Motor vehicle wheel center including an anti-theft feature
AssigneeBBS Kraftfahrzeugtechnik AG
InventorMartin Braungart
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Abstract
An improved motor vehicle wheel center for providing a virtually continuous co-planar visual vehicular wheel design including an anti-theft feature comprising a cover plate that blocks access to the lug bolts of a wheel while sealingly preventing migration of oil and other substances from the center to the exterior thereof and which is held in place by a wedge-shaped, threadedly received central shaft member having a multi-sided faceted configuration which can only be removed in a facilitated manner by engagement and rotation through a specifically shaped conforming tool.
Claims17
An improved motor vehicle wheel center apparatus for attachment to the lug bolts of a vehicle axle and including an anti-theft feature associated therewith, said apparatus comprising:
- a spoke disk member;
- said spoke disk member having a central bore aligned co-axially with respect to the axis of rotation of said wheel;
- a plurality of co-axially positioned passage holes formed about the periphery of said central bore and provided to allow for the aligned passage therethrough of said lug bolts for the fastening of same thereabout by aligned corresponding lug nuts to in turn restrainably affix said spoke disk member to the axle wheel hub of said vehicle;
- a hub cap member;
- said hub cap member consisting of a cover plate having a central aperture and a shaft member passing therethrough;
- said cover plate being operably co-axially maintained in a position interposed between said shaft member and said spoke disk member upon the outer surface of said spoke disk member at a position substantially correspondingly shaped to the innermost surface of said cover plate;
- said shaft member being operably and removably attachable to the central bore of said spoke disk member through hub cap attachment means operably disposed about the periphery of said shaft member;
- said hub cap member being so removably attachable to the outer surface of said spoke disk member to enable said cover plate to cover said lug nuts and bolts;
- theft prevention means operably associated with said hub cap member so as to impede undesired removal of said hub cap member from its position about said spoke disk member and in turn impede unauthorized access to said lug nuts;
- alignment means operably associated with said cover plate and said spoke disk member so as to maintain consistent restrained orientation and prevent relative rotation therebetween, and;
- a plurality of sealing means operably positioned between said hub cap member and said spoke disk member to prevent migration of fluid substances therebetween.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.