Vehicle fuel theft prevention assembly
AssigneeLes Aciers Robond Inc.
InventorMichel Beaudoin
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Abstract
A theft prevention assembly for use on an externally threaded outer end of a fuel tank filling neck includes an outer cap, an internally threaded inner cap for mounting on the filling neck, and a lock assembly defined by a cup attached to the inner cap, a sleeve slidably in the cup and a lock in the sleeve. The outer cap is normally freely rotatable relative to the fixed inner cap, the cup and the sleeve which are releasably interconnected by the lock. When the cup is released from the sleeve, the inner cap is latched to the outer cap by the sleeve, and the two caps can be rotated as a unit to open the filling neck.
Claims6
A fuel theft prevention assembly for use on an externally threaded vehicle filling neck comprising:
- an internally threaded inner cap for mounting on the vehicle filling neck;
- an outer cap covering and freely rotatable on said inner cap;
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- a lock assembly including a cup connected to and extending downwardly from said inner cap;
- and a lock slidable in said cap accessible through a top end of said outer cap for movement between a locked position in which the inner cap and cup are locked together and the outer cap is freely rotatable relative to the inner cap, and a release position in which the outer and inner caps and the cup are locked together, whereby rotation of said outer cap results in corresponding rotation of said inner cap and said cup, permitting removal and re-attachment of the theft prevention assembly to the filling neck.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.