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US 4,251,038 AGranted
Hose reel
AssigneePopeil Brothers, Inc.
InventorJohn L. Gename
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Abstract
A hose reel is shown having a body portion with two sides which define a reel pocket therebetween. At one end a hand grip is provided, and at the remote end a pair of opposed rollers are located which serve to guide the hose and strip the hose. A crank having a crank axle lockingly secures a hose reel in the reel pocket. The reel itself has a central hub which is engaged by a spline on the crank handle. Radiating from the hub is a spider-like assembly which engages one end of the hose fitting and causes a flat type hose to assume a circular configuration when the reel is full.
Claims27
A hose reel comprising, in combination,
- a body having two elongate sides defining an uninterrupted top opening reel pocket laterally therebetween,
- a reel having two opposed parallel side plates spaced to nestingly receive a single width of hose and a central hub,
- a crank,
- means for securing the crank from a position adjacent one body side into the reel hub thereby securing the reel in the body reel pocket,
- a hand grip portion at one end of the body closing one end portion of the reel pocket,
- hose guide means at the end of the body remote from the hand grip and closing the other end portion of the reel pocket with a crank securing means therebetween,
- said hand grip, crank securing means, and hose guide means being all along a substantially straight line,
- the axis of grasp of the hand grip being substantially perpendicular to said straight line,
- said hose guide means including further means for disengaging for unwinding and re-engaging the same for rewinding the hose and expressing fluid therefrom,
- whereby a hose may be wound around the reel hub and guided by the guide means, and readily unwound by pulling the same along an axis the tension force of which is substantially coaxial with the axis of the hand grip, crank securing means, and the hose guide means.
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A hose reel comprising, in combination,
- a body having two sides defining a reel area therebetween,
- a reel having two opposed sides and a central hub,
- slot means in only one body side for securing the hose reel between the two side portions of the body,
- slot engaging means on one hub side proportioned to insure properly oriented insertion of the reel into the body slot means,
- crank means for rotating the hose reel, while secured within the body and the reel hub,
- means for guiding a hose to be wound upon the hose reel comprising a pair of opposed members both in frictional engagement with a hose wound on the reel,
- whereby upon rotating the crank while a hose is threaded interiorly of the hose reel, the means for guiding will permit the hose to be wound interiorly of the reel, and at the same time strip the hose of retained water and minimizing its size for storage.
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A hose reel comprising, in combination,
- a body having two sides defining an uninterrupted top opening reel pocket therebetween,
- a reel having two opposed sides spaced to receive a single width of hose and a central hub,
- an open ended fitting crotch adjacent the central hub to removably receive and secure one end fitting of the hose,
- a crank removably secured to the hub of the hose reel for rotating the same,
- a hand grip portion at one end of the body,
- hose guide and stripper means at the end of the body remote from the hand grip with the crank and hub oriented therebetween,
- whereby a user may hold the body by the grip portion and rotate the crank to wind a hose on the reel and then utilize the assemblage for storing the hose.
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A hose reel comprising, in combination,
- a body having two sides defining a reel pocket therebetween having a reel hub guide slot in one of said sides,
- a reel having two opposed sides and a central hub with an extension at one end of the hub portion for insertion into the body side reel hub guide slot,
- a crank,
- means for securing the crank from a position adjacent one body side into the reel hub thereby securing the reel in the body reel pocket,
- a hand grip portion on the body,
- hose guide means on the body adjacent the reel,
- whereby a hose may be wound around the reel hub and guided by the guide means.
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A hose reel comprising, in combination,
- a body having two elongate sides defining an uninterrupted top opening reel pocket laterally therebetween,
- a reel having two opposed parallel side plates and a central hub,
- a crank,
- means for securing the crank from a position adjacent one body side into the reel hub thereby securing the reel in the body reel pocket,
- a vertically aligned hand grip portion at one end of the body closing one end portion of the reel pocket,
- hose guide means comprising upper and lower rollers at the end of the body remote from the hand grip and closing the other end portion of the reel pocket with said means for securing the crank positioned therebetween,
- said hand grip, crank securing means, and hose guide means being all along a substantially straight line with the grasp axis of the hand grip perpendicular to said straight line,
- said hose guide means including further means for retracting the upper roller for unwinding and removably securing the same in opposed squeezing relationship to the lower roller for rewinding the hose and expressing fluid therefrom,
- whereby a hose may be wound around the reel hub and guided by the guide means, and readily unwound by releasing the upper roller and pulling the same along an axis the tension force of which is substantially coaxial with the axis of the hand grip, crank securing means, and the hose guide.
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A hose reel comprising, a combination,
- a reel having two opposed sides and a center reel hub with a crank receiving aperture,
- a reel housing for receiving said reel,
- said housing having opposed side walls of an essentially isosceles triangular configuration with uninterrupted top and bottom openings defined by said side walls to facilitate the ready placement in and removal of said reel into and out of said housing,
- the base of said isosceles triangle forming hand grip means,
- said hand grip means being aligned vertically substantially perpendicular to the median of said isosceles triangular sides,
- the apex of said triangle forming hose guide means,
- a mid portion of said triangle having a crank receiving opening,
- said reel hub having an extension projecting from one end thereof,
- one of said opposed side walls having a U-shaped reel hub extension receiving slot formed on an interior face thereof substantially centrally thereof so that said extension rotatably cradles within said slot and so that said reel is removed from said housing through said open top by lifting said reel and extension from said slot,
- crank means for inserting in the crank receiving aperture causing said reel to rotate within said housing.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.