Safety automobile door locking device

Claim 1

IN AN AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLE, THE COMBINATION OF A DOOR FRAME, A DOOR, AND A SAFETY DOOR LOCKING DEVICE COMPRISING A PAIR OF SIMILARLY CONSTRUCTED KEEPER MEMBERS INTERPOSED BETWEEN SAID FRAME AND SAID DOOR AND SECURED RESPECTIVELY THERETO IN REVERSELY ORIENTED POSITION, EACH OF SAID KEEPER MEMBERS COMPRISING A STRAP, A TONGUE PARALLEL WITH BUT SPACED FROM SAID STRAP, AND AN OFFSET PORTION CONNECTING ONE END OF SAID TONGUE TO SAID STRAP, THE SPACE BETWEEN SAID TONGUE AND THE STRAP CONSTITUTING A SLOT OPEN AT THE END OF THE TONGUE REMOTE FROM SAID OFFSET PORTION, THE TONGUE OF ONE OF SAID KEEPER MEMBERS BEING RECEIVED IN THE SLOT OF THE OTHER KEEPER MEMBER WHEN THE DOOR IS CLOSED, THE STRAPS AND THE TONGUES OF THE KEEPER MEMBERS BEING PROVIDED WITH ALIGNED APERTURES HAVING AXES WHICH INTERSECT THE SLOTS THEREOF AND WHICH ARE IN REGISTER IN THE CLOSED POSITION OF THE DOOR, A PROJECTABLE AND RETRACTABLE KEEPER PIN SLIDABLE IN THE REGISTERING APERTURES FOR LOCKING THE DOOR IN ITS CLOSED POSITION WHEN SAID PIN IS PROJECTED, RESILIENT MEANS FOR URGING SAID PIN TO ITS RETRACTED POSITION, AND POWER-OPERATED MEANS FOR PROJECTING SAID PIN AGAINST THE ACTION OF SAID RESILIENT MEANS, SAID LAST MENTIONED MEANS INCLUDING AN ELECTRO-MAGNET MOUNTED IN SAID DOOR FRAME FOR SLIDING SAID PIN TO ITS PROJECTED POSITION.