Land vehicles: wheels and axles – Wheel – With wheel cover
Patent
1985-09-12
1987-07-14
Scherbel, David A.
Land vehicles: wheels and axles
Wheel
With wheel cover
301 37CD, B60B 700, B60B 702
Patent
active
046798617
ABSTRACT:
A wheel cover mounting which comprises a wheel cover having its back face formed with a plurality of receptacles positioned adjacent the periphery thereof, and a resilient retaining member for each receptacle inserted at one end thereof into the respective receptacle in a direction axially of the wheel. The other end of the resilient retaining member protrudes outwards from the receptacle and is adapted to be press-fitted into a space which is defined between a lateral wall of a wheel disc lying generally axially of the wheel and a lateral wall of a wheel rim lying generally axially of the wheel for detachably fitting the wheel cover to the wheel. The resilient retaining member is constituted by a metallic leaf spring and the outwardly protruding end has a pair of upturned spring catches extending in the opposite directions away from each other so as to represent a generally W-shaped configuration. One of the spring catches is adapted to resiliently engage the lateral wall of the wheel disc whereas the other of the spring catches is adapted to be inserted into and resiliently engage a hump area formed in the lateral wall of the wheel rim.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2827332 (1958-03-01), Chamberlin
patent: 4220373 (1980-09-01), Spisak
patent: 4348061 (1982-09-01), Bowling
Hosono Masami
Kohro Chihaya
Narita Yasuhide
Shirai Noboru
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