GB2126538A - Simulated vehicle wheel spinner - Google Patents
Simulated vehicle wheel spinner Download PDFInfo
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- GB2126538A GB2126538A GB08225289A GB8225289A GB2126538A GB 2126538 A GB2126538 A GB 2126538A GB 08225289 A GB08225289 A GB 08225289A GB 8225289 A GB8225289 A GB 8225289A GB 2126538 A GB2126538 A GB 2126538A
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
- B60B—VEHICLE WHEELS; CASTORS; AXLES FOR WHEELS OR CASTORS; INCREASING WHEEL ADHESION
- B60B7/00—Wheel cover discs, rings, or the like, for ornamenting, protecting, venting, or obscuring, wholly or in part, the wheel body, rim, hub, or tyre sidewall, e.g. wheel cover discs, wheel cover discs with cooling fins
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Abstract
A simulated wheel spinner assembly attachable to a hub cap 12 of a motor vehicle wheel comprises a spinner member having a generally bowl-shaped body 2 and a plurality of radially-extending lugs 3 equidistantly spaced about the periphery of said body; and an adaptor member having a discoid portion 4 and a spigot portion 5, said discoid portion being securable to said hub cap and said spigot portion being receivable within a co-acting socket 6 provided centrally on the inside face of the base of said bowl-shaped body 2. The spigot portion 5 may as shown be screw-threadedly engaged with the socket 6, or, e.g. a push fit therein.The discoid portion 4 may as shown be secured to the hub cap 12 by self-tapping screws 13 or may be adhered thereto. The adapter member may be of plastics and the spinner member of metallised plastics or die-cast metal, and a spacer may be interposed between the hub cap 12 and discoid portion 4. <IMAGE>
Description
SPECIFICATION
Vehicle wheel spinner
This invention relates to motor vehicle wheels, and more particularlyto a simulated wheel spinner assembly adapted to be removably attachable to a so-called 'bullet-shaped' or 'domed' hub cap of a motor vehicle wheel.
There is undoubtedly a tendency, in the manufac ture of modern motor vehicles, forthe wheel assemb liesthereofto be fitted with small bullet-shaped or domed hub caps instead oftraditional large, dished, 'knock-on' hub caps. Numerous variations of such domed hub caps are to be found on the various makes of wheel assemblies, but there is a growing body of opinion which condsiders this kind of plain hub cap to be unappealing to the eye.
Also, in recent years, there has been a noticeable trend on the part of a section of the public to 'dress up' the wheels of its motorvehicles by the addition of simulated or dummy wheel spinners. Various kinds of simulated wheel spinners are commercially available atthe presenttime, butvirtually all ofthese are expressly designed to be used in conjunction with a bullet-shaped hub cap purposely made to suit one variety of simulated wheel spinnneronly. In other words, the public was obliged to discard the hub caps normally supplied with the motorvehicle'swheels and replace them with substitute hub caps adapted to acceptwheel spinners of its choice.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to overcome the above and other disadvantages by the provision of a simulated wheel spinnerassembly adapted to be removably attachable to a wide variety of designs of so-called 'bullet-shaped' hub cap of a motor vehicle wheel, the wheel spinner assembly comprising a spinner member having a generally bowl-shaped body and a plurality of radially-extending lugs equidistantly spaced aboutthe periphery of the said body; and an adaptor member having a discoid portion and a spigot portion, the discoid portion being releasably securable to the said hub cap and the spigot portion being fittingly receivable within a co-acting socket provided centrally on the inside face of the base of the said bowl-shaped body.
In orderthatthe reader may obtain a better understanding ofthe present invention, hereinafter is described a preferred embodiment thereof, by way of example only, and with reference to the accompanying drawings in which: Figure lisa top plan view of a simulated wheel spinner assembly according to the present invention;
Figure 2 is a cross-section on line ll-ll of Figure 1;
Figure 3 is a top plan view, a vertical half-section, and sectional view of an adaptor member and associated spacing disc; and
Figure 4 is an isometric exploded view ofthe simulated wheel spinner assembly and a typical bullet-shaped hub cap.
Throughoutthe drawings, like integers are similarly referenced.
Wheel spinner assembly 1 comprises a spinner member2 having a generally bowl-shaped body, best seen in Figures2 and 4, with a plurality (in this embodiment, three) of radially-extending lugs 3 spaced equidistantly aboutthe periphery of body 2; and an adaptor member having a discoid portion 4 and a spigot portion 5. Spigot portion 5 is fittingly receivable within a co-acting socket 6 provided centrally on the inside face 7 ofthe base of body 2.
Ideally, spigot portion 5 is threaded on its external wall 8, the internal wall 9 of socket 6 being correspondingly threaded. Discoid portion 4 is provided with twin screw holes 10 and, adVantageously, the adaptor member may be moulded from a suitable plastics material. Although it is preferred that the adaptor member should bescrewable into the socket of the spinner member, nonetheless other ways of mating them are envisaged such as the spigot being a snug push-fit into the socket, there being perhaps an annular bead about the mouth of the spigot and perhaps a co-acting annular groove in the internal wall of the socket, and mutatis mutandis.
