Land vehicles: wheels and axles – Wheel – Device for attaching wheel to axle
Reexamination Certificate
2007-10-09
2007-10-09
Stormer, Russell D. (Department: 3617)
Land vehicles: wheels and axles
Wheel
Device for attaching wheel to axle
C301S111010, C301S111030
Reexamination Certificate
active
11194981
ABSTRACT:
A hub has an inner surface defining a bore centered on an axis, an outer surface surrounding the inner surface, and two slots extending in radially opposite directions from the bore to the outer surface. A shaft is configured to be received in the bore and has a circumferentially extending groove. A bent wire spring clip is configured to engage and mechanically interlock the hub and the shaft. The clip has a C-shaped section, two diametrically opposed bowed sections extending from opposite ends of the C-shaped section, and a two straight end sections respectively extending from ends of the two bowed sections to two distal ends of the clip. The clip is configured to have an installed position in which the bowed sections of the clip extend circumferentially in the groove at opposite sides of the shaft, and the end sections and the C-shaped section extend radially outward through the slots.
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Barr Carl M.
Smith David Scott
Jones Day
Stormer Russell D.
The Scott & Fetzer Company
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