GB2113158A - Cover or hub cap for a vehicle wheel - Google Patents

Cover or hub cap for a vehicle wheel Download PDF

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GB2113158A
GB2113158A GB08300143A GB8300143A GB2113158A GB 2113158 A GB2113158 A GB 2113158A GB 08300143 A GB08300143 A GB 08300143A GB 8300143 A GB8300143 A GB 8300143A GB 2113158 A GB2113158 A GB 2113158A
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Helmut Wirsing
Herman Horn
Gerd Spathling
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Kittel Carl & Co KG GmbH
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60B—VEHICLE WHEELS; CASTORS; AXLES FOR WHEELS OR CASTORS; INCREASING WHEEL ADHESION
    • B60B7/00—Wheel cover discs, rings, or the like, for ornamenting, protecting, venting, or obscuring, wholly or in part, the wheel body, rim, hub, or tyre sidewall, e.g. wheel cover discs, wheel cover discs with cooling fins
    • B60B7/06—Fastening arrangements therefor
    • B60B7/061—Fastening arrangements therefor characterised by the part of the wheels to which the discs, rings or the like are mounted
    • B60B7/068—Fastening arrangements therefor characterised by the part of the wheels to which the discs, rings or the like are mounted to the wheel bolts or wheel nuts
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60B—VEHICLE WHEELS; CASTORS; AXLES FOR WHEELS OR CASTORS; INCREASING WHEEL ADHESION
    • B60B7/00—Wheel cover discs, rings, or the like, for ornamenting, protecting, venting, or obscuring, wholly or in part, the wheel body, rim, hub, or tyre sidewall, e.g. wheel cover discs, wheel cover discs with cooling fins
    • B60B7/06—Fastening arrangements therefor
    • B60B7/12—Fastening arrangements therefor comprising an annular spring or gripping element mounted on the cover

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Abstract

A wheel cover or hub cap, is provided with a wire ring (7) which is mounted on axial projections (3,4) of the cover or cap such that in use the ring engages, directly or indirectly via the projections, with the wheel mounting nuts (6) or bolts to secure the cover or cap to the wheel. As illustrated the ring (7) is mounted on the radially outer surfaces of alternate rigid (3) and resilient (4) projections, the latter snapping behind the wheel nuts (6) in use. <IMAGE>