The spinner member itself may be made of a metallised plastics material, or it may be diecast metal, preferably heavily chrome-plated, or, indeed, of any suitable material.
The simulated wheel spinner assembly according to the present invention is adapted to be removably attachable to one of the so-called 'bullet-shaped' hub caps which may be ofvarying diameters, heights and/orcontours as, for example, are to beencoun- tered according to the year, model or make of a motor vehicle, or according to the particularvariery of wheel fitted to the motorvehicle.This may be accomplished by the drilling of holes 11 in the apex region of a typical hub cap 12, and passing the self-tapping screws 13 through holes 10 the discoid portion 4 ofthe adaptor membersoasto bite intothe holes 11 to thus releasably secure the adaptor membertothe bullet shaped hub cap 12.
Having due regard to thewide variety of bulletshaped or domed hub caps presently on the market, an occasional condition might well occur in which it may be necessary, or at leastdesirable,to mountthe adaptor member 'proud' of the convex end of the hub cap 12, and to this end a spacing disc 14may be interposed between discoid portion 4 of the adaptor and the domed end of hub cap 12. This spacing disc 14 has two aligned holes 15 through which screws 13 are adapted to pass in order to affix the adaptor member to hub cap 12, thus 'sandwiching' spacing disc 14 therebetween.
Although the specification has hereinbefore been couched in terms ofthe adaptor member being secured to the bullet-shaped hub cap via screws, as referenced 13, nevertheless this secu rement cou Id be effected by, say, adhering the two integers together.
From the abovegoing it will be readily appreciated that simulated wheel spinners made according to the present invention provide the public with a new or much-improved motor vehicle accessory or, at the very least, offerto it a most useful and very attractive choice.
Claims (7)
1. A simulated wheel spinner assembly adapted to be removably attachable to a so-called 'bullet-shaped' hub cap of a motor vehicle wheel, said wheel spinner assembly comprising a spinner member having a generally bowl-shaped body and a plurality of radially-extending lugs equidistantly spaced about the periphery of said body; and an adaptor member having a discoid portion and a spigot portion, said discoid portion being releasably securable to said hub cap and said spigot portion being fittingly receivable within a co-acting socket provided centrally on the inside face of the base of said bowl-shaped body.
2. The simulated wheel spinner assembly as claimed in Claim 1, wherein said adaptor member has a screw thread on the external wall of the spigot portion thereof, the internal wall of the said socket having a corresponding screw thread thereon.
3. The simulated wheel spinner assembly as claimed in Claim 1 or Claim 2, wherein said adaptor member is moulded from a plastics material.
4. The simulated wheel spinner assembly as claimed in any one of the preceding claims, wherein said spinner member is of a metallised plastics material.
5. The simulated wheel spinner assembly as claimed in any one of the preceding claims, wherein said spinner member is of diecast metal.
6. The simu!ated wheel spinner as claimed in any one of the preceding claims,further including a spacing disc adapted to be positioned between said discoid portion and said hub cap.
7. A simulated wheel spinner assembly, substantially as described herein with referencetothe accompanying drawings.
Priority Applications (1)
| Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| GB08225289A GB2126538A (en) | 1982-09-06 | 1982-09-06 | Simulated vehicle wheel spinner |
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| Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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| GB08225289A GB2126538A (en) | 1982-09-06 | 1982-09-06 | Simulated vehicle wheel spinner |
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| GB2126538A true GB2126538A (en) | 1984-03-28 |
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| GB08225289A Withdrawn GB2126538A (en) | 1982-09-06 | 1982-09-06 | Simulated vehicle wheel spinner |
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Cited By (2)
| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USD297632S (en) | 1985-12-30 | 1988-09-13 | Castrodall Marshall | Wheel ornament |
| US5263770A (en) * | 1991-11-07 | 1993-11-23 | Goudey Robert B | Vehicle wheel cover |
Citations (2)
| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB415681A (en) * | 1934-04-30 | 1934-08-30 | Norman Rycroft | Improvements in spoke covering discs for vehicle wheels |
| US4138160A (en) * | 1977-06-29 | 1979-02-06 | Tru-Spoke, Inc. | Simulated knock off spinner nut and adapter |
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- 1982-09-06 GB GB08225289A patent/GB2126538A/en not_active Withdrawn
Patent Citations (2)
| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB415681A (en) * | 1934-04-30 | 1934-08-30 | Norman Rycroft | Improvements in spoke covering discs for vehicle wheels |
| US4138160A (en) * | 1977-06-29 | 1979-02-06 | Tru-Spoke, Inc. | Simulated knock off spinner nut and adapter |
Cited By (2)
| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USD297632S (en) | 1985-12-30 | 1988-09-13 | Castrodall Marshall | Wheel ornament |
| US5263770A (en) * | 1991-11-07 | 1993-11-23 | Goudey Robert B | Vehicle wheel cover |
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| WAP | Application withdrawn, taken to be withdrawn or refused ** after publication under section 16(1) |