Patent ID: 7878599

Claim:
A wheel balancing weight for mounting to a wheel with a flange, the weight formed as a unitary member from a sheet of steel and having a unitary sheet steel body and sheet steel clip such that the sheet steel clip as formed is attached to and coupled with the sheet steel body as formed, the sheet steel body for providing a predetermined mass to the weight and the sheet steel clip for securely grasping the flange to secure the weight thereto, the sheet steel body being formed from an elongate portion of sheet steel folded at least two times in a generally radial direction with respect to the mounted-to wheel such that the sheet steel body includes at least three folded sheet steel layers, each of the at least three folded sheet steel layers of the sheet steel body being generally planar and residing in a respective plane, all of the planes of the folded sheet steel layers being substantially parallel to one another.