Patent ID: 6457780
Filing Date: 2002-10-01
Classification: B05B,B60B

Abstract:
A wheel shield for hand-held placement over the wheel of an automobile when washing the sidewall of a tire on the wheel, said shield including,a concavo-convex generally semi-circular body having an arcuate perimeter, said body of manually flexible construction, a rim projecting from in said perimeter, and said concavo-convex generally semi-circular body defining at least one opening into which a user's  hand or fingers may extend, said rim, upon abutment with the tire sidewall, providing a barrier to shield the wheel of an automobile from matter during washing of the tire sidewall; and said concavo-convex generally semi-circular body is of diminishing cross section in a radial outward direction to provide flexibility of the wheel shield to accommodate automobile wheels of different diameters.