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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 1988
Filed:
Jun. 02, 1987
Robert J Finnegan, Williston, VT (US);
The Shelburne Corporation, Shelburne, VT (US);
Abstract
Anti-theft cable-locked security is provided for articles mounted to a roof rack and for the roof rack itself, by providing a set or kit of two flexible-cable subassemblies, each of which has a closed-door stop block at one end of its cable, and each of which also has a headed slide which is engageable to an elongate slide-track channel formation on the underside of a roof rack. Certain commercially available roof racks already have such a slide-track slide formation, but for those not thus equipped, an additional channel element can be provided for permanent incorporation in an existing rack. A first one of the subassemblies has a relatively short length of cable, and the headed slide is adjustably clamped to the cable via a knurled nut which is manually set before assembly to the slide track of the rack; once in the slide track, further manual adjustment or tampering is foreclosed. The other subassembly has a relatively great length of cable, and a headed slide may be fixed or adjustably clamped to the cable, at predetermined offset from the involved stop block; the free end of the cable is long enough to wrap the rack-mounted article (or articles) and, if desired, also to wrap the rack bar, to the extent that the free end of the cable can be anchored to the headed slide of the first subassembly. The only necessary adjustment is for positioning the slide of the short-cable assembly, such that upon assembly to the slide track and locked closure of both doors, the article (or articles) and the rack are both anti-theft secure upon the automobile roof.