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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 1988
Filed:
Jan. 13, 1987
Applicant:
Inventors:
Hans-Heinrich Welschof, Rodenbach, DE;
Rudolf Beier, Offenbach am Main, DE;
Assignee:
Lohr & Bromkamp GmbH, Offenbach am Main, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
3011 / ; 180258 ; 464178 ; 464906 ; 384445 ; 384543 ; 384589 ;
Abstract
In a wheel assembly for a vehicle wheel, a supportive sleeve is provided mounted in rotatably fixed engagement with a hub of the wheel assembly with one side of a protective boot for the universal joint being attached thereto. The supportive sleeve is constructed as a shaped sheet metal part shaped which, during installation, is permanently plastically deformed in press-fitted engagement with a groove in the hub of the wheel assembly and is formed with a radially extending annular region which is pressed into abutting engagement with an inner bearing ring of the wheel bearing assembly.