US 12,434,505 B2
Motor-vehicle wheel-rim protector
Faruk Altinsoy, Meerbusch (DE)
Assigned to Livio Stella, Ratingen (DE); and Carsten Schaffarz, Neukirchen (DE)
Appl. No. 18/009,378
Filed by Livio Stella, Ratingen (DE); Carsten Schaffarz, Neukirchen-Vluyn (DE); and Faruk Altinsoy, Meerbusch (DE)
PCT Filed Sep. 2, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/074411
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 20, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/048735, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 10, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0219365 A1, Jul. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. B60B 7/01 (2006.01); B60B 7/02 (2006.01); B60B 7/06 (2006.01); B60B 7/14 (2006.01)
CPC B60B 7/01 (2013.01) [B60B 7/02 (2013.01); B60B 7/063 (2013.01); B60B 7/14 (2013.01); B60B 2360/10 (2013.01); B60B 2360/36 (2013.01); B60B 2900/212 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A shield for covering an outer edge of a flange of a rim of a motor-vehicle wheel, the shield 2 comprising:
a ring having a diameter matched to that of the flange, and
a circumferential lip of the ring engaged between an inner surface of the flange and an outer side wall of a tire and securing the shield to the flange, wherein
the ring is made of a hard material and has a throughgoing radial slot defined between a pair of end faces each formed with a blind bore, the bores being provided with internal screwthreads of opposite hand, and
a clamping screw extends across the slot between the end faces of the ring and has opposite ends formed with external screwthreads seated in the blind bores of the ring, whereby rotation of the screw moves the end faces toward or away from each other depending on rotation direction.