Description

SPECIFICATION Wheel trim or hub cap for a vehicle wheel The invention relates to a wheel trim as a hub cap or as a full-width wheel trim, more especially on the wheels of passenger cars, there being provided on the inside of the wheel trim axial projections, on which a wire ring, serving for fastening to the wheel rim, is mounted.
On known wheel trims of this kind (US PS 27 46 805, DE OSs 26 22908,2943137, 2943 138 and 29 43 139), the wire ring causes a resilient tab to engage in the hump of the wheel rim. This mode of fastening is only suitable for fullwidth wheel trims since the wire ring has a diameter corresponding to the hump.
The task underlying the present invention is to provide a mode of fastening which is equally suitable for hub caps and full-width wheel trims, using a wire ring.
According to the invention, this problem is solved in that the wire ring is suitably shaped or arranged for springing directly or indirectly axially behind the wheel nuts or wheel bolts of the wheel hub.
The invention presupposes the realisation that there is a possibility of engaging a ring-like fastening means in the wheel rim hub zone without the need for any constructional changes on the rim. As a suitable location for this purpose there was found the so-called wheel nut or wheel bolt. These fastening parts have a screw head, adjacent to which there is a cone and, in the case of the wheel bolt, a stud. Between the screw head and the bulging of the rim following inwardly in the axial direction, in the bore of which the cone sits, the wire ring engages either directly or via a resilient projection connected to the wheel trim.
Considered radially, an engagement both inside and outside the wheel nut or bolt is possible. The wire ring and the projection bear against the cone of the wheel nut or wheel bolt.
The wire ring preferably lies radially outside on the projections. An alternating arrangement of resilient and rigid projections ensures that the wire ring biases the resilient projections radially inwardly so that, as the wheel trim is pressed on, they snap softly over the external circumference of the wheel nuts or wheel bolts and engage behind these, lying between the screw head and the hub part of the wheel rim. In order to increase this spring action even more, it is advantageous if the resilient projections are provided so as to be radially further to the outside than the rigid projections; accordingly, the wire ring has deflections in the zone of the resilient projections.
These deflections simultaneously serve for the fixing of the wheel trim so that it is secured against rotation, namely in that the deflections form obtuse angles with circular wire sections located therebetween, in such a way that the oblique legs of the deflections bear from two sides against the lateral circumference of the wheel nuts or wheel bolts.
A constructional form of the invention will hereinafter be described with reference to the drawings, in which: Fig. 1 shows a partial top view of the wheel trim, Fig. 2 shows a section through the wheel trim according to Il-Il of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 shows an axial section through the wheel trim according to Ill-Ill of Fig. 1.
A hub cap shown on the scale 1:1 comprises a cylindrical part 1 as well as a cover part not shown, both made as plastics material injection mouldings, for example in polyurethane. The cover part is interlocked with the cylindrical part 1 in the zone of the edge 2 thereof. The cylindrical part 1 has projections on its rear in the direction of the wheel axle a, these being alternately rigid projections 3 and resilient projections 4 which are distributed over the whole circumference in 36 divisions. The rigid projections 3 are secured against deformation by means of ribs 5. in accordance with the number of wheel nuts provided, provision is made for altogether five resilient projections 4.Both the resilient projections 4 and the rigid projections 3 are embraced from radially outside by a wire ring 7, that is to say the wire ring 7 is pressed over the projections by the resilient expansion thereof. As a result of the biasing of the wire ring 7 brought about during this process, the resilient projections 4 are pressed radially inside according to the arrow p. When the hub cap is pressed against the wheel rim, the resilient projections 4, with their end 8 which partly embraces the wire ring 7, therefore snap behind the wheel nuts 6, as shown in Fig. 3. The end 8 of the resilient projections 4 engages between the head 9 of the wheel nut 6 and the wheel hub 11 bulge 10 located therebehind, thus lying approximately in the zone of the cone 12 of the wheel nut 6.The wire ring 7 ensures the axial contact pressure of the external end 8 of the resilient projections 4, as shown by the arrow p. In the zone of the resilient projections 4, the wire ring 7 has deflections 14, whose lateral legs 1 5 form obtuse angles with circular segments 1 6 of the wire ring 7 located therebetween. The legs 1 5 of the deflections 14 bear laterally approximately tangentially against the wheel nuts 6 in the points 13; by this means, any rotation of the hub cap around the wheel axle a is effectively prevented.
The wire ring itself consists of a spring wire made of steel. Instead of a hub cap, any other form of wheel trim is suitable, for example a full-width wheel trim or only an ornamental ring, for the application of the fastening proposed according to the invention by means of a wire ring which engages directly or indirectly, radially inwardly or radially outwardly, behind the wheel nuts or wheel bolts.
1. A wheel trim as a hub cap or full-width wheel trim, more especially on wheels of passenger cars, there being provided on the inside of the wheel trim axial projections on which a wire ring, serving
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  1. **WARNING** start of CLMS field may overlap end of DESC **.
    SPECIFICATION Wheel trim or hub cap for a vehicle wheel The invention relates to a wheel trim as a hub cap or as a full-width wheel trim, more especially on the wheels of passenger cars, there being provided on the inside of the wheel trim axial projections, on which a wire ring, serving for fastening to the wheel rim, is mounted.
    On known wheel trims of this kind (US PS 27 46 805, DE OSs 26 22908,2943137, 2943 138 and 29 43 139), the wire ring causes a resilient tab to engage in the hump of the wheel rim. This mode of fastening is only suitable for fullwidth wheel trims since the wire ring has a diameter corresponding to the hump.
    The task underlying the present invention is to provide a mode of fastening which is equally suitable for hub caps and full-width wheel trims, using a wire ring.
    According to the invention, this problem is solved in that the wire ring is suitably shaped or arranged for springing directly or indirectly axially behind the wheel nuts or wheel bolts of the wheel hub.
    The invention presupposes the realisation that there is a possibility of engaging a ring-like fastening means in the wheel rim hub zone without the need for any constructional changes on the rim. As a suitable location for this purpose there was found the so-called wheel nut or wheel bolt. These fastening parts have a screw head, adjacent to which there is a cone and, in the case of the wheel bolt, a stud. Between the screw head and the bulging of the rim following inwardly in the axial direction, in the bore of which the cone sits, the wire ring engages either directly or via a resilient projection connected to the wheel trim.
