Land vehicles: wheels and axles – Wheel – With wheel cover
Patent
1989-02-06
1990-10-09
Stormer, Russell D.
Land vehicles: wheels and axles
Wheel
With wheel cover
301108SC, 301 37AT, B60B 704
Patent
active
049616110
ABSTRACT:
Ornamental auto wheels mounted with conventional lug bolts or nuts and designed to be used without wheel covers are provided with ornamental wheel covers that cover only the lugs and hub area to discourage theft of the wheels. The end of a threaded shaft is attached to the center of an elongated bar which may pass through the hub hole at an angle and which is axially locked in the hub hole and against the rear surface of the wheel by a front plate screwed onto the shaft. The wheel cover to be mounted has a flanged tubular shaped nut retaining cup which has a central hole that will pass only the smaller diameter of two diameters of a locking nut which is threaded onto the shaft to secure the wheel cover to the wheel. The larger outer end of the nut closely fits within the larger diameter of the retaining cup, the outwardly extending flange of which prevents its passage through the wheel cover. The exterior end surface of the locking nut is "keyed" with holes spaced to fit pegs of a special spanner for removal of the nuts and the close spacing between the nut surface and the retain cup prevents removal by pliers or other normal tools.
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Castle Linval B.
Stormer Russell D.
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