SPLASH FLAP, PARTICULARLY FOR TRUCKS
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Abstract
A splash flap, particularly for trucks, of the kind including one or more splash flap parts for mounting internally in a curved mudguard (2), and a splash flap (6)for mounting on a mudguard part (4) depending from a lower rearmost edge part of the mudguard (2). The splash flap parts (6 and 18) include at least one spray reducing and liquid impeding means for decelerating and retaining water sprayed up from the wheels and for counteracting formation of a water mist from the splash flap and conducting retained water down from the splash flap. The splash flap parts (6 and 18) include mutually complementing coupling parts such that the at least one spray reducing and/or decelerating means of respective splash flap parts (6 and 18) is operatively coupled together without visible joints to form a unbroken interacting splash flap surface.
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8. A splash flap, for trucks comprising:
at least one splash flap mounted internally in a curved mudguard, at least one second splash flap mounted on a mudguard extending from a lower rearmost edge of the current mudguard, the splash flaps including at least one of spray reducing and liquid impeding means for decelerating and retaining water sprayed up from wheels and for counteracting formation of a water mist from the at least one splash flaps and for conducting retained water down from the at least one splash flaps, wherein the at least one splash flaps include mutually complementing coupling parts providing operative coupling of the at least one spray reducing and liquid decelerating means of the at least one splash flaps together to form an unbroken interacting splash flap surface. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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