Vehicle wheel covers

Claim 1

For a vehicle wheel mounted on an axle hub having a plurality of lug bolts which pass through openings in the wheel and secured by ramped lug nuts threaded onto the ends of said lug bolts, the ramp portion of said ramped lug nuts each having an inner ramped end normally seated within a recess of said wheel in a non-interference fit and a free outer ramped end, the improvement in mounting a wheel accessory which includes: a mounting means having formed therein a first set of apertures slightly undersized with respect to the maximum outer diameter of said ramped lug nuts and a second set of apertures oversized with respect to said maximum outer diameter of said ramped lug nuts, the combined first and second sets of apertures being arranged in a pattern matching the pattern of said plurality of lug bolts with said first set of undersized apertures having a diameter sufficiently large to permit full seating of inner ramped ends of said ramped lug nuts securing said vehicle wheel in a non-interference fit, and said second set of oversized apertures fitting loosely around said ramped lug nuts and permitting also non-interference seating of said inner ramped ends of said ramped lug nuts; and a plurality of resilient washers each having a normal unexpanded inner diameter undersized with respect to said maximum outer diameter of said ramped lug nuts but of sufficiently large inner diameter to allow normal seating of said inner ramped ends of said ramped lug nuts in said wheel recesses, each of said resilient washers engaging only each of the said free outer ramped ends of those of said ramped lug nuts which are surrounded by said undersized apertures, to permit a non-interference fit with said inner ramped ends of said ramped lug nuts when said ramped lug nuts are torqued into normal seating engagement with said wheel, said resilient washers being thereby urged against said mounting to secure said mounting means to said vehicle wheel.