B - Operations – Transporting – 60 – B
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
60
B
301/37
B60B 7/04 (2006.01) B60B 7/18 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1159095
-13- WHEEL COVER MOUNTING BRACKET Abstract of the Disclosure An ornamental wheel cover for ornamental removable attachment to an automotive wheel comprises a rim portion having a retention means. The retention means gripingly engages the wheel. A central portion is disposed axially outward from the rim portion and has a central aperture therethrough. The aperture is in axial alignment with the axle upon which the wheel is rotatably mounted. locking pin is slidably disposed within the aperture and has a head portion at its outward facing end and a reduced portion at the inward facing end terminating in a radially extending pin member. The head portion is positioned outboard of the central portion of the wheel cover and captures a spring between the central portion and the inward facing radially extending portion the the head portion, in combination with a funnel shaped member provided with at least three radially projecting tabs. Each of the tabs has a hole therethrough for registration on the threaded studs to which the wheel is fixedly mounted to rotate with the wheel. Nuts positionally lock the radially projecting tabs on the studs wherein the central axis of the funnel shaped member is coincident with the axis of the axle and the locking pin. The funnel shaped member has an intermediate cylindrical portion which terminates in an inwardly flaring conical portion to surround the end of the axle. The conical portion has a slot therethrough for receiving the radially extending pin member when the locking pin is pressed inwardly against the biasing force of the spring. The radially extending pin member engages an outwardly facing detent formed on the -14- inner surface of the conical portion positioned perpendicularly to the slot provided through the conical portion. The detent is semi-circular and has substantially the same radius of curvature as the radially extending pin member such that the locking pin is lockingly positioned when the radially extending pin member comes to rest in the semicircular detent thereby positively locking the wheel cover to the funnel shaped member and, in turn, to the wheel member. Each of the radially projecting tabs are so positioned on the funnel shaped member such that they lie in the same plane at the base of the cylindrical mid portion. Each of the radially projecting tabs are provided with an axial slot.
374951
Kirby Eades Gale Baker
Rockwell International Corporation
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