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US 2009/0173395 A1Published application
Hose retractor device
OwnerJames Godfrey, Chris Holmaninventors
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Abstract
A hose retractor device including a hose channel mounted on a truck or other vehicle and a pulley movably mounted within the hose channel. A pulley movement device, such as a winch, is connected to the pulley by a winch cable which pulls the pulley into the hose channel towards the winch. An engagement switch engages and disengages the hose retractor device to pull the pulley into the hose channel. The hose extends around the pulley and therefore is pulled into the hose channel for storage thereof.
Claims27
A hose retractor device adapted for mounting on a vehicle, comprising:
- a pulley, a pulley movement means, a hose channel including an open end and pulley movement means end, a cable extending through the hose channel and connected to the pulley movement means at one cable end and removably attached to the pulley at the opposite cable end, and a control switch for the pulley movement means, wherein the pulley is movably mounted within the hose channel permitting retraction and extension of the pulley through the hose channel.
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A method performed with a hose retractor device, the hose retractor device comprising:
- a) a hose channel mounted on a pump-out vehicle, wherein the hose channel includes an open end and a pulley movement means end;
- b) a tank mounted on the vehicle;
- c) a pulley movably mounted within the hose channel;
- d) a pulley movement means;
- e) a cable extending through the hose channel and connected to the pulley movement means at one cable end and removably attached to the pulley at a second cable end;
- f) a control switch for the pulley movement means;
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- g) a pump-out hose including a forward end and an attached end, the attached end attached to the tank and the length of the pump-out hose between the forward end and the attached end is looped through or around the pulley within the hose channel wherein the forward end of the pump-out hose extends out of the open end of the hose channel,
- the method comprising:
- i) switching the control switch to release the pulley movement means;
- ii) pulling on the forward end of the pump-out hose, whereby the pulley engages the pump-out hose, the cable extends toward the open end of the hose channel and the pump-out hose is drawn through and out the open end of the hose channel;
- iii) activating the control switch to engage the pulley movement means, whereby the cable retracts and the pulley moves through the hose channel toward the pulley movement means end and engages the pump-out hose, whereby the length of the pump-out hose between the forward end and the attached end is drawn into and through the hose channel and is deposited onto the base wall of the hose channel;
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- iv) deactivating the control switch when only the forward end of the pump-out hose remains outside of the hose channel.
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A method performed with a hose retractor device, the hose retractor device comprising:
- a) a hose channel mounted on a vehicle, wherein the hose channel includes an open end and a pulley movement means end;
- b) a tank mounted on the vehicle;
- c) a pulley movably mounted within the hose channel;
- d) a pulley movement means;
- e) a cable extending through the hose channel and connected to the pulley movement means at one cable end and removably attached to the pulley at the other cable end;
- f) a control switch for the pulley movement means;
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- g) a pump-out hose including a forward end and an attached end, the attached end attached to the tank and the length of the pump-out hose between the forward end and the attached end is looped through or around the pulley within the hose channel, wherein the forward end of the pump-out hose extends out of the open end of the hose channel,
- the method comprising:
- i) attaching the attached end of the pump-out hose to the tank
- ii) feeding the forward end of the pump-out hose into and through the pulley or to loop around the pulley and thereby engage the pulley in or in close proximity to the open end of the hose channel;
- iii) activating the control switch to engage the pulley movement means, whereby the cable retracts and the pulley moves through the hose channel toward the pulley movement means end and engages the pump-out hose, whereby the length of the pump-out hose between the forward end and the attached end is drawn by contact with the pulley into and through the hose channel and deposited onto the base wall of the hose channel;
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- iv) deactivating the control switch when only the forward end of the pump-out hose remains outside of the hose channel.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.