Patent ID: 6964549

Claim:
A decorative fastener covering assembly useful in mounting a license plate convolved by internal stresses in the course of stamping to the body of a motor vehicle and attenuating the vibrations thereof caused by the elastic deformations of the surface convolutions of the plate, comprising: a threaded fastener defined by a head and a threaded shank; a resilient adapter defined by an annular surface and a tubular skirt extending orthogonally from the periphery of said surface on first side of said surface, said annular surface being dimensioned to receive said shank through the annulus thereof, said skirt being dimensioned to surround said head of said fastener and said skirt further including a radially projecting rounded peripheral bead formed on the free edge of said skirt; a domed cap including a tubular segment having a distal exial edge conformed to receive said adapter in the interior thereof, said cap including on the interior of said tubular segment a conforming recess for receiving said peripheral bead with the elastic extensions of said skirt, the axial dimension of the skirt between said peripheral bead and said annular surface is slightly less than the axial dimension of the tubular segment between said recess and said edge, whereby said edge effects a resilient compressive engagement of said license plate enhanced by the deflection of said license plate along said recess toward said domed cap.