Land vehicles: wheels and axles – Wheel – With wheel cover
Reexamination Certificate
2005-02-22
2005-02-22
Stormer, Russell D. (Department: 3617)
Land vehicles: wheels and axles
Wheel
With wheel cover
C301S037310, C301S108100
Reexamination Certificate
active
06857708
ABSTRACT:
A wheel cover for a vehicle wheel has a holding device which is activated by a lateral pressing-on of the appropriately position wheel cover, to fix the wheel cover on the wheel body. The holding device is deactivated by another pressing-on of the wheel cover in the same direction, so that the wheel cover can then easily be removed from the wheel body. For this purpose, the holding device includes a connecting link path as well as a detent pin guided therein during the mounting of the wheel cover. During mounting of the wheel cover on the wheel body, the free end of the detent pin is guided in the connecting link path such that, a first pressing-on of the wheel cover causes it to arrive in a detent position in the connecting link path, while a second pressing-on changes it out of the detent position, into a connecting link path section by way of which the detent pin can be guided out of the connecting link path. The wheel cover can preferably be pressed onto the wheel body against a spring force. While the detent pin is fastened on the wheel cover, this fastening and/or the detent pin itself being at least slightly flexible, the connecting link path is provided in a wheel hub insert which can be inserted in the wheel body.
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Hartl Robert
Lindner Ulrich
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG
Crowell & Moring LLP
Stormer Russell D.
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