US 7,204,109 B1Granted

Universal portable gas pedal locking device for vehicles

OwnerAchille A. De Luciainventor

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Abstract

A portable, universal, anti-theft device having inner and outer tubular housings mounted together telescopically. Both housings have open front, axial ends and the rear end of the outer housing is closed. Opposite wall portions of inner and outer housings are formed with pairs of intersecting camming slots receiving locking pins. A locking handle on one housing can move the housings in opposite axial directions to cam the locking pins between an open, gas pedal inserting position, in which the locking pins are cammed apart, permitting the open front end of the housing assembly to be advanced, in enclosing relation, over the gas pedal by the gas pedal passing between and behind the pins and, a closed, gas pedal immobilizing and concealing position in which the pins are cammed together engaging in front of the gas pedal, immobilizing and concealing the gas pedal wholly within the housing assembly.

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Dependent claims

A portable, universal, anti-theft device comprising a first, inner, tubular housing part and a second, outer, tubular housing part mounted together in telescopic relation;

each tubular housing part having an open front axial end and upper and lower, opposite wall portions extending between front and rear axial ends thereof;
the upper and lower wall portions of one of said first and second housing parts being formed with vertically aligned pairs of rearwardly convergent cam slots;
and the upper and lower wall portions of another of said first and second housing parts being formed with vertically aligned pairs of forwardly convergent cam slots with each pair of slots having a first individual slot and a second individual slot so that first individual slots of both pairs on the one housing part cross first individual slots of both pairs on said another housing part and second individual slots of both pairs of the one housing part cross second individual slots of both pairs on said another housing part;
a first cam following locking pin and a second cam following locking pin passing through all said first individual slots where they cross and all of said second individual slots where they cross;
handle means on one of said first and second housing parts;
whereby relative axial movement of said first and second housing parts in opposite axial directions by the handle means cams the locking pins together and apart respectively, from an open, gas pedal inserting position, in which the locking pins are cammed apart, permitting the open front end of the housing assembly to be advanced, in enclosing relation, over the gas pedal by the gas pedal passing between and behind the pins and, a closed, gas pedal immobilizing and concealing position in which the pins are cammed together engaging in front of the gas pedal, immobilizing and concealing the gas pedal wholly within the housing assembly;
and,
means for locking the housing parts in the gas pedal immobilizing and concealing position.

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A portable, universal, anti-theft device comprising a first, inner, tubular housing part and a second, outer, tubular housing part mounted together in telescopic relation;

each tubular housing part having an open front, axial end and a pair of opposite wall portions extending between front and rear axial ends thereof;
each wall portion of the pair of opposite wall portions of one housing part being formed with a cam slot which extends axially rearwardly from a peripheral location of the wall portion of the one housing part towards a central location of the wall portion of the one housing part, the cam slots of the one housing part being aligned with each other;
each wall portion of the pair of opposite wall portions of said another housing part being formed with a cam slot which extends axially rearwardly from a central location of the wall portion of said another one housing part towards a peripheral location of the wall portion of said another housing part, the cam slots of said another housing part being aligned with each other so that the cam slots of the one housing part cross the cam slots of said another housing part;
a cam following locking pin passing through all said slots where they cross;
handle means on one of said housing parts;
whereby relative axial movement of said housing parts in opposite axial directions by the handle means cams the locking pin to a central location of said opposite wall portions and to a peripheral location of said opposite wall portions, respectively, from an open, gas pedal assembly inserting position in which the locking pin is at the peripheral location permitting the open front end of the housing assembly to be advanced, in enclosing relation, over the gas pedal with the gas pedal assembly passing the locking pin and, a closed, gas pedal assembly immobilizing and concealing position in which the locking pin is cammed toward the peripheral location and engages in front of the gas pedal assembly, immobilizing and concealing the gas pedal wholly within the housing assembly;
and,
means for locking the housing parts in the gas pedal assembly immobilizing and concealing position.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.