International Harvester Company

Carcoustics Tech Center Gmbh

Albert Kallenberg

Christian Gnädig

Herbert Moeselaken

Manfred Schnippering

Hans Rudolf Czerny

Herbert Vollmert

Karl-Heinz Luck

The invention relates to an acoustically effective wheel house covering for vehicles, i.e. a wheel house covering which can reduce transmission of splash water noises in the passenger compartment of the vehicle and which can absorb the sound of rolling tires on a roadway, which wheel house covering comprises several layers of material. In order to improve the sound-absorbing effect of such wheel house coverings, it is proposed that the wheel house covering is formed of at least three air-permeable sandwiched layers of material () comprising a first textile material layer () facing the wheel housing, with the air permeability of said first textile material layer at a test pressure of 1 mbar ranging from 15 to 60 l/ms, and with the air permeability of a second textile material layer () arranged between the first () and third () material layers at a test pressure of 1 mbar ranging from 100 to 1500 l/ms, wherein the third material layer () is a textile material layer facing the tire, with the air permeability of said third material layer at a test pressure of 1 mbar ranging from 20 to 200 l/ms.

Acoustically effective wheel house covering for vehicles

Device to seal slot-shaped openings provided for the passing-through of operating levers which are supported in a pivoting manner on one plane and are either actuated by hand or by foot and which features sealing elements, one of them assigned to each opening.

Control lever seal

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Hürth, Germany

Albert Kallenberg