Resilient shield for vehicle wheel brake assemblies
AssigneeEnon Valley Industries, Inc.
InventorEugene L. McElroy
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Abstract
A water and dust shield for protecting the interior of vehicle brake assemblies provides a resilient and flexible flanged disc which is centrally apertured and partially split transversely to provide for its installation on an axle to enclose a rotating brake drum on a wheel carried by the axle. A plurality of arms attached to the shield about the central aperture enable a clamping band to secure the shield to the axle in slightly spaced relation thereto.
Claims6
A resilient non-metallic sheild for vehicle wheel brake assemblies comprising a unitary flexible and resilient plastic disc having a flange on its peripheral edge and a central aperture, means on said disc partially within the aperture for engagement about an axle of a vehicle to which the shield is applied, said means spacing the edge of the disc about the aperture from said axle, said disc having a continuously open slot defined therein on a transverse diameterical line extending partially thereacross so as to permit the same to be distorted and positioned over said axle, said slot extending through said disc peripheral edge on one side of said aperture, along said diameterical line into said central aperture and continuing along said diameterical line a distance beyond said aperture to a terminal point of said slot located between said aperture and said disc peripheral edge on the other side of said aperture, said disc being unitary and unsplit in the area thereof which is located between said terminal point and said disc peripheral edge.
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