Pipes and tubular conduits – Flexible – With means for facilitating collapse
Patent
1998-05-22
1999-12-07
Hook, James F.
Pipes and tubular conduits
Flexible
With means for facilitating collapse
138120, 138155, 138172, 138DIG8, F16L 1100
Patent
active
059966408
ABSTRACT:
A DIY flexible pipe with rigidity comprising a screw typed inner spring sheet, a screw typed outer spring member, a plurality of spring strips, a soft sleeve and many smaller sleeves; wherein, each layer (thread) of the inner spring sheet is provided with many engaging holes for insertion therein the spring strips having engaging teeth, the spring strips string multiple layers of the inner spring sheet, each spring strip in the layers of the inner spring sheet can also be strung up with many smaller sleeves, the inner spring sheet is slipped over with the outer spring member, and the soft sleeve is slipped over the outer spring member; thereby, a user can press to and fro on the pipe gradually as he likes to make a three-dimensional pipe having the curvatures desired, the spring strips, outer spring member and inner spring sheet in the areas bended are engaged with one another to construct a state which is provided with rigidity for bearing loading, or are mutually released to render the pipe to obtain flexibility in favor of adjustment and control in bending to form a shape, the pipe thus obtains an object of bending it in a simple and easy way and making it with fixed three-dimensional bending curvatures. Such pipe can afford making of bending pipe handicrafts or be used as a supporting pipe on a spine correction device.
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