Flexible conduit
AssigneeKabel-und Metallwerke Gutehoffnungshutte Aktiengesellschaft
InventorSiegfried Fuhrmann
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Abstract
An outer tube is corrugated helically or annularly and an inner, uncorrugated tube has axially and radially outwardly extending ribs engaging inwardly directed corrugation crests of the outer tube. Part of a fluid flow is diverted into the space between the tubes.
Claims6
Conduit assembly for the conduction of fluids and including an inner and an outer tube, the outer tube being helically or annularly corrugated having alternatingly inwardly and outwardly extending corrugation crest, whereby each corrugation crest on the inside is a corrugation valley on the outside, the improvement comprising:
- the inner tube being flexible and without corrugations, the inner tube having ribs extending in radially outward direction and engaging the inwardly extending corrugation crests of the said outer tube, said ribs running predominantly or exclusively in longitudinally axial direction, thereby extending transversely to said corrugation crest, so that fluid can flow in axial direction along the outside of the inner tube, across the corrugation crests.
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