Granted Patent B1

US 7,131,705 · App. 10/839,746 · Granted Nov 7, 2006

Abstract

Claims (7)

1. A cover for releasable attachment to a wheel over the hub of an axle, said hub including circumferentially spaced lug bolts protruding through said wheel, and a corresponding plurality of lug nuts turned on said bolts against said wheel to maintain the wheel on said hub, each of said nuts defining a circumferential recess with said wheel, said cover comprising;

a sidewall for covering said wheel; and,

a mounting clip carried by said sidewall, said mounting clip including a pair of opposed arcuate prongs defining a space therebetween terminating in a restricted entryway means into said space for receiving one of said nuts therein,

said cover being mounted and dismounted to said wheel by rotating the cover relative to the wheel to cause a said one nut to pass through said entryway in and out of said space.

2. The cover of claim 1 wherein at least one of said prongs includes a ridge for insertion into said recess about said one nut when the nut is positioned in said space.

3. The cover of claim 2 wherein said mounting clip further includes a resilient camming surface at said entry for frictional engagement with said one nut.

4. The cover of claim 2 and a plurality of said mounting clips corresponding in number and position to each of said bolts, a corresponding ridge on each of said prongs, each said entry oriented in the same tangential direction with said cover being mounted and dismounted from said nuts by rotating said cover relative to said wheel to cause each nut to pass through a corresponding entryway into and out of a corresponding space, and a corresponding ridge of each prong fitted into a corresponding recess about a corresponding nut when the nut is positioned in a corresponding space.

Assignments (14)