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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 1993
Filed:
May. 08, 1992
WEGU Gummi- und Kunststoffwerke Walter Drabing KG, Kassel, DE;
Abstract
A mudflap for vehicles, whereby said the mudflap has a flat main body (1) with ribs (11), arranged in a V-formation for the intercepting, slowing-down and diverting of water thrown up from the wheel of a vehicle, and channels (24, 26, 29), for guiding water intercepted and diverted in the central area (9) down and away, located in two side areas (10) arranged symmetrically about the central longitudinal plane (8). The ribs are provided in a V-formation inclined downwardly from their apex in the region of the central longitudinal plane (8), and have a cross-section which tapers from the main body (1) to the free end. They are arranged so close to each other that the grooves (14) between the ribs (11) have approximately the same cross-sectional area, admittedly the other way round, as the cross-sectional area of the ribs (11). The channels (24, 26, 29) located in the side areas (10) are open on the sides facing the wheel of the vehicle and have at least two continuous longitudinal ribs (20, 21, 22), whereby the longitudinal rib (20) facing the central longitudinal plane (8) is lower in height than the longitudinal rib (22) facing the longitudinal edge (4 or 5) of the mudflap.