Protecting device for lever handle door locks

In a protection device of the type having first and second protector halves hingedly associated with each other, said first and said second halves joining together along a substantially planar junction, said halves when associated together along said planar junction substantially forming a hollow united body, said united body having a closed bottom wall and a substantially cylindrical circumferential wall, said body having a top wall, locking means adapted to releasably secure said first and said second halves together maintaining said first and said second halves as a united body, said locking means including first and second lugs respectively secured to said first and said second halves on said circumferential wall the improvement consisting of:

• said top wall including an opening opening into the hollow interior of said united body, said opening formed in said first and said second halves such that a portion of said opening is located in one of said first or said second halves and the remaining portion of said opening is located in the other of said first or said second halves and together said portions form a singular opening in said top wall when said halves are associated together along said planar junction to form said united body;
• said opening sized and shaped to receive an outwardly extending shank of a lever handle door lock, said shank portion including a cylindrical lock located therein;
• said circumferential wall including an elongated rectangular opening into the hollow interior of said body, the elongated dimension of said rectangular opening located essentially parallel to said top wall;
• said rectangular opening sized and shaped so as to accept the lever portion of a lever handle door lock;
• said protection device fitting over said lever handle door lock by passing said handle portion of said lever handle door lock through said rectangular hole and positioning said opening in said top wall of said protection device around the shank of said lever handle door lock whereby when said halves of said protection device are associated together to form a united body the shank portion of said lever handle door lock including said cylinder lock located therein are located within the interior of said body with a portion of said lever section of said lever handle door lock extending from the interior of said body through said rectangular opening to the exterior of said body.