Car lock multiple locking purposes
OwnerMao-Lin Hehinventor
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Abstract
A car lock includes an upper hook member protruding upwardly from a main box to be lockable on a steering wheel of the car, a bifurcate stopping member downwardly extendible from the main box for locking a brake pedal both for preventing slipping on a sloping road surface and for preventing theft of the car, a lower hook member downwardly extendible from the main box to be juxtapositional to the bifurcate stopping member for locking an accelerator pedal, and a positioning lock mounted on the main box operatively lockable for firmly positioning the plural members at their locking positions, thereby simultaneously locking the steering wheel, accelerator pedal, and the brake pedal for both security and safety purposes.
Claims4
A car lock comprising:
- a main box having a positioning lock secured on the main box;
- a steering-wheel locking means protruding upwardly from the main box for operatively locking a steering wheel of a car;
- a brake locking means movably disposed on a first side portion of said main box for downwardly depressibly locking a brake pedal of the car;
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- an accelerator locking means movably disposed on a second side portion of said main box opposite to said brake locking means for operatively locking an accelerator pedal;
- said positioning lock operatively locking said brake locking means and said accelerator locking means at their locking positions while said steering-wheel locking means lockable with said steering wheel;
- said main box including:
- a first rack hole formed in a first side portion of the box for movably holding a first rack of the brake locking means in the first rack hole as slidably limited by a first guiding plate secured in the first side portion of the box, a second rack hole formed in a second side portion of the box for movably holding a second rack of the accelerator locking means in the second rack hole as slidably limited by a second guiding plate secured in the second side portion of the box, a gear rotatably mounted in the box about a shaft secured in the box in between the first and second racks for simultaneously engaging the two racks diametrically disposed on two opposite sides of the gear having gear teeth circumferentially formed on a perimeter of the gear;
- said gear being operatively locked by said positioning lock;
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- said steering-wheel locking means including:
- a cylinder having female threads formed in a through hole in the cylinder longitudinally protruding upwardly from a side wall of the main box, a bolt having male threads formed on the bolt and engageable with the through hole in the cylinder having an upper bracket formed on an upper end portion of the bolt, and an upper hook member fixed on the upper bracket by an upper rivet for operatively locking a steering wheel of the car.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.