Vehicle road wheel mounting
AssigneesArthur Knowles, Robert J. Knowles, Jean Tonks
InventorArthur Knowles
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Abstract
A vehicle road wheel mounting arrangement including a wheel hub with a shoulder against which a wheel center can be secured by a plurality of screwthreaded studs and nuts and, so that the vehicle wheel cannot be stolen even if all the nuts are removed from the screwthreaded studs, the hub having a groove containing a retainer ring and structure for urging the retainer ring radially outwards to make captive the wheel center on the hub.
Claims5
A vehicle road wheel mounting arrangement including a wheel hub with a shoulder against which a wheel center can be secured by a plurality of screwthreaded studs and nuts, the hub being provided with a circumferential groove containing a retainer ring and with means for urging the retainer ring radially outwards to make captive a wheel center positioned on the hub in which the means for urging the retainer ring radially outwards are constituted by a plurality of circumferentially spaced pegs provided with sloping ramp surfaces by which the retainer ring is urged radially outwards as the pegs are fully inserted into cavities in which they are located.
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