Land vehicles: wheels and axles – Wheel – With wheel cover
Patent
1997-12-15
2000-02-29
Dayoan, D. Glenn
Land vehicles: wheels and axles
Wheel
With wheel cover
B60B 714
Patent
active
060300493
ABSTRACT:
A wheel cover retention system includes a plurality of apertures for registration with wheel lug nuts. A lug nut cap coupling member is carried in each aperture. The cap includes external threads which engage internal threads of the aperture and internal threads which engage external threads formed on the lug nut. The rotation of the caps relative to the wheel cover advances the caps into engagement with the lug nuts and continued rotation locks the caps in threaded engagement with the lug nuts. In an alternate embodiment, a threaded collar is snap fit into each aperture with the collar being locked against rotation and axial movement relative to the wheel cover. The external threads of the cap engage the threads of the collar. Limited translational movement of the collar within the aperture is permitted so that the caps can be adjusted relative to the wheel cover to facilitate registration of the caps with the lug nuts.
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Dayoan D. Glenn
Del-Met Corporation
Nguyen Long Bao
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