to the .car at any convenient point and with which it has frictional engagement, as clearly indi rated in the dotted lines in Fig. 1 of the drawiPgS.

In the operation oi this mechanism, the operating lever 8 isilocked by swii'iging the arm 4. from the position shown in dotted lines into the position shown in full lines in Fig. l of the drawings, which operation simultaneously causes the recess 6 of the locking, arm to engage with the stud 7 on the lever 8, and permits the latch bolt 11 of the lock 9 to autoi'natically enter into looking engagement with the latch bolt receiving element 10. When it is desired to use the machine which is locked b this meo ha nism, the operator by means of a key not shown), releases the latch bolt 11 from locking engagement with the latch bolt receiving element 10, and the arm -lis then free to be swung upward into engagement with said spr'ngelasping member 1.2, which maintains said arm 4 out of operating position until again needed.

It will be understood that the construction and arrangement and combination of the parts above shown, are given only to illustrate the practical embodiment of my in vention; and experience has demonstrated that the same is a highly cilieient device, but it, is obvious that minor Variations thereof, not involving the exercise of inrei'ition, may be made by any skilled meehai'iic, and such departures from what is herein described and claimed, not involving invention, I consider within the scope and terms of my claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I desire to claim is:

1. In a device for securing an operating lever, a base plate provided with slots secured to the floor of a car, a standard designed to be adjust-ably secured in said base plate by means of said slots toward and away from the operating lever, an arm pivotally secured to said standard, the free outer end of said arm being provided with a recess, stud secured on said operating lever adapted to be engaged by the recess in said movable arm, piiroylinder means secured on said movable arm, a keeper on said operating lever in close proximity to said stud, said pin-ovlinder means adapted to engage with said keeper, whereby when said means are in. locking engagement with said keeper, said stud and recess are in further engagement, for looking and holding said operating lever in its normal position.

In a device for securing an operating lever, an adjustable standard, an arm pivoted to said standard adapted to he engaged by and disengaged from the operating lever, the free outer end of said arm being provided with receiving means, holding means secured on said operating lever designed to engage with the said receiving means on said movable arm, pin cylinder means also secured on the free outer end of said movable arm, a keeper on said operating lever in close proximity to the means on said operating lever, said pin-cylinder means adapted to engage with said keeper, whereby when said means are in looking engagement with said keeper, the firstanentioned means on both the movable arm and operating lever are also in enga' enient, for hacking and holding said oyez" ting lever in its not mal position. i V

This specification signed and. witnessed this 29th day of November, 1915.

MILFARD \V. BOYCE.

Witnesses:

Fnnnit. U. Fisonnn, Cmrronn A. Anmsroisi

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