US1239292A - Safety-lock for switch plugs or keys of motor-vehicles. - Google Patents

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I R. L. MUNDELL. SAFETY LOOK FOR SWITCH PLUGS OR KEYS OF MOTOR VEHICLES.

APPLICATION man JAN-3,1917.

1,239,292. Patnted'Sept, 4, 19 1.

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SAFETY-LOCK FOR SWITCH lLUG-S OR KEYS 0F MOTOR-VEHICLES.

Specification of Letters Batent.

Patented Sept. 4, 1917.

Application filed January 6, 1917. Serial No. 140,998.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, ROBERT L. MUNDELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Albion, in the county of Marshall and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safety-Locks for Switch Plugs or Keys of Motor-Vehicles, particularly adapted, though not necessarily limited in its use, for locking the coil-box switch plug or key of a Ford machine of the invention is to provide an improved device of this character which may be readily applied and as readily removed and when not in use may be placed out ofthe way of the operator.

To the attainment of these ends and the accomplishment of other new and useful objects as will appear, the invention consists in the features of novelty in substantially the construction, combination and arrangement of the several parts, hereinafter more fully described and claimed and shown in the accompanying drawing illustrating the invention and in which,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of an im proved device of this character constructed in accordance with the principles of this invention and showing the same applied to a coil box of a motor vehicle.

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view as taken through the cover of the lock.

Fig. 3 is a top plan view of this improved device with the flexible anchors and securing means detached therefrom.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, the numeral 10 designates the usual coil box arranged upon the dashboard 11 of a motor vehicle and 12 designates the steering post. The safety device embodies a cover 13 which may be of any desired size and configuration, and constructed of any suitable material, but is preferably of a cupshaped formation which is adapted to be placed over the coil box switch plug or key 14, so as to incase the same.

This cover 13 is held in position by means of suitable arms 15, 16, 17 and 18, which are secured together preferably as at 19 and to which the cover is secured. The portion of the arms adjacent the cover 18, in the form shown are preferably deflected so as to form a seat for the cover 13, while the respective extremities 20, 21, 22 and 23 of the arms 15, 16, 17 and 18 are again deflected so they will engage the respective edges of the coil box 10, the body portionof the arms resting against the front face of the coil box, so that the arms will embrace the coil box and hold the cove-r18 in position.

The device thus constructed may be Socured in position, in any suitable manner, preferably by means of a flexible anchor 24, one end of which is" secured as at 25"to the extremity 22 of the arm 17, and the other extremity of the flexible anchor is secured to a fixed support,.preferably a portion of the machine by means of a fastening device 26, such as a bolt or the like.

Another flexible anchor 27 is secured to a fixed support, by one extremity, by suitable fastening means such as a bolt 28, and the free extremity of the portion 23 of the arm 18 is preferably provided with an aperture 29 adapted to receive a lock 30 which is also connected with the flexible anchor 27.

When the device is in the position as shown in Fig. 1 it will be seen that the switch plug or key 14 will be covered and incased within the hollow cover 13 and the device being secured against removal by the flexible anchors 24, 27, it will be impossible to actuate the coil box plug or key without removing the device and this cannot be accomplished until the lock 30 is disengaged or opened.

The arms hold the cover against shifting movement and the flexible anchors 24, 27 hold the same against accidental or unauthorized removal.

When it is desired to operate the coil box plug or key the lock 30 is unfastened and the whole device may be removed from the coil box, and placed in a convenient position where it will be out of the way but will be secured against loss by means of the flexible anchor 24. When the safety device is removed the flexible anchor 27 will hang in the corner of the vehicle from the fastening means 28.

While the preferred form of the invention is herein shown and described, it is to be understood that many changes may be made in the details of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts without departing from the spirit of this invention, and while the cover 13 and arms are shown as being constructed of separate pieces secured together, it is to be understood that if desired, they may be all cast or formed of an integral structure.

What is claimed as new is:

1. A coil box switch lock, embodying a cover adapted to be placed over the switch, arms connected with the cover and adapted to embrace the coil box, a flexible element connected with one of the arms adjacent one side of the coil box and permanently anchored at a point remote from the box, a second flexible element permanently anchored at a point remote from the box, and a lock proper for detachably securing the second recited element to another of the arms.

2. A coil box switch lock, embodying a cup shaped cover adapted to be placed over and receive the switch key, arms connected Copies of this patent may be obtained for with the cover, said arms extending over the face of the coil box, the ends of the arms being deflected to engage the side faces of the box, a flexible element secured to one of the arms and permanently anchored at a point remote from the box, a second flexible element permanently anchored at a point remote from the box, and means for detachably securing the free end of the second recited flexible element to another one of said arms. v

In witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name to this specification in the presence of two witnesses.

ROBERT L. MUNDELL. lVitnesses.

A. L. Boncn'r'r, J. A. TURNER.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C.

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