Method of making a steering hand wheel

Details Method of making a steering hand wheel Method of making a steering hand wheel

1998-03-10

1999-04-27

Echols, P. W.

Metal working

Method of mechanical manufacture

Wheel making

29417, 74552, B21D 5326

Patent

active

058966617

ABSTRACT:
A method of making a steering hand wheel for a motor vehicle having a metal spider, a molded plastic rim, and a plurality of molded plastic spokes integral with the rim and mechanically interlocked with the spider. The method according to this invention includes the steps of extruding a billet having a cross sectional shape matching the profile of the spider, forming the spider by cutting off a flat section of the extruded billet from an end thereof, and insert molding a plastic rim and a plurality of integral plastic spokes around the spider. Each of the plastic spokes has an inboard end molded around a corresponding one of a plurality of spoke bases on the spider with a plurality of integral plastic pins captured in respective ones of a plurality of perforations in the spoke bases to mechanically interlock the spider and the molded plastic spokes.

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