Mounting Arrangement For Installing Auxiliary Vehicle Wheels

摘要

A mounting arrangement for adding an auxiliary wheel spaced from an existing wheel of a motor vehicle including two or more generally cylindrical spacers connected together abutting end to end, an inner spacer attached to a brake assembly member with a preexisting wheel rim compressed between an inside face of the inner spacer and the brake assembly member, and an outer spacer connected to the inner spacer by bolts, and holding stud bolts extending out and received through holes in the auxiliary wheel rim, with lug nuts fixing the rim of the auxiliary wheel against the outside end of the outer spacer. An intermediate spacer between the inner and outer spacers may alternatively be provided detachably connecting the inner and outer spacers together, attached to an outside end of the inner spacer and to the inside end of the outer spacer by bolts.

主权项

1. An arrangement for adding an auxiliary wheel comprised of a tire mounted on a wheel rim to an axle of a motor vehicle on which is installed a wheel comprising:
a pair of generally cylindrical spacers detachably connected together in axial alignment with each other, including an inner spacer having a circumferentially arranged series of holes, each receiving one of a set of stud bolts carried by a rotor of a wheel brake assembly of said vehicle, said inner spacer having a shoulder receiving a rim of a wheel of said vehicle installed thereon, said stud bolt holes each counterbored to accept one of a set of stud nuts each threaded onto a respective stud bolt which are advanced on said stud bolts to draw an inside end of said inner spacer into abutment with said wheel rim which is thereby pressed against said brake assembly rotor; an outer spacer detachably connected to said inner spacer in alignment therewith; a set of counterbored holes extending axially into said inside end of said outer spacer aligned with a set of holes formed in a rim of said auxiliary wheel, a set of stud bolt holes inserted into said counterbored holes and through said rim holes, with a set of lug nuts each installed on a respective one of said stud bolts so as to draw said wheel rim against an outer end of said outer spacer, whereby said inner and outer spacers are detachably connected together and with an inner end of said inner spacer fixed to be abutted against said inner end of said rotor of said brake assembly of said vehicle.