Patent ID: 6142579
Filing Date: 2000-11-07
Classification: B60B,F16B

Abstract:
A corrosion protection cap for clamping onto a polygonal wheel nut, comprising:a cylindrical casing engaging over a polygonal wheel nut;a top wall; and,a spring ring seated in said cylindrical casing having radially inwardly protruding webs with groove profiles, said groove profiles being open toward an axis of said cylindrical casing and of which vertices in each case correspond to corners of a profile of the polygonal wheel nut, with the distance of the vertices from the axis of said cylindrical casing being slightly less than a radial distance of each said corner of the profile of the polygonal wheel nut from the axis of said cylindrical casing, said radially inwardly protruding webs being inclined in a radial direction toward said top wall of said corrosion protection cap.