Push-button type steering wheel lock

Claim 1

A push-button type steering wheel lock comprising a lock case; a lock panel covering one side of said lock case and having a plurality of openings therethrough; a pair of J shaped lock stems, with one each extending from opposite ends of said lock case; a slider having a portion extending through a seal from said lock case; a plurality of card boards extending as pushkeys through said openings in said lock panel with identification ciphers on said pushkeys from which a code number can be produced by the permutation and combination of said ciphers; said pushkeys having individually shaped dents; a keyway provided centrally in said slider with a plurality of projections, with notches between said projections, on both sides of said keyway; said projections having one side extended as an L shaped detent symmetrically placed and interacting with said trapezoidal notches and aligned for free movement upon depression of said card boards in a predetermined code; one of said lock stems having a tubular construction and the other of said lock stems of solid construction with notches therein; a detent, spring biased to enter said notches in said lock stem through an opening in said tubular lock stem and allowing outstretching of said lock stems when compressing a spring of said spring biased detent whereupon the lock is brought to an opening condition; said slider in a depressed condition against a spring bias, setting dents on both sides of said central keyway to a position with said card boards extending in said notches; a reset lever having a prop connected to act with said card boards with said reset lever bringing said prop upwards until the prop causes said card boards to bear upon the projections on said slider preventing movement of said slider concurrent with an extended L shaped detent extending outwardly from said slider engaged in an annular groove of said spring biased detent extended into an annular notch on said J shaped lock stem of solid construction.