| CPC E05C 17/54 (2013.01) | 13 Claims |
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1. A trunk-lid hold-down for a motor vehicle, the trunk-lid hold-down comprising
a rigid metal insert plate in the form of a blade member formed as a rigid metallic flat bar of a suitable steel or, or the like, with the insert plate having a length direction and a width direction, the bar having a thickness of up to substantially an eighth inch, a length of three to four inches, and a width of up to substantially one inch, and being provided with a pair of eye-hole openings at opposite ends of said blade member, each eye-hole opening being oblong in the length direction of the bar, and up to substantially one inch long, up to a half-inch wide, and with edges of the eye hole openings and edges of the rigid metal flat bar being blunt and not sharp;
with each of said eye-hole openings being configured to receive therein a latch member of an associated trunk lid;
a length of sturdy, flexible cordage having an end secured to one of said eye-hole openings, and said cordage having another end configured to be secured to a hasp of a trunk-lid of the motor vehicle.
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