US1276116A - Automobile-lock. - Google Patents

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T. C. RIEBEvl AUTOMOBILE LOCK.

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THEODORE C. RIEBE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO ROGERS MOTOR LOCK l COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

' AUTOMOBILE-LOCK.

Application led .Tune 13, 1917. Serial No. 174,466.

To all whom z't may concern:

Be it known that I, THrzoDoRE C. RIEBE, a citizen of the United States, and .resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Automobile-Locks, of which the following is a speciiication.

My invention relates to locking devices for automobiles and particularly to an improvement on the lock shown in the patent to William l. Conley, No. 1,181,571, dated May 2, 1916, Patent No. 1,238,945 to Rogers & Riebe dated Sept. 4, 1917, and co-pending application Ser. No. 174,468, filed of even date herewith.

An obj ect in the present construction is to provide a lock which shall be 'impregnable to attack and the operation of which is not affected by the rotation of the flexible con' nection between the lock and the valve. To secure the desired result it has been found desirable to operate the valve by a member which is pushed and pulled as distinguished' from a rotatable member. In the present instance I employ a stiii' wire located at the axis of a novel armored conductor, the valve bein operated by a longitudinal thrust applie to the wire. To accomplish this result the rotary movement of the lockingv element must be changed to a reciprocating movement and certain novel means are employed for accomplishing this result. Fundamentally, however, the invention contemplates the employment in connection with a rotary lock of a longitudinally, slidable valve operating member, the operating member being in the form of a wire and being closely conined at the axis of a flexible conductor. This conductor is composed of a plurality of independent ball and socket elements.

The invention will be more readily understood by reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein,

Figure 1 is a face view of a lock constructed in accordance with my invention;

Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof;

Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the line 3--3 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is a sectional view on the lin-e 4-4 of Fig. 3;

' Fig. 5 is a sectional view on the line 55 ofFig. 3, and,

Fig. 6 is a sectional view on the-line 6-6 of Fig. 3.

In the drawings it 4will be seen that the locking device is inclosed within a casing 10, the casing being suitably held in an opening in the dash 11, of an automobile. A screw-cap 12, is fitted to the open end of the casing and serves to confine the operating parts therein when the lock is inunlocked position. and the valve (not shown) is by means of a stiff wire 13, which is inclosed within an armored cable. The cable is composed of sections, each section comprising a ball 14, and a socket 15. A longitudinal axial opening through the element is provided for the wire. Suliicient clearance is provided between adjacent sections to permit of the necessary flexibility of the conductor, this being accomplished without binding the inclosed wire.

The ball 14, of the extreme section is accommodated within the socket end of a cylinder 16, welded within the opening in the end wall of the casing 10. The end of the wire is formed into a hook 17, which engages a plug 18, accommodated within the hollow end of a bolt 19. `After the plug 18, is in? serted, a washer 20, having an axial opening 21 considerably larger than the wire is 4inserted and the end of the bolt crimped thereover. By this means a swivel connection is made between the wire and the nonrotatable bolt. Inasmuch as the sections of Patented Auw. 2o, 191s.

The connection between the lock the conductor permit swiveling and the wire is rotatably connected to the lock, it will be The bolt 19, is threaded into a U-shaped member 22, and further secured byl a nut 23. The legs of the U-shaped member or yoke 22, en age with pins 24, 25, which project from t e sides of the gears 26, 27, these gears being mounted on pivots fixed to an inner frame member 28. The apertures 29, in the legs of the member 22, for engagement with the pins 24, 25, are in the form of slots, as best shown in Fig. 4. The gears 26, 27 engage with a gear 30, which is secured to the barrel 31, of a lock by screws 32, and pins 33, as best shown in Fig. 5. The teeth of the gear 30, are formed by punching apertures 34, near the periphery of the disk composing the gear, two diametrically opposite teeth, however, being formed by the notches 35, as best shown in Fig. 6. These notches engage with lugs 36, integral with the member 28, when the parts are in unlocked position.

