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US 4,381,537 AGranted
Illusionary wheel cover structure
OwnerDavid K. Hinrichsinventor
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Abstract
An automotive accessory translucent disk wheel cover overlying a supporting plate non-rotatably mounted upon the axle of an automotive vehicle overlying a supporting plate member having mounted thereon a multiplicity of lamps in circuit individually disposed within recessed portions of said plate member, the lamps being turned on and off in a desired sequence to provide the illusion of movement such as of spokes of a wheel as viewed upon the wheel cover.
Claims5
An illusionary movement wheel cover for an automative vehicle, having in combination
- a translucent wheel cover for an automative vehicle,
- non-rotatable axle supported means carrying said wheel cover,
- said means comprising
- an axle extension,
- a plate member carried by said axle extension having radially disposed channels therein underlying said wheel cover,
- lamps respectfully recessed in said channels,
- a circuit including said lamps,
- switching means and a line to a power source,
- said circuit being arranged and constructed to sequentially turn on and turn off said lamps in a desired sequence, and
- said channels appearing through said cover giving the appearance of a rotatable movement of said wheel cover as said lamps are turned on and turned off.
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An illusionary movement wheel cover of an automative vehicle, having in combination
- a translucent wheel cover member,
- means carrying said wheel cover member being non-rotatably supported,
- means forming an extension of an axle of said vehicle supporting said last mentioned means,
- a plate member underlying said wheel cover having radially disposed channels therein,
- said channels increasing in depth in the direction of the periphery of said plate member,
- lamps being respectively recessed in said channels,
- a circuit including said lamps,
- switching means and a line to a power source included in said circuit,
- said switching means being particularly arranged and constructed to turn on and turn off said lamps in various sequential arrangements, and
- said channels in which lamps have been turned off appearing through said cover by contrast to adjacent lighted channels as if spokes of a wheel giving the appearance of rotatable movement as said lamps are sequentially turned on and turned off.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.