Daimler-benz Ag

Dieter Renz

Bernd Loper

Andreas Langenbeck

Hermann Schobbe

Alf Muller

Stefan Heiliger

A wheel cover for wheels of a passenger motor vehicle which includes a wire ring with outwardly bent lug-shaped members distributed along the circumference thereof, which are adapted to engage in an annular recess in the wheel rim for holding the wheel cover in place; the lug-shaped members are held in radial and axial directions within a guide structure at the wheel cover; each guide structure is provided with an internal radial abutment in such a manner that the wire ring, in the non-mounted condition of the wheel cover, is under prestress; covers elastically connected to the wheel cover are associated with the guide structures on the outside thereof whereby the covers extend over at least a portion of the radially outermost area of each lug-shaped member.

Wheel cover for wheels of a passenger motor vehicle

A wheel cover which includes a mounting comprising several retaining springs detachably arranged at the wheel cover. Each of the retaining springs has a U-shaped configuration and includes a bent-over section with two legs adjoining the bent-over section and resiliently engaging into a channel-like indentation in a rim of a wheel. Each of the retaining springs are pretensionable to a specific predetermined value.

Wheel cover

Wheel covering

A central locking mechanism for web disk wheels having a central guide bushing which is provided with a central receiving bore for accommodating a wheel carrier pin with radial centering of the web disk wheel with respect to the wheel carrier pin and with a central threaded connection between the web disk wheel and the wheel carrier pin by way of a nut which is adapted to be screwed onto the wheel carrier pin. The nut is guided rotatably and axially displaceable with respect to the guide bushing and is captively joined thereto.

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Rechberghausen, Germany

Dieter Renz