Abstract: A locking load binder having a conical lock tongue mounted on the handle and a keeper link secured to the yoke on one side of the handle and adapted to cooperate with the lock tongue to secure the handle thereto. The lock tongue includes cam driven locking balls which cooperate with the keeper link.

Abstract: A locking unit for immobilizing road vehicles to prevent their unauthorized removal comprises a sealed body which houses a movable locking member projecting from the housing and adapted for connection with a brake or clutch operating foot pedal or hand lever or with the control valve of an air-powered parking brake system. The sealed body also houses a key-released lock of the rotary barrel type having its plunger movable into locking engagement with the locking member manually without use of the key. The locking member may be a ratchet wheel engageable by a pawl which is pushed into engagement by the lock plunger acting on a spring. Further springs ensure the pawl being held clear of the wheel when the lock plunger is withdrawn. A modified form of the unit has a fixed jaw and a movable jaw by which the unit can be clamped around the stem of the draw-pin of a trailer vehicle and locked without using the key, thereby to prevent the hitch of a tractor from being coupled thereto.

Abstract: A tumbler lock securing device that can be applied to the double casement windows and doors without altering of the casement structure but can be simply detachably placed over opposing window or door handles in their depending latched positions and locking ratchet arms squeezed through a tumbler lock and pawl mechanism. Pawl levers are upwardly spring pressed toward ratchet teeth on the bottom edges of the locking arms that respectively extend in opposite directions and are released only with a key that turns the tumbler lock centerpiece and a depressible cam fixed thereto that acts upon one of two pawl levers but through an interlock arrangement between one of the pawls and the other so that upward spring action for the both pawls is served by but one compression spring. The lock and pawl mechanism can be separated from the locking arms or can be left locked to one of the casement handles when unlatched.

Abstract: A locking device for securely engaging a pair of snow skis with sliding surfaces juxtaposed. The lock comprises a pair of ski encompassing jaws pivotally connected at one end and lockable at the other end. The jaws may be separable at the pivotal end and may also include an integral securement device for securing the lock to a post, rack or the like.

Abstract: A locking device for a looped cable includes a casing in which one end of the cable is anchored, there being a passageway through the casing through which the other end of the cable can be passed. Within the casing is a cable clamp for reducing the size of the passageway, the clamp being threaded on a screw and movable to change the size of the passageway by rotation of the screw. The screw is rotatable by rotation of a lock mounted in the casing, the lock being rotatable by a key. The clamp cooperates with a bed to define the passageway, the clamp and bed having intercalated pyramidal teeth which can exert a vise-like grip on a cable of normally cylindrical shape.

Abstract: Improvement in a doorbar device for barring the door of a doorway, the doorway having doorjambs and a door therefor, the door having a doorknob, the doorbar device comprising a doorknob constructed to be affixed to the doorjambs of the doorway to extend across and bar the door from being opened, the doorbar device also comprising a mechanism for applying a force upon the doorknob to prevent turning thereof.

Abstract: A self securing theft proof chain binder, such as would be used to tightly cinch a chain tightly holding a cargo to a truck flat bed. The binder has hooks on either of its ends to attach to the ends of the chain overlapping the cargo and the binder is pivoted in the middle so that when it has been squeezed together it tightly draws together the two ends of the chain. The lever arm on the binder has projecting spur with notch teeth therein which in turn mates with a lock on the other half of the binder so that when the two halves are squeezed together they lock in place.

Abstract: This invention is directed to a method and an apparatus for securing a bicycle to a bicycle rack. In particular, this invention may be used to secure bicycles to a bicycle rack which mounts on a car bumper.

Abstract: A ski lock device for safely clamping a pair of skis in crossed relation to each other to prevent theft. The device includes a pair of clamps that fit about a first ski and over a second ski, with the second ski in crossed relation to the first. Each clamp consists of a pair of slotted members joined together by a threaded joint. A padlock clasp snaps through a hole in each clamp joint to lock the device in place.SUMMARY OF THE INVENTIONMy invention is a ski lock device for safely clamping a pair of skis in crossed relation to each other to prevent theft. The device includes a pair of clamps that fit about a first ski and over a second ski, with the second ski in crossed relation to the first. Each clamp consists of a pair of slotted members joined together by a threaded joint. A padlock clasp snaps through a hole in each clamp joint to lock the device in place.The device, in the locked position maintains a pair of skis in a crossed relation making an unwieldy package for a thief.

Abstract: A chain having a spring-loaded locking tongs at one or both ends for snapping onto a link of the chain or onto a ring provided for that purpose. Collar and chain combinations especially adapted for use for animals are described.