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UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE.
RICHAD A. GULDEN, OF WEST DALLAS, TEXAS.
LOCKING DEVICE FOR MOTOR-VEHICLES.Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Mar. 13, 1917.
Application filed January 31, 1916. Serial No. 75,334.To all whomit may concern:
Be it known that I, RICHARD A. GULDEN,
citizen of the United States, residing at
West Dallas, in the county of Dallas and
5 State of Texas, have invented certain new
and- useful Improvements in Locking De-
vices for Motor-Vehicles, of which the fol-
lowing is a specification.
This invention relates to new and useful
10 improvements in locking devices for motor
vehicles.
The object of the invention is to lock the'
steering wheel of a motor vehicle so that
said wheel cannot be rotated sufficiently to
15 steer or guide the vehicle and by locking
the steering wheel in such a position that
the front wheels of the vehicle are held at
an angle to the longitudinal center of the
vehicle, the latter cannot be propelled or
20 to vedl either forward or rearward.
A further object of the invention is to
look the controlling levers for the gasolene
and throttle against operation so that the'
eIine cannot be operated.
25 in the present carrying out of the inven-
tion different constructions are required for
motor vehicles .of various manufacture, but
each form includes in common a pair of
34pright locking members tied to each other
30 atone end; whilfat the opposite end one
or more link members are hinged to one of
the upright members and engaged with the
other upright member, at which latter point
of intersection a lock is applied.
35 With the above and other objects in view
the invention involves certain novel fea-
tures of *construction and operation, ex-
amnples of which are described in the fol-
lowing specification and illustrated in the
40 accompanying drawings wherein:
Figure 1 is a plan view of the locking
device applied to a steering wheel, the latter
being shown in dotted lines, .
Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same,
45 Fig. 3 is a detail of a slightly modified
form,
Fig. 4 is a plan view similar to Fig. 1,
but showing another form of locking de-
vice,
50 Fig. 5 is a sectional view on the line 2-2
of Fig. 4,
Fig. 6 is a side elevation of the device
shown in the two preceding figures,
Fig, 7 is a plan view illustrating still an-
55 other fofmm,Fig. 8 is a side elevation of the same, one
of the mei eis being broken a way,
Fig. 9 is a side elevation of an inverted
form of locking device, and
Fig. 10 is an under side view of the same, 60
the steering post being shown in cross-
section.
In the drawings and throughout the sev-
eral figures the numeral 1 designates a
steering post, 2 a steering wheel, 3 a lever 65
seg nent, 4 the controlling levers of said
segijient, and 5 a nut holding the wheel 2'
in place. All of these parts are of common
construction and form no part of the in-
vention. 70'.
In Figs. 1 and 2 a locking device com-
pris ng a pair of upright or elongated mem-
bers 6 and 7 respectively, are shown. In
these figures as well as others, the parts
eniimerated in the foregoing paragraph are 75
shown in dotted lines while the invention
is illustrated in full lines. The members 6
and 7 have their lower ends connected by
an ari culate member or keeper 8 directed lat-
erally and adapted to embrace the post 1 80
as shown.
In applying the locking device the steer-
ing wheel 2 is rotated sufficiently to turn
the front wheels of the vehicle (notshown)
to one side and the controlling levers 4 are 85
pushed up to the highest point where they
stand substantially transverse of the wheel.
By turning the front wheels as stated and
then locking the steering wheel and levers
the vehicle cannot be moved either forward 90
or rearward but if started would move only
in a. circle, also the levers being locked the
engine could not be started.
With the steering wheel in the position
shown in Fig. 1 the upright members 6 and 95
7 are passed between the spiders of said
wheel and in front of the segment 3 so as to
project above the central web of the wheel
on each side of the nut .. I standing lugst
or pins 9 near each end of the keqpe :4hnd 100
adjacent the said members project Into the
paths of the levers 4 so that the saxie can-
not be advanced. The member 7 'as an.
eye 10 at its upper end in which .the end
of a link 11 is hinged. This link has an 106
angular notch 12 receiving one , corner of
the nut 5 when the link. is placed across
the wheel. At its free end the link $ pro-
vided with an elongated transverse eye 13
which receives an eye .14 on the ipper end 1101,218,856,
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Gulden, Richard A. Locking Device for Motor Vehicles, patent, March 13, 1917; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth860100/m1/4/: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.