Hose coupling and hose
AssigneeAll-American Hose LLC
InventorsMark Lockhart, Josef Schomaker, Dennis Zeiber
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Abstract
The hose includes an outer jacket which includes warp and weft fibers made of Vectran®. The process for making the hose, includes: forming an inner liner and coating the exterior thereof with adhesive; weaving, in a twill weave pattern, Vectran® yarn, in a repeating 2-4-2-4-2 pattern in both the warp and the weft directions; extruding polyurethane onto the woven vectran yarn, the polyurethane extending into pillars between the warp and weft yarn, forming an outer liner; inserting the inner liner coated with adhesive within the outer liner; and, pressurizing the inner liner with steam expanding the inner liner and the adhesive into engagement with the Vectran® yarn and polyurethane pillars of the outer liner.
Claims7
1-16. (canceled)
A process for making a hose, comprising the steps of:
- forming an inner liner and coating the exterior thereof with adhesive;
- weaving, in a twill weave pattern, Vectran® yarn;
- extruding polyurethane onto said woven vectran yarn, said polyurethane extending into pillars between the warp and weft yarn, forming an outer liner;
- inserting the inner liner coated with adhesive within the outer liner;
- and,
- pressurizing said inner liner with steam expanding said inner liner and said adhesive into engagement with said vectran yarn and polyurethane pillars of said outer liner.
22-24. (canceled)
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.