VEHICLE WHEELS

**Definition:** This place covers:

Wheels for all kinds of vehicles as cars, trucks, agricultural harvesters, tractors, cranes, locomotives, railcars, motorcycles, bicycles, wheelchairs, hospital beds, medical equipment and for all kinds of carts as perambulators, golf carts, pushcarts, dustbins or similar.

Wheels having specific properties or being of specific form.

Hub caps, wheel covers, wheel decorations, wheel mounted advertising panels.

Wheel hubs including wheel bearings, sealing arrangements, sensors and drive shaft/homokinetic joint arrangements in the case of driving wheels.

Castors for furniture, chairs, hospital beds, medical equipment, suitcases, pallets or similar.

Axles and wheel-axle combinations.

Apparatus for mounting/dismounting wheels, for holding wheels and for assembling/disassembling wheels.

Wheel traction/adhesion increasing means being permanently attached to the wheel or being permanently mounted to the vehicle chassis.

**Limiting references (this place does not cover):** - Making wheels or wheel parts by rolling -> B21H1/00 - Making wheels or wheel parts by forging, hammering or pressing -> B21K1/28 - Tracked vehicles and tracks therefore -> B62D55/00 - Wheel balancing weights -> F16F15/324 - Attachment means for wheel balancing weights -> F16F15/34

**Glossary:** - Castor: One or more small wheels mounted on a carrier that is rotatably mounted to an object about an axis orthogonal to the rolling axis of the wheels, typically used for office chairs. - Hub: The hub does not form part of the wheel or wheel disc but is the wheel carrier the wheel disc is mounted to by the wheel bolts.