B - Operations – Transporting – 60 – B
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
60
B
B60B 23/06 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2304060
A method of centering a wheel rim on a wheel hub of a vehicle is provided where the hub includes a center projection arranged to engage a central hole in the rim to effect a centering action and a plurality of threaded wheel support studs carried on the hub in a pattern surrounding a central axis of the hub. The method includes providing three or four female threaded fasteners each for engaging onto a respective one of the studs for clamping the rim to the hub. Each fastener has an integral body defining a sleeve portion and a nut portion with a female thread through a central bore. The sleeve portion is inserted between the cylindrical inner surface and the threaded portion of the stud as a sliding fit inside the cylindrical inner surface so as to accurately locate the hole relative to the stud for centering the rim on the hub and the nut portion clamps the rim to the hub. The fasteners are spaced angularly around the hub and conventional nuts are engaged onto the remaining studs to hold the rim in place. When held the centering fasteners can be removed.
Battison Williams Dupuis
Lupyrypa Raymond L.
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