Wheel ornamentation for use with a vehicle wheel
AssigneeBig Rapids Products, Inc.
InventorJeffrey D. Bruce
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Abstract
A wheel ornamentation that can fit vehicle wheels having different offset dimensions. According to one embodiment, the wheel ornamentation is a two-piece wheel cover that includes center and outer components and an adjustable overlapping junction therebetween, where the adjustable overlapping junction may be partially concealed by an annular flange on one of the components. An adhesive portion may be disposed between overlapping axial ends of the components and can be modified during assembly of the ornamentation to a vehicle wheel.
Claims21
A wheel ornamentation for use with a vehicle wheel, comprising:
- an outer component for covering a portion of the vehicle wheel;
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- a center component for covering a portion of the vehicle wheel and having an annular flange portion that bends in a generally radial direction towards the outer component and at least partially conceals an axially adjustable overlapping junction between the center and outer components;
- wherein the axially adjustable overlapping junction is configured so that the wheel ornamentation accommodates vehicle wheels having different axial offset dimensions.
A wheel ornamentation for use with a vehicle wheel, comprising:
- a center component for covering a portion of the vehicle wheel and having an axial end;
- an outer component for covering a portion of the vehicle wheel and having an axial end, the axial ends of the center and outer components overlap each other;
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- an adhesive portion being disposed between the overlapping axial ends, wherein at least one of the center component or the outer component includes a generally radially extending portion in contact with the adhesive portion, and the relative location of the center and outer components and the size of the adhesive portion is configured so that the wheel ornamentation accommodates different vehicle wheels having different axial offset dimensions.
A wheel ornamentation for use with a vehicle wheel having a disk and a rim, comprising:
- an outer component for covering a portion of the rim and having a flange portion;
- a center component for covering a portion of the disk and having an annular flange portion that overlaps the flange portion of the outer component and at least partially conceals an axially adjustable overlapping junction between the center and outer components;
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- an adhesive portion located between the center and outer components at the axially adjustable overlapping junction, wherein the axially adjustable overlapping junction does not include physical contact between the center and outer components and the axially adjustable overlapping junction is configured so that the outer component is closer to the wheel than is the center component at the adjustable overlapping junction and so that the wheel ornamentation accommodates vehicle wheels having different axial offset dimensions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.