Wheel cover assembly having anti-theft retainer system

Details Wheel cover assembly having anti-theft retainer system Wheel cover assembly having anti-theft retainer system

1996-04-29

1997-01-21

Stormer, Russell O.

Land vehicles: wheels and axles

Wheel

With wheel cover

301 3737, B60B 716

Patent

active

055954227

ABSTRACT:
A wheel cover assembly for covering the wheel of an automotive vehicle has a main body portion formed with a plurality of circumferentially spaced wells having integral cap portions to receive and conceal the lug nuts of the wheel. Locking arms project axially from the wells and embrace the lug nuts to lock the cover member securely on the wheel. Expansion slots are provided between the locking arms of each well to facilitate the disengagement of the locking arms from the lug nuts. A special anti-theft release tool is insertable into the expansion slots forcing the locking arms radially outwardly of one another sufficiently to release the lug nuts and permit the wheel cover to be removed from the wheel.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2874561 (1959-02-01), Alger
patent: 4842339 (1989-06-01), Roulinson
patent: 4998780 (1991-03-01), Eshler et al.
patent: 5163739 (1992-11-01), Stanlake

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