Automotive vehicle wheel spray collector
AssigneesPhilip A. Stewart, Roy J. Moyer, James T. Nicholson, J. Thomas Schneider
InventorsFrederick D. Roberts, Myrle A. Roberts, heiress
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Abstract
Sectional spray collector arched shields are mounted above a vehicle wheel and extend around approximately one-eighth to one-half of the vehicle wheel circumference. Each shield includes adjacent, downwardly flaring collector channels running circumferentially of shield. The collector channels have apertures in their crests and the aperture marginal portions are formed by flanges to divert the spray into troughs between adjacent collector channels. Water from the troughs is collected in runoff gutters inclined inboard to dump the drainage water beneath the vehicle.
Claims16
In a vehicle wheel spray collector shield including an arch having a spray-collecting channel on the concave side of such arch flaring away from the crest of such channel, such channel having a slot in its crest with the length of such slot extending generally circumferentially of the arch, and backing means overlying the convex side of such arch, the improvement comprising a spray-diverting flange extending inward from a side of the channel, the edge of said flange forming a side of the slot.
In a vehicle wheel spray collector shield including an arch having a spray-collecting channel on the concave side of such arch flaring away from the crest of such channel, such channel having a slot in its crest with the length of such slot extending generally circumferentially of the arch, and backing means overlying the convex side of such arch, the improvement comprising the slot having a margin formed by the portion of the convex side of the arch alongside the slot which arch portion extends generally parallel to the width of the slot.
In a vehicle wheel spray collector shield including an arch having a spray collecting channel on the concave side of such arch flaring away from the crest of such channel, such channel having a slot in its crest with the length of such slot extending generally circumferentially of the arch, and backing means overlying the convex side of such arch, the improvement comprising a spray-diverting flange having an edge forming a side of the slot which edge is disposed in a plane generally perpendicular to the width of the slot.
In a vehicle wheel spray collector shield including an arch having a spray-collecting channel on the concave side of such arch flaring away from the crest of such channel, such channel having a slot in its crest with the length of such slot extending generally circumferentially of the arch and an edge of such slot disposed in a plane, and backing means overlying the convex side of such arch, the improvement comprising the slot having a margin formed by the convex side of the arch alongside the slot which margin is generally perpendicular to the slot edge plane.
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