Patent ID: 7661280

Claim:
A locking device, comprising: a. a lock housing shaped in part to form a concave arc and formed of two or more mating sections, having a lock section and one or more supplementary sections, which are secured together to or around an object, b. a cable receiving bore extending into said lock section, c. a fastener receiving bore aligned with and extending said cable receiving bore through said lock section and into said supplementary sections, d. a threaded fastener for fixedly attaching all said sections of said lock housing to or around said object, e. a lock mechanism that is mounted in said lock section and incorporates an active locking element, f. a flexible cable having plural permanently formed spiral convolutions formed therein to reduce the length of said cable that is permanently secured at one end to said lock section, and g. a passive plug-in element that is secured to the other end of said cable and is adapted to enter said cable receiving bore and to releasably interlock therein with said active locking element, whereby said cable is partially held in place by said concave arc of said lock housing, and forms a closed retaining loop, and said active locking element acts both to secure said cable in said lock housing and to deny access to said fastener so as to resist removal of said locking device from said object.