Wheel cover retention

Details Wheel cover retention Wheel cover retention

1991-09-03

1992-11-17

Stormer, Russell D.

Land vehicles: wheels and axles

Wheel

With wheel cover

301 3742, 3011084, B60B 714

Patent

active

051637391

ABSTRACT:
A wheel cover retention system has a wheel cover with a cover face for covering a central portion of a wheel and a plurality of integral tubular extensions for attaching the wheel cover to the lug nuts of the wheel. Each extension has an outer end which opens onto the cover face and also including a plurality of slots extending axially from an inner end with the slots providing a plurality of fingers which axially forcibly engage with an annular rib of a respective lug nut. The fingers each have an abutment with a tapered wall for engaging the lug nut for flexing the finger radially outward as the wheel cover moves axially towards the wheel and a retaining wall for engaging the lug nut restricting disengaging of the fingers with the abutment. A one-piece wire band retainer has a plurality of circumferentially expanding rings. Each ring encircles the fingers of the tubular extensions of the wheel cover for limiting the outward radially movement of the flexible fingers and biasing the flexible fingers for engagement of the fingers with the lug nuts. The wheel cover is installed by axially forcing the cover toward the wheel as the fingers of the extension flex radially outward as they ratchet past the annular rib of respective lug nuts. The finger and the rings of the retainer restrict removal of the wheel cover from the wheel without removal of the lug nuts.

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patent: 4707035 (1987-11-01), Kondo et al.
patent: 4998780 (1991-03-01), Eshler et al.

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