Land vehicles: wheels and axles – Wheel – With wheel cover
Patent
1991-05-22
1992-11-10
Stormer, Russell D.
Land vehicles: wheels and axles
Wheel
With wheel cover
301 371, 3011083, B60B 704
Patent
active
051618605
ABSTRACT:
A wheel cap includes a disk-shaped base made of resin, a plurality of resin engagers integral with the base and disposed at intervals in a circumferential direction on the rear surface of the base and protruding perpendicularly therefrom so as to be deformable in a radial direction, a head formed at the free end of the leg to engage with a wheel, and a ring-shaped metal wire holder held on an inner peripheral side of the engagers and urging the heads radially outward, wherein each head includes a space for holding the holder therein, the space being disposed on an inner peripheral side of the head and including an opening thereto for receiving the holder having a width about equal to or slightly less than the wire diameter of the holder, the dimension of holder space perpendicularly of the base is larger than the holder wire diameter so that the holder is movable in the space perpendicularly with respect to the base. Even when the wheel cap is subjected to a shock and is moved eccentrically, the holder can relieve the eccentric displacement and will not come out of the holder space via the opening because it can move in the space and the holder-receiving opening is restricted. Hence, the wheel cap is greatly inhibited from coming off the wheel.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4740038 (1988-04-01), Okano et al.
patent: 4995674 (1991-02-01), Shiria et al.
Stormer Russell D.
Toyoda Gosei Co,., Ltd.
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