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US 5,884,981 AGranted
Wheel cover for a car and a clip device
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho
InventorTakashi Ichikawa
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Abstract
A clip including a first clip having a sandwiching portion which is installed on a rim flange edge of a disc wheel; and a second clip having a receiving surface for fixing a wheel cover body thereto. The first and second clips are angle-adjustably connected with each other.
Claims4
A clip device for connecting a wheel cover to a disc wheel for a car, comprising
- a first clip member having a sandwiching portion for fixedly sandwiching a rim flange edge of the disc wheel,
- a second clip member having a connection surface for connecting to a wheel cover body, and
- connection means for angle-adjustably connecting the first and second clip members to each other, wherein the connection means comprises a supporting portion formed on one of the first and second clip members and a sandwiching member formed on the other of the first and second clip members, the sandwiching member being designed so as to angle-adjustably sandwich the supporting portion.
A wheel cover for use in a car comprising,
- a disc-like wheel cover body,
- a plurality of clip devices securable to a disc wheel, and
- a plurality of fixtures for connecting the wheel cover body to the clip devices,
- each clip device comprising a first clip member having a sandwiching portion which fixedly sandwiches a rim flange edge of the disc wheel, a second clip member having a connection surface which is connected with each of the fixtures, and connection means for angle-adjustably connecting the first and second clip member to each other, wherein the connection means comprises a supporting portion formed on one of the first and second clip members and a sandwiching member formed on the other of the first and second clip members, the sandwiching member being designed so as to angle-adjustably sandwich the supporting portion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.