US1442315A - Retainer and lock for spare wheels - Google Patents

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J. L. WELLER ET AL.

RETA'INER AND LOCK FOR SPARE WHEELS.

Jan. 16, 1923.

FILED OCT. 30, I920.

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JOHN L. WELLER, AND FRANKLIN EARL WINCHESTER, OF RICHMOND, INDIANA.

RETAINER .ANJD LOOK FOR SPARE WHEELS.

Application filed October 80, 1920. Serial N'o. 420,846.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that we, JOHN L. WVELLER and F RANKLIN E. WINCHESTER, citizens of the United States, residing at Richmond,

in the county of Wayne and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Retainer and Look for Spare Wheels, of which the following is a specificati n.

At the present time it is customary to carry a spare wheel on an automobile, such wheel being supported and retained upon a suitable head or support attached to the car. Various devices have heretofore been provided for retaining the wheel in place, and protecting the same against improper removal, but each of such devices, so far as we are aware, has been open to one or more objections. This has been especially true with that type of wheel known as the disk wheel, the web of which 'is comparatively thin sheet metal, so designed and proportioned as to be readily attachable to a hub member which is the driving axle.

Heretofore, disk wheels have been supported upon a head provided with a central rearwardly projecting pin and a plurality of rearwardly projecting bolts, arranged to receive the disk of the spare wheel and also arranged to receive a retaining lock against which the retaining nuts Were screwed. The central projecting pin in this structure is provided with a diametrical perforation adapted to receive the hemp of a padlock, if desired. The objection to such a construction is that the padlock may ,be very readily twisted off or sawn off.

The object of our present invention is, therefore, to provide a locking member which may be readily substituted for the separate retaining and locking devices heretofore used, said device being of such character that it cannot be readily improperly manipulated, injured or detached.

The accompanying drawings illustrate our invention. Fig. 1 is a central vertical section of a disk wheel in place upon the usual carrier and retained by our improved device; Fig. 2 a fragmentary end elevation of the parts shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 a fragmentary vertical section in the same plane as Fig. 1, showing in detail the locking structure; Fig. 4 a line H of Fig. 3.

In the drawings, 10 indicates a suitable suppermanently carried by fragmentary section, on

port conveniently provided with a circular head 11 against which the plate, or web, 12 of the spare wheel will fit. Head 11 is provided with a plurality of properly circumferentially-spaced bolts 13 adapted to pass through the perforations in plate 12, which are provided for its attachment to the hub upon which it is to be secured, said bolts receiving nuts 14. Head 11 is provided at its center with a pin 15 which is diametrically perforated at 16 near its outer end.

The structure thus far described is a common structure, ordinarily provided for the reception and carrying of a spare Wheel. Our improved device consists .of a metal retainer 20, conveniently a casting, having a central perforation at 21 adapted to receive the end of pin 15, the perforation 21 preferably being closed at its outer end so that access cannot be obtained to the end of the pin 15.

Formed in member 20, most conveniently at right angles to the axis of perforation 21, is a lock receiving bore 22 which is counterbored or enlarged, as indicatedat 23, at 8 its inner end, said counter-bore having an axial inner extension 24 leading into bore 21.

Mounted in bore 20 is the main body 25 of a high-grade lock, said main body being provided with an axial extension 26 so formed as to fit and be projectable through bore 24 into perforation 16 of pin 15. A spring 27 normally acts to retract bolt 26 from perforation 16, the extent of axial movement of the main body 25 of the lock being limited by a. retaining screw 28. Main body 25 of the lock carries a laterally-projectable locking pin 29 which may be re tracted within the main body 25 by the action of a rotary key-controlled member 30, of well-known type, controlled by a key 31. Pin 29 is normally urged outwardly by a spring 32, so that when main body 25 is pushed. in to the position indicated in full lines in Fig. 3, pin 29 will be automatically projected into the counter bore 23 and so as to retain bolt 26 in its position projected into perforations 16.

Normally and in unlocked condition, the main body 25 of the lock will occupy the position indicated in dottedlines in Fig. 3. After the spare wheel has been placed upon the carrier 11, our improved retaining device is readily slipped in place, as indicated in Fig. 1, and it is then merely necessary to register bore 24 with perforation 16, whereupon main body 25 may be finger-pressed into locking position.

As indicated in the drawings, the parts are so formed that it is practically impossible for the application of any material turning force through the medium of ordinary wrenches, etc., to the retainer, and, in view of the fact that the retaining member 29 of the lock 25 is entirely protected and concealed. and serves to retain the lock body in locked position even though the screw 28 should be removed, it is apparent that the structure cannot be improperly tampered wit-h.

We claim as our invention:

1. As an article of manufacture, a wheel retainer comprising a main body formed for application to a wheel-support, a locking bolt movably mounted in said main body and provided with an integral portion adapted to be projected into locking engagement with the wheel support and with a retractable member adapted to be projected into locking engagement with the main body.

2. As an article of manufacture, a wheel retainer comprising a main body having a bore formed to receive a pin carried by a wheel support, said main body also having a counter-bored passage communicating with the pin-receiving bore and a locking bolt mounted in said passage and provided with an integral member adapted to be projected laterally into said bore and having a retractable member adapted to be projected into the counter-bore.

raaasia 3. As an article of manufacture, a wheel retainer comprising a main body having a bore formed to receive a pin carried by a wheel support, said main body also having a counter-boredpassage communicating with the pin-receiving bore, and a spring retracted locking bolt mounted in said passage and provided with an integral member adapted to be projected laterally into said bore and having a retracted member adapted to be projected into the counter-bore.

l. As an article of manufacture, a wheel retainer comprising a main body formed for application to a rear support, a locking bolt movably mounted in said main body and provided with a portion adapted to be projected into locking engagemeht with the wheel support and with a retractable member having a normal tendency to move into locking engagement with the main body.

5. As a new article of manufacture, a wheel retainer comprising a main body having a bore formed to receive a pin carried by a wheel support, said main body also having a counter-bored passage communieating with the pin receiving bore, and a locking bolt mounted'in said passageand provided with a member adapted to be projected laterally into said bore and having a retractable member having a normal tendency to move into the counter-bore.

In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands at Richmond, Indiana, this 25th day of October, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and twenty.

, JOHN L. WELLER.

FRANKLIN EARL WINCHESTER.

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