Disc brake locks
AssigneeXena IP Holdings Limited
InventorIvan Foti
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Abstract
A disc brake lock used principally with motorcycles has a body (10) with a U-shaped slot (13) to receive an edge of the disc. A locking pin can be moved to extend through a hole in the disc to fix the lock to the disc. A limb (11) of the U-shaped body (10) that is on the outside when the lock is clamped to the disc contains an alarm system (14) housed in a chamber (28) that cannot be accessed through that limb. The other limb (12), which is between the disc and the wheel, contains a removable cover (34) that, for extra security, can only be opened when the locking pin (16) is retracted. The alarm system (14) is inserted into the chamber (28) through the other limb (12).
Claims13
A disc brake lock comprising:
- a U-shaped body in the form of a single piece of material that includes first and second limbs cooperatively defining a slot configured to receive an edge of a brake disc;
- the first limb including a first chamber containing an alarm system and the second limb including a second chamber leading to the first chamber and including an aperture closed by a removable cover through which the alarm system is inserted through the second chamber into the first chamber in the first limb;
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- a locking pin provided in the first limb, and the second limb including a hole configured and arranged to receive the locking pin, the locking pin being movable between a locked position in which the locking pin extends across the slot defined by the first and second limbs through a hole in a brake disc positioned in the slot defined by the first and second limbs and engages the hole in the second limb, and an inoperative position in which the locking pin is retracted from the hole in the second limb and in which the lock is releasable from the brake disc.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.