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US 2018/0335171 A1Published application
Apparatus and method of installing a clamp on a hose substrate
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.
Claims1
A method of installing a clamp, comprising:
- positioning the clamp over a hose, the clamp including a band and a spring liner positioned on an annular inner face of the band, the spring liner comprising, a central, cylindrical contact portion having a flat surface section of smaller circumference than the shoulders of the spring liner when viewed in cross-section, and
- deflecting elastically the spring liner to decrease a gap defined between the annular inner face of the band and the flat surface section of the central, cylindrical contact portion of the spring liner to create a uniform zone of moderate compression in the hose.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.