Hose clamp with flat spring liner
AssigneeIdeal Clamp Products, Inc.
InventorBruce D. Bowater
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Abstract
An improved hose clamp having an annular band having an inner face, tensioning means, and an annular spring liner; the spring liner having a circumferential shoulder near an edge of the liner; and a central, cylindrical, flat, contact portion of smaller circumference than the shoulder, and of smaller width than the inner face of the band. The shoulder is adapted to abut the inner face and the contact portion is adapted to contact a hose or other article to be clamped.
Claims19
An annular spring liner, for a hose clamp having an inner face, comprising:
- a circumferential shoulder near an edge of said liner;
- and
- a central, cylindrical, flat, contact portion of smaller circumference than said shoulder;
- wherein said shoulder is adapted to abut said inner face.
A hose clamp having an inner face and an annular spring liner, said liner comprising:
- a circumferential shoulder near an edge of said liner;
- and
- a central, cylindrical, flat, contact portion of smaller circumference than said shoulder;
- wherein said shoulder is adapted to abut said inner face.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.