Method of covering a wheel for decoration, streamlining, or advertising display, and a flexible wheel cover therefor
AssigneeMoochout LLC
InventorJonathan E Fleck
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AssigneeMoochout LLC
InventorJonathan E Fleck
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A method and apparatus (10) is disclosed for covering a cavity (11) of a wheel of a long-haul tractor-trailer, truck or the like for decoration, streamlining, and/or advertising display. Such wheels have a face, a rim, the interior of the rim defining the cavity, a boss (30) on the rim having a relatively smaller diameter and spaced from the face. The disclosed method includes providing a device (10) comprising a generally flat cover portion sized to cover the outwardly facing opening of the wheel cavity, an opening through the device, and a releasable fastener (15) for selectively closing the opening through the device, and an attachment system (12) that is sized to extend axially across the boss of the wheel to the covered, accessing the attachment system through the opening, positioning the attachment system over the boss of the wheel by way of the opening, and closing the opening, such that the cover portion closes substantially all the outwardly facing opening of the wheel.
A method for covering a wheel cavity of a wheel of a vehicle, the wheel having a face, a rim having a rim interior defining the wheel cavity, and a drop center on the rim having a drop center diameter less than a diameter of the wheel;
A device for covering an axially-outwardly facing cavity of a wheel of a motor vehicle, the device compriing:
A device for covering for the cavity of a wheel of a vehicle, the device comprising:
A device to cover and streamline a wheel of a vehicle, the wheel including a rim for mounting a tire, a wheel face adjacent an inner portion of the rim, and an outer portion of the rim, the wheel face and an inner surface of the wheel defining an open outward facing cavity, the inner surface of the wheel including a boss having an inner diameter less than a first rim diameter at the inner portion of the rim between the face and the boss, the rim also including a tapered portion which tapers inwardly towards a center of the wheel from the outer portion of the rim towards the boss, the device comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.