Pipe joints or couplings – Having plural independent paths
Patent
1993-08-23
1995-02-14
Nicholson, Eric K.
Pipe joints or couplings
Having plural independent paths
220 232, 211 704, 285238, 248 89, B65D 9000, F26B 906
Patent
active
053888677
ABSTRACT:
For convenience in storing and handling, a garden hose of substantial length is formed of a plurality of sections which can be readily stored and readily assembled into a hose of substantial length. Each section has a female coupler at one end and a male coupler at the opposite end. Most of the couplers in the chain of hose sections are threadless, quick-connect coupler units with a male coupler that clicks into a female coupler. The sections are so short as not to require winding into a coil and so long that only a small number of sections are required to form the hose of substantial length. There are unfolded shorter tube sections and longer sections folded into a U-shape. In use, the female coupler of an end section is connected to the male coupler of a water source and the male coupler of this end section and of each of the other sections is connected to the female coupler of a contiguous section, the male coupler of the section at the opposite end being connected to the female coupler of a nozzle or any water-driven appliance. There is also a container assembly for storing the hose sections including a plurality of hose-section tubes, each for holding a hose section and a cylinder to the inner surface of which the hose-section tubes are secured to form a rigid unit.
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Nicholson Eric K.
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