    Considered radially, an engagement both inside and outside the wheel nut or bolt is possible. The wire ring and the projection bear against the cone of the wheel nut or wheel bolt.
    The wire ring preferably lies radially outside on the projections. An alternating arrangement of resilient and rigid projections ensures that the wire ring biases the resilient projections radially inwardly so that, as the wheel trim is pressed on, they snap softly over the external circumference of the wheel nuts or wheel bolts and engage behind these, lying between the screw head and the hub part of the wheel rim. In order to increase this spring action even more, it is advantageous if the resilient projections are provided so as to be radially further to the outside than the rigid projections; accordingly, the wire ring has deflections in the zone of the resilient projections.
    These deflections simultaneously serve for the fixing of the wheel trim so that it is secured against rotation, namely in that the deflections form obtuse angles with circular wire sections located therebetween, in such a way that the oblique legs of the deflections bear from two sides against the lateral circumference of the wheel nuts or wheel bolts.
    A constructional form of the invention will hereinafter be described with reference to the drawings, in which: Fig. 1 shows a partial top view of the wheel trim, Fig. 2 shows a section through the wheel trim according to Il-Il of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 shows an axial section through the wheel trim according to Ill-Ill of Fig. 1.
    A hub cap shown on the scale 1:1 comprises a cylindrical part 1 as well as a cover part not shown, both made as plastics material injection mouldings, for example in polyurethane. The cover part is interlocked with the cylindrical part 1 in the zone of the edge 2 thereof. The cylindrical part 1 has projections on its rear in the direction of the wheel axle a, these being alternately rigid projections 3 and resilient projections 4 which are distributed over the whole circumference in 36 divisions. The rigid projections 3 are secured against deformation by means of ribs 5. in accordance with the number of wheel nuts provided, provision is made for altogether five resilient projections 4.Both the resilient projections 4 and the rigid projections 3 are embraced from radially outside by a wire ring 7, that is to say the wire ring 7 is pressed over the projections by the resilient expansion thereof. As a result of the biasing of the wire ring 7 brought about during this process, the resilient projections 4 are pressed radially inside according to the arrow p. When the hub cap is pressed against the wheel rim, the resilient projections 4, with their end 8 which partly embraces the wire ring 7, therefore snap behind the wheel nuts 6, as shown in Fig. 3. The end 8 of the resilient projections 4 engages between the head 9 of the wheel nut 6 and the wheel hub 11 bulge 10 located therebehind, thus lying approximately in the zone of the cone 12 of the wheel nut 6.The wire ring 7 ensures the axial contact pressure of the external end 8 of the resilient projections 4, as shown by the arrow p. In the zone of the resilient projections 4, the wire ring 7 has deflections 14, whose lateral legs 1 5 form obtuse angles with circular segments 1 6 of the wire ring 7 located therebetween. The legs 1 5 of the deflections 14 bear laterally approximately tangentially against the wheel nuts 6 in the points 13; by this means, any rotation of the hub cap around the wheel axle a is effectively prevented.
    The wire ring itself consists of a spring wire made of steel. Instead of a hub cap, any other form of wheel trim is suitable, for example a full-width wheel trim or only an ornamental ring, for the application of the fastening proposed according to the invention by means of a wire ring which engages directly or indirectly, radially inwardly or radially outwardly, behind the wheel nuts or wheel bolts.
    1. A wheel trim as a hub cap or full-width wheel trim, more especially on wheels of passenger cars, there being provided on the inside of the wheel trim axial projections on which a wire ring, serving for fastening to the wheel rim, is mounted, characterised in that the wire ring is suitably shaped or arranged for springing directly or indirectly axially behind the wheel nuts or wheel bolts of the wheel hub.
    2. A wheel trim as claimed in claim 1, characterised in that the wire ring rests radially outwardly on the projections.
    3. A wheel trim as claimed in claim 1 or 2, characterised in that the projections are formed alternately rigid and resilient.
    4. A wheel trim as claimed in one of claims 1 to 3, characterised in that the resilient projections are provided so as to be radially further outside than the rigid projections.
    5. A wheel trim as claimed in one of claims 1 to 4, characterised in that the wire ring has deflections in the zone of the resilient projections.
    6. A wheel trim as claimed in one of claims 1 to 5, characterised in that the resilient projections, which are radially inwardly tensioned by the deflections of the wire ring, are suitably shaped for engaging behind the screw head of the wheel nut or wheel bolt.
    7. A wheel trim as claimed in one of claims 1 to 6, characterised in that the deflections form obtuse angles with circular wire ring segments located therebetween, in such a way that the oblique legs of the deflections bear from two sides against the lateral circumference of the wheel nuts or wheel bolts.
    8. A wheel trim or hub cap substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
    New claims or amendments to claims filed on 12 April 1983.
    Superseded claims 1.
    New or amended claims:
    1. A wheel trim as a hub cap or full-width wheel trim, more especially on wheels of passenger cars, there being provided on the inside of the wheel trim axial projections on which a wire ring, serving for fastening to the wheel rim, is mounted, characterised in that the wire ring is suitably shaped or arranged for springing indirectly axially behind the wheel nuts or wheel bolts of the wheel hub.
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DE19823218850 DE3218850C2 (en) 1982-01-21 1982-05-19 Wheel cover attachment

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US4709967A (en) * 1984-12-14 1987-12-01 Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd. Wheel cap
FR2607447A1 (en) * 1986-11-28 1988-06-03 Renault Vehicules Ind Motor vehicle hubcap
US4943122A (en) * 1989-08-30 1990-07-24 Hashimoto Forming Industry Co., Ltd. Center hub cap for vehicle wheels
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US4709967A (en) * 1984-12-14 1987-12-01 Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd. Wheel cap
FR2607447A1 (en) * 1986-11-28 1988-06-03 Renault Vehicules Ind Motor vehicle hubcap
GB2232128A (en) * 1989-05-22 1990-12-05 Ford Motor Co A wheel cover for a motor vehicle wheel
US4943122A (en) * 1989-08-30 1990-07-24 Hashimoto Forming Industry Co., Ltd. Center hub cap for vehicle wheels

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