Arrangement for mounting disk wheels on motor vehicles

• US 4,858,298 A
• Filed: 03/23/1988
• Issued: 08/22/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/1987
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Robert Fleischanderl
• Original Assignee: Robert Fleischanderl
• Inventors: Fleischanderl, Robert
• Primary Examiner(s): Schmidt, Frederick S.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Holmes, David A.
• Application Number:
  US07/171,959
• Time in Patent Office: 517 Days
• Field of Search: 29/273, 29/271, 29/270, 29/267, 403/351, 403/115, 403/122, 411/432, 411/178, 411/222, 411/931, 411/371, 411/372, 411/373, 411/431, 411/374, 411/377, 411/512, 411/907, 411/908, 301/9 DN, 301/36 R
• US Class Current: 29/273
• CPC Class Codes: B60B 29/001 comprising lifting or aligning means B60B29/002 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/53922 Auto wheel with auto chassis

Abstract

This arrangement for mounting disk wheels on motor vehicles has at least one sleeve 1 slippable over a wheel bolt 6, a mounting lever being pivotably attachable at the end of the sleeve 1.

The sleeve 1 has at least one detachable insert 3, whose outer diameter is adapted to the inner diameter of the sleeve 1 and whose inner diameter is adapted to the diameter of the wheel bolt 6 so that the same sleeve can be used for wheel bolts of different diameters. (FIG. 5)

Claims

1. An arrangement for mounting disk wheels on a hub comprising:

(a) at least one substantially cylindrical sleeve, open at both ends, configured, dimensioned and proportioned to fit over a wheel bolt;

(b) a detachable sleeve insert having an outer diameter allowing insertion into said sleeve and an inner diameter sufficient to allow said sleeve insert to fit over said wheel bolt;

(c) a mounting lever pivotally attachable to an open end of said sleeve by means of a constant diameter cam;

(d) a locking means on said cam for preventing disengagement of the mounting lever from the sleeve in any inclined end position of said mounting lever;

(e) an inner nut with interior and exterior threads, said interior threads configured, dimensioned and proportioned to matingly engage with said wheel bolt and said exterior threads of substantially the said outer diameter of said sleeve insert, said inner nut capable of holding an inner wheel in position and allowing said wheel bolt to extend through said inner nut;

(f) a securing nut with an interior thread configured, dimensioned and proportioned to matingly engage the exterior threads of said inner nut and capable of holding an outer wheel in position.

2. An arrangement as set forth in claim 1, comprising within the sleeve a shoulder to contact and support the detachable sleeve insert.

3. An arrangement as set forth in claim 1, wherein the sleeve is conically designed at its free end and has a rim that is retracted at an acute angle to the sleeve axis, rounded towards the inside and forms a thickened bead.

4. An arrangement as set forth in claim 1, wherein the sleeve has an inner surface with a friction-increasing coating.

5. An arrangement as set forth in claim 1, wherein the sleeve has a friction-increasing inner surface.

6. An arrangement as set forth in claim 1, wherein the insert has at least one of inner surfaces and outer surfaces provided with friction-increasing means, such as ribbing, furrows or the like.

7. An arrangement as set forth in claim 6, wherein the insert is made of plastics material.

8. An arrangement as set forth in claim 1, wherein the locking means of the mounting lever is formed by a shoulder projecting from the surface of the constant diameter cam, the shoulder having a side face forming a notch with the surface of the constant diameter cam.

9. An arrangement as set forth in claim 1, comprising a neck portion to connect the constant diameter cam with the mounting lever, the neck portion being conically designed and the smaller diameter of said neck portion following upon the constant diameter cam.

10. An arrangement as set forth in claim 9, wherein the mounting lever has a front face facing the constant diameter cam and said front face is provided with groove means, the groove means verging into the neck portion.

11. An arrangement as set forth in claim 1, wherein the constant diameter cam is defined by the combination of torus faces generated by the rotation of two circles about a common axis, said circles having a common center, radii in the ratio of approximately 3 to 5, and said common axis in the range of about one-third the radius of the smaller circle in distance from the common center.

12. An arrangement as set forth in claim 1, wherein the constant diameter cam is defined by torous faces, wherein said faces are enveloping surfaces of two circles having different radii, but the same center point, the ratio of said different radii being in the range of about 6.375 to 10.625.

13. An arrangement as set forth in claim 1, wherein the mounting lever is curved in a region near its conically expanded end.