Patent ID: 7111909

Claim:
A drum and wheel centering sleeve comprising: a sleeve body having a drum centering portion sized to slide into a selected one of a plurality of circumferentially spaced drum apertures on a drum when the drum is mounted on a hub having a plurality of circumferentially spaced bolts, said sleeve body having a wheel centering portion, said sleeve body terminating in an open first end and an open second end opposite said first end, said sleeve body having internal threads to enable said sleeve body to be threaded on one of said bolts, whereby upon the installation of a set of three of said sleeve bodies on associated of said three of said circumferentially spaced bolts by threading said three sleeve bodies on said three bolts with said drum centering portions in said three drum apertures said drum is centered on said hub and upon placement of a wheel with a plurality of circumferentially spaced wheel apertures on said wheel centering portions said wheel is centered on said hub.