Patent ID: 6412365
Filing Date: 2002-07-02
Classification: B62D,Y10T

Abstract:
A leather-wrapped steering wheel provided with a ring portion which is gripped at the time of steering, whereinsaid ring portion includes a core, a covering layer which covers said core and leather which covers said covering layer, said covering layer includes annular grooves in the circumferential direction of the cross section of said ring portion, said leather is constituted such that binding strings are disposed at distal edges of said leather along the surface circumferential direction of said ring portion and said distal edges are fitted into said annular grooves so as to cover said covering layer, said binding strings are disposed at said distal edges of said leather, said binding strings are restricted from moving along the surface circumferential direction of said ring portion, and said binding strings are made to pass through the distal edges of said leather such that said binding strings are movable along said annular grooves, and said distal edges of said leather are disposed in said annular grooves together with said binding strings and are fitted into said annular grooves by pulling and tying both ends of said binding strings to each other.