Joint, especially a ball-and-socket joint, for chassis parts in a motor vehicle

A ball-and-socket joint for chassis parts in a motor vehicle, the joint comprising:

• a joint housing;
• a joint shell arranged in said housing;
• a ball with a pivot pin protruding from said joint housing a rubber bellows with a protective cap, said pivot pin being surrounded by said rubber bellows;
• and
• a ring for holding the protective cap connected to the edge area of the rubber bellows concentrically surrounding the pivot pin, wherein said ring is vulcanized into an edge area of said rubber bellows and has a plurality of projections on a side facing away from said ball-and-socket joint, said projections extending through openings of identical cross-sectional configuration of said protective cap, said openings being prepared in advance and connecting said ring to said protective cap by mechanical or thermal deformation after passing through said protective cap.

A ball-and-socket joint for chassis parts in a motor vehicle, comprising:

• a joint housing;
• a joint shell arranged in said housing;
• a ball with a pivot pin protruding from said joint housing a rubber bellows;
• a protective cap, said pivot pin being surrounded by said rubber bellows;
• a ring for holding the protective cap, said ring being connected to an edge area of said rubber bellows that concentrically surrounds said pivot pin, said ring having an annular outer side having at least one bead and being vulcanized into said edge area of said rubber bellows, said protective cap having an inner side with a plurality of projections, said projections being bent by a tool having access through openings in said protective cap from an outside against a bead of said ring with said projections dug into the ring at the edge area of the bellows to connect the protective cap to the bellows in a positive-locking manner or in a non-positive manner and in a positive-locking manner.