At other times the lugs 36, lie in front of the gear, as best shoivn in F ig. 6. This prevents separation of the lock from its coperating parts except When in unlocked position. When the Wire is disconnected at its lower end and the fastening ring l2, is removed from the casing, if the lock is moved to unlocked position, the entire lock may be moved out ot' the casing. This makes the operation of assembling comparatively simple.

One of the important features is the method employed for securing a reciprocatory motion in right lines Wit-hout the possibility of binding. The gear attached to the lock barrel engages the peripheries of the right angularly disposed gears 2G, 2?, rotating the same in opposite directions. The slots 29, in the yoke permit the pins which engage therewith to move in opposite 'directions Without interfering with the right line movement of the yoke. This gives rise to another advantage. It Will be seen that when the yoke is in either of its extreme posit-ions, a thrust exerted on Athe Wire, as when attempting to cutthe cable, Will be exerted in line with the axis of the gears and will be ineffective toward rotating the gears. This is essential in connection With a further locking provision which forms the subject matter of a co-pending application, it being essential in connection with that' feature that the Wire shall not be subject to elongation.

bviously the construction is capable of much modification and the desired result may be secured by the use of other 1nechanisms than here disclosed. I do not Wish to be limited other than as indicated in the appended claims.

I claim:

l. In a lockingdevice, the combination of a casing,`a conduit connected thereto, a Wire in said conduit, a rotatable locking element, a pair of gears located in a plane transverse to the arc of rotation of the locking element, and means operable by the gears for reciprocating said Wire, substantially as described.

2. In an automobile lock, the combination of a casing, a conduit connected thereto, a Wire in said conduit, a gear operated by said lock, a pair of gears meshing with said first mentioned gear and mounted on pivots transverse to the pivot of said first gear, and means operable by said pair of gears for reciprocating said Wire, substantially as described.

8. In a locking device for automobiles, the combination of a frame, a rotatable lock reveal@ mounted in the open end of said frame, a gear secured to the inner end of said lock, the

teeth of said gear being in the form of apertures located near the periphery of the gear, one of the apertures being in the form of a notch in the periphery, and a lock on the frame, said lock being so positioned as to register with said notch only when the lock is in unlocked position, substantially as described.

la In combination, a casing, a conduit con` nec-ted thereto, a Wire in said conduit, a frame in the casing, a lock interlocked with said frame, a toothed disk secured to the lock, a pair of gears secured tothe frame and meshing with the teeth of said disk, and

.means for connecting the Wire to said gears whereby the rotary motion of the lock is changed to reciprocating motion of the Wire, substantially as described.

5. In a locking device, the combination of acasing, a conduit connected thereto, a Wire in said conduit, a lock in the casing, means operable by the lock for causing a reciprocating motion of said Wire, and a swivel connection between the lock and said Wire for permitting rotation of the Wire on its longitudinal axis, substantially `as described.

6. In a locking device, the combination of a casing, a lock therein, a valve-operating Wire, and means operable by said lock for changing the rotary motion of the lock into a reciprocating motion of the Wire in line with the longitudinal aXis of the lock, substantially as described.

7. In a device of the class described, the combination of a lock having a barrel, a valve-operating Wire, and means operable by the rotation of the lock barrel for changing the rotary movement of the barrel into longitudinal movement of the Wire in line With the longitudinal axis of the barrel, substantially as described.

8. In a device of the class described, the combination of a lock barrel, a stiE Wire adapted to be operated thereby, means for changing the rotary movement of the barrel into positive, longitudinal, reciprocating movement of the Wire in line With the longitudinal aXisof the barrel, and means in the connection betweenv the Wire and the lock' permitting rotation of the wire on its longitudinal aXis, substantially as described.

Signed at Chicago, Ill., this 9th day of June, 1917.

THEODORE C. RIEBE. Witness:

T, D. BUTLER.

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