Quickly removable ignition coil installation for automobile theft prevention

Abstract

Abstract An ignition coil receptacle adapted to be mounted near an automobile engine has a removable cover containing first, second and third low-tension terminals and a single high-tension terminal detachable engageable respectively with first, second and third correspondingly located low-tension electrodes and a single high-tension electrode mounted in the end cap of an automobile ignition induction coil removably mounted in the receptacle. One end of the primary winding of the coil is connected as usual to one end of the secondary winding thereof and their common junction is connected to the first low-tension electrode which in turn is connected directly to the second lowtension electrode. The opposite end of the primary winding is connected to the third low-tension electrode whereas the opposite end of the secondary winding is connected to the single hightension electrode. The first, second and third low-tension cover terminals are connected to first, second and third low-tension cables and the single high-tension cover terminal to a hightension cable, all of these cables being contained within a flexible tubular casing. The first low-tension cable leads to a conventional timer, the opposite pole of which is grounded. The interconnected second low-tension cable is connected to one side of the conventional coil condenser, the opposite side of which is grounded to the engine. The third low-tension cable leads to one terminal of a conventional storage battery, the opposite terminal of which is grounded to the automobile frame. The single hightension cable is connected to the rotor of the conventional distributor, the fixed poles of which are connected to the central electrode of the spark plug whose casings are grounded to the engine. Upon leaving the automobile, the driver pulls outward upon the receptacle cover, thereby withdrawing the coil and cover as a unit from the receptacle. He then pulls the cover terminals and coil electrodes apart from one another to separate them, replaces the cover upon the receptacle, and carries the ignition coil away with him, thereby preventing theft of the automobile.

Inventors

• 👤 Ernest Brunside

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