Wheel trim assembly
OwnerEdward G. Spisakinventor
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Abstract
A wheel trim assembly including metal retainers for bitingly engaging the sides of wheel attaching nuts to maintain the wheel trim in position on the wheel in which the metallic retaining members are supported within a plastic hubcap by the resiliency of the retaining members acting to maintain portions thereof slidably disposed in guide holes in the side walls of the cap for engagement with the wheel nuts.
Claims8
An ornamental wheel trim assembly for attachment to a vehicle wheel having an outer face with a plurality of uniformly spaced wheel securing nuts located on a circle concentric with said wheel, said wheel trim assembly comprising:
- a cup-shaped trim member adapted to be disposed axially of the wheel, a retaining member disposed in the cup-shaped member, guide means uniformly spaced in the side walls of the cup-shaped trim member to slidably receive and maintain said retaining member mounted relative to the cup-shaped member, wherein said retaining member is generally U-shaped with a diagonally extending bight portion and a pair of legs extending axially from said bight portion, said legs being disposed adjacent the wall of said cup-shaped member and said bight portion being disposed adjacent the bottom of said cup-shaped member, said retaining member having end portions for engagement with wheel securing nuts to detachably hold the cup-shaped member relative to the wheel.
An ornamental wheel trim assembly for attachment to a motor vehicle wheel having a plurality of uniformly spaced wheel mounting fasteners arranged on a circle coaxial of the wheel axis, comprising;
- a cup-shaped trim member having a bottom and sidewalls, retainer means including a pair of retainer members, each of the retainer members being U-shaped and having a cross member and a pair of legs extending from the cross member and conforming, respectively, to the bottom and diametrically opposite walls of the cup-shaped member, the pair of legs being flexible relative to the cross member and to each other and terminating adjacent the open end of said cup, a retainer element projecting radially from the ends of each of the legs, guide means formed in the walls of the cup-shaped member and slidably receiving the retainer elements to project from the exterior of the cup-shaped member and releaseably engaging the wheel mounting fasteners.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.