Hub cap display device

• US 4,388,771 A
• Filed: 04/14/1980
• Issued: 06/21/1983
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/1980
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Louis A. Lalonde
• Original Assignee: Louis A. Lalonde
• Inventors: Lalonde, Louis A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hafer, Robert A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Foycik, Michael J.
• Application Number:
  US06/140,145
• Time in Patent Office: 1,163 Days
• Field of Search: 40/587, 40/493, 301/37 N
• US Class Current: 40/587
• CPC Class Codes: B60B 7/20 having an element mounted for rotation independently of wheel rotation
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 21/045 supported by the wheels

Abstract

A decorative display device for a hub cap of a vehicle wheel is disclosed. The device is sealed which prevents dirt preventing it from rotating and allows minor scrapes without damage. The device has a sealed housing having at least one transparent face adapted for mounting on a hub cap with transparent face directed outwards, a disc within the housing free to rotate therein, the disc having a design or the like visible through the transparent face of the housing, the disc being weighted on one side such that the disc rotates at least when the hub cap is stationary, so that the design or the like is in a constant attitude.

Claims

1. A display device for a hub cap of a vehicle wheel comprising:

a water-proof, permanently and imperviously sealed housing having a circular front wall, a circular back wall, and a peripheral wall joining the front and back walls together, at least the front wall being transparent, and the inner surface of the front wall being parallel to the inner surface of the back wall;

means for mounting the sealed housing on a hub cap with the front wall directed outward;

a circular disc within the housing, the disc having a front surface and a rear surface, and a design or the like on its front surface visible through the front wall of the housing;

means for rotatably mounting the disc within the housing with its front surface parallel to the front wall of the housing and its rear surface parallel to the rear wall of the housing, the mounting means comprising a mounting depression in the center of both the front and rear walls of the housing, the depression in each wall extending inwardly into the wall, but not through, from the inner surface of the wall, and an axle fixed to the center of the disc and projecting into each depression whereby the disc is freely, rotatably mounted between the housing walls in a manner which prevents leakage into the sealed housing; and

a weight in a peripheral portion of the disc between its front and rear surfaces to rotate the disc to a constant attitude when the hub cap stops rotating.