Patent ID: 7131705
Filing Date: 2006-11-07
Classification: B60B

Abstract:
1. A cover for releasable attachment to a wheel over the hub of an axle, said hub including circumferentially spaced lug bolts protruding through said wheel, and a corresponding plurality of lug nuts turned on said bolts against said wheel to maintain the wheel on said hub, each of said nuts defining a circumferential recess with said wheel, said cover comprising; a sidewall for covering said wheel; and, a mounting clip carried by said sidewall, said mounting clip including a pair of opposed arcuate prongs defining a space therebetween terminating in a restricted entryway means into said space for receiving one of said nuts therein, said cover being mounted and dismounted to said wheel by rotating the cover relative to the wheel to cause a said one nut to pass through said entryway in and out of said space.