Land vehicles: wheels and axles – Wheel – With wheel cover
Patent
1986-09-22
1988-04-19
Reeves, Robert B.
Land vehicles: wheels and axles
Wheel
With wheel cover
301 37P, 301 37PB, B60B 704
Patent
active
047384905
ABSTRACT:
A wheel cover mounting for plastic wheel covers comprising a mounting portion positioned in axial alignment with and spaced radially inward from a facing surface portion of a vehicle wheel. A spring wire retainer ring including radially outwardly extending projections spaced circumferentially around the ring in a substantially flat plane are received through circumferentially spaced openings in the mounting portion of the wheel cover. At least one, and preferably most if not all, of the openings are defined by guide walls circumferentially spaced apart a distance greater than the circumferential width of the projections in order to reduce frictional forces between the projections and the lugs and maximize the forces retaining the wheel cover on the wheel and in a fixed position with the wheel. The forces maintaining fixed positioning can be further increased by antirotational clips interposed between the wheel cover and a surface fixed for rotation with the wheel to resist relative rotational displacement of the wheel cover with respect to the wheel. Preferably, two spring clips including a resilient tang are disposed at diametrically opposed positions of the wheel cover with their tangs radially inclined in opposite rotational directions. The openings in the mounting portion near the spring clips are defined by guide walls spaced apart from each other a distance greater than the width of the projection extending through the opening so that the loading force of the spring clip does not affect the retaining force applied by the spring wire retainer.
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Reeves Robert B.
Stormer Russell D.
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