Automotive vehicle wheel cover lock

Details Automotive vehicle wheel cover lock Automotive vehicle wheel cover lock

1988-12-14

1989-09-26

Wolfe, Robert L.

Locks

Special application

For automotive vehicles

70164, 70 18, 301 37AT, E05B 6512

Patent

active

048690848

ABSTRACT:
An improved automotive vehicle wheel cover lock for releasably anchoring a wheel cover to a wheel lug stud, the improved wheel cover lock including a flexible cable having an annular terminal defining an opening adapted to receive the wheel lug stud. A locking housing is provided which defines an axially extending bore open at each end and having an internally threaded section at one end thereof and an enlarged section at the opposite end thereof. In addition, the housing defines a pair of aligned passageways which communicate with the enlarged section of the bore and are adapted to receive the cable, and a locking screw is provided which threadably engages the internally threaded section of the body and bears against the cable to deflect the cable within the elastic limits thereof into locking engagement with the edge portions of the housing that define the aligned passageways.

REFERENCES:
patent: 1520902 (1924-12-01), Junkunc
patent: 4055973 (1977-11-01), Best
patent: 4116490 (1978-09-01), Huff
patent: 4171851 (1979-10-01), Scruggs
patent: 4193640 (1980-03-01), Jones
patent: 4280348 (1981-07-01), Teston

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