Closure cover of plastic

• US 4,801,040 A
• Filed: 04/21/1988
• Issued: 01/31/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 04/22/1987
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: TRW United CARR GmbH & Company KG
• Original Assignee: TRW United CARR GmbH & Company KG
• Inventors: Kraus, Willibald
• Primary Examiner(s): Hall, George T.
• Application Number:
  US07/184,343
• Time in Patent Office: 285 Days
• Field of Search: 220/307, 220/DIG. 19
• US Class Current: 220/787
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 25/24 Superstructure sub-units with access or drainage openings having movable or removable closures; Sealing means thereforinlet covers for vehicle fuel tanks B60K15/05
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 220/19 Rubber plugs and caps

Abstract

A plastic closure cover 1, especially for the closure of an opening in a motor vehicle body, includes a bottom part 6, a sealing lip 10, and an elastically designed catch ring 12 which lies opposite the lip. Below the catch ring 12 there is at least one support element 13 which strikes against the catch ring 12 in the working position of the closure cover 1. This support element 13 may be designed, for example, in the form of a continuous circumferential elastic lip 15 or, as an alternative, as an interrupted element.

Claims

1. A plastic closure member for insertion into an opening formed in a panel for closing and sealing said opening comprising:

a main body portion having an end wall and a side wall sized and adapted for insertion into the opening in the panel;

a continuous peripheral flexible sealing lip formed integrally with said main body portion and extending radially outwardly to engage said panel about said opening;

a peripheral retaining ring extending radially outwardly of said main body at a location axially spaced from said sealing lip and adapted to engage said panel circumferential about said opening on the side of said panel opposite said sealing lip; and

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at least one support element means spaced from the said retaining ring on the side opposite said sealing lip for striking against said retaining ring to increase the pressing force applied to said panel by said retaining ring.

2. A closure member according to claim 1 wherein the support element means is carried on the side wall adjacent the retaining ring.

3. A closure member according to claim 1 wherein the support element means is designed in the form of a continuous circumferential elastic lip.

4. A closure member according to claim 1 wherein the support element means is in the form of an intermittent elastic lip.

5. A closure member according to claim 1 wherein the support element means is in the form of elastic stays arranged in spaced side-by-side relationship.

6. A closure member according to claim 1 wherein the support element means comprises a plurality of lip members located at a distance from the sealing lip and extending parallel to the side edges of the closure cover.

7. A closure member according to claim 1 including guide ribs extending along the side wall between the sealing lip and the retaining ring.

8. A closure member according to claim 1 wherein the side wall bearing the retaining ring and the support element joins the bottom wall at an angle.

9. A closure member according to claim 1 wherein the retaining ring and the support element means are carried on the side wall at a location between the sealing lip and the end wall.