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A device is disclosed for securing items, such as boat batteries and gas tanks, against theft and breakage. The locking unit is formed of dual base units, hingeably connected to vertical walls. The base units are connected to a support structure through use of screws or bolts. The top plates are con

A device is disclosed for securing items, such as boat batteries and gas tanks, against theft and breakage. The locking unit is formed of dual base units, hingeably connected to vertical walls. The base units are connected to a support structure through use of screws or bolts. The top plates are connected to the vertical walls through use of hinges. The top plates can be provided with an adjustable locking member to secure various sized containers. L-shaped plates can be used to prevent any end to end horizontal movement of the container while the locking unit prevents side to side and vertical movement. The base unit can be one or two pieces, depending upon required adjustability. Parallel, opposing, side units, are affixed to the base unit at approximately right angles and a pair of top locking plates are then secured at right angles to the opposite end of the side units. The object is secured within the locking device through use of a lock which secures the top locking plates to one another. The side unit can be chamfered proximate the top locking plates and/or the base unit. A first side unit has a length greater than the second side unit allowing the first locking plate to overlap the second plate. The plates are locked together, through the use of a hasp or similar device, proximate the point of overlap.

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[ What is claimed is:] [1.] A locking device for maintaining an object in a stationary position in relation to a structure, comprising in combination an object and a locking device, said object having at least three pairs of opposing parallel surfaces, said locking device having:a pair of base units

[ What is claimed is:] [1.] A locking device for maintaining an object in a stationary position in relation to a structure, comprising in combination an object and a locking device, said object having at least three pairs of opposing parallel surfaces, said locking device having:a pair of base units, each of said base units having securing means, said securing means independently securing each of said base units, at a user defined location, to said structure, said base units contacting said object proximate a midpoint of a first surface of a first pair of said at least three pairs of opposing parallel surfaces;a pair of parallel, opposing, side units, each of said side units being at approximately right angles to, and affixed to, one of said base units to prevent lateral movement in a first direction;a pair of top locking plates, said locking plates being at approximately right angles to said side units, a first of said locking plates overlapping a second of said locking plates;adjustable locking means, said locking means locking said first locking plate to said second locking plate at a user selected point to maintain said object in said stationary position;at least one pair of hinge means;whereby said pair of base units enables user adjustability of said locking device to said object's individual base size and said adjustable locking means enables adjustability of said locking device to said object's individual top size and prevent removal of said object from said locking device and said side units restrict movement of said object in a first direction.