Patent ID: 7204109
Filing Date: 2007-04-17
Classification: B60R,Y10T

Abstract:
1. 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.