L.P. tank locking cover
OwnerPeter C. Callegari, Joseph A. Gobosinventors
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Abstract
A cover includes a base plate having a radial slot directed into the base plate medially thereof to receive a handle stem of a handle of a conventional L.P. tank valve assembly. The base plate includes a cover cap hingedly mounted to the base plate diametrically aligned relative to the slot, with the base plate and cover cap including cooperating flanges and cooperating apertures within the flanges to receive a lock member simultaneously through the flanges to secure the cover cap in an overlying contiguous communication to the base plate to prevent access to the valve handle preventing unauthorized rotation of the valve handle.
Claims4
A tank locking cover, comprising,
- a planar base plate, the planar base plate including a peripheral side wall, and a slot extending from the peripheral side wall to an orientation medially of the base plate, and
- a cover cap, the cover cap including a cover cap side wall defined by a predetermined first height, and
- a hinge mounted to the cover cap side wall and the peripheral side wall diametrically aligned with the slot, and
- lock means mounted to the peripheral side wall and the cover cap for securement of the cover cap relative to the base plate, and
- the cover cap includes a cover cap top wall, and a base plate lock flange fixedly and orthogonally mounted to the peripheral side wall having a predetermined second height greater than the first height, and integrally mounted to the peripheral side wall, and the base plate lock flange includes a base plate lock flange aperture, and the cover cap top wall includes a cover cap flange fixedly and integrally mounted to the cover cap top wall, wherein the cover cap flange includes a cover cap flange aperture, and the cover cap flange and the base plate lock flange are in contiguous communication relative to one another when the cover cap is in contiguous communication with the base plate in a first position, and the cover cap flange is displaced relative to the base plate lock flange in a second position when the cover cap is pivoted relative to the base plate in a spaced relationship, and the cover cap flange aperture and the base plate lock flange aperture are coaxially aligned in the first position, and a lock member, the lock member directed through the cover cap flange aperture and the base plate lock flange aperture in the first position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.