Locking devices for electric meter boxes

A lock device capable of lockingly interconnecting a lid and a body of an electric meter box, said lock device comprising

• a metal bracket having an elongated central portion with one end bent so as to form a U-shape with the adjacent part of the elongated central portion, and a second end which extends away from a plane defined by said elongated central portion and in a direction opposite to the bent direction of said one end;
• means for retaining the U-shaped section of said metal bracket on an edge of the body of the electric meter box;
• a metal clamp having an elongated central portion positioned adjacent to said elongated central portion of said metal bracket with a first limb bent away from a plane defined by the elongated central portion of the same side thereof as the bend of said one end of said metal bracket, and a second limb which extends away from the plane defined by the central portion and in a direction opposite to the bent direction of said first limb, said first limb being capable of retaining an edge of the lid of the electric meter box between itself and said metal bracket;
• means for rigidly interconnecting said second limb of said metal clamp to said second end of said metal bracket;
• a housing means for enclosing said second limb, said second end and said means for rigidly interconnecting said second limb and said second end;
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• means for locking said housing means to said second limb and said second end.