Variable lug insert for wheel opening
OwnerRick Pruden, Arthur Hale, Jr.inventors
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Abstract
A wheel assembly configured for attachment to a vehicle via a plurality of wheel studs or holes, the wheel assembly including a wheel defining a plurality of wheel openings therethrough, wherein each of the wheel openings has a non-circular shape and is configured to receive a wheel stud or bolt; and a plurality of variable lug inserts, wherein one of the variable lug inserts is within each of the openings and wherein each variable lug insert comprises a body having a longitudinal cross-sectional shape generally corresponding to the non-circular shape of the wheel opening and a variable lug insert opening extending through the body.
Claims15
A wheel assembly configured for attachment to a vehicle via a plurality of wheel studs, the wheel assembly comprising:
- a wheel defining a plurality of wheel openings therethrough, wherein each of the wheel openings has a non-circular shape and is configured to receive a wheel stud;
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- a plurality of variable lug inserts, wherein one of the variable lug inserts is within each of the wheel openings and wherein each variable lug insert comprises a body having a non-circular outermost periphery generally corresponding to the non-circular shape of the wheel opening and a variable lug insert opening extending through the body, wherein each of the variable lug inserts has a tapered section between a first cylindrical section and a second cylindrical section and wherein the second cylindrical section has a roughened surface.
A wheel variable lug insert comprising a body having a first cylindrical section, a second cylindrical section and a tapered section between first cylindrical section and the second cylindrical section, wherein the second cylindrical section has a roughened surface, wherein the body has an opening extending through the body, wherein a center of the opening is offset from a lateral axis bisecting the body, and wherein a longitudinal cross-section of the wheel variable lug insert is generally non-circular.
A set of wheel variable lug inserts configured to be inserted into a wheel opening, each of the wheel variable lug inserts comprising a body having a first cylindrical section, a second cylindrical section and a tapered section between first cylindrical section and the second cylindrical section, wherein the second cylindrical section has a roughened surface, wherein the body has an opening extending through the body and a longitudinal cross-section of the wheel variable lug insert is non-circular, and wherein in a first wheel variable lug insert of the wheel variable lug inserts, a center of the opening is located at a first location along a longitudinal axis of the body, and wherein in a second wheel variable lug insert of the wheel variable lug inserts, a center of the opening is located at a second location along the longitudinal axis different from the first location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.