US 5,201,552 A · Twin hose coupling

Abstract

A device for simultaneously coupling two pipes with two hoses has a discrete tubular connector for each hose, and each connector has flexible arms with pallets which can engage external retainers on the pipes. The connectors are more or less permanently secured to the respective hoses and are separably connected to each other by a flexible holder having C-shaped collars receivable in external grooves of the connectors and one or more flexible webs which connect the collars to each other. The flexible holder compensates for eventual departure of the distance between the pipes from an optimum distance and/or for absence of exact parallelism of the pipes with one another. When a connector is separated from the holder, it can be used as a constituent of a simple hose coupling, namely to connect the end portion of a hose to a nipple, to a pipe or another tubular component.

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Dependent claims

A device for separably coupling terminal portions of a first set of two tubular components with terminal portions of a second set of two tubular components, one for each component of the first set, comprising tubular connectors, one for each component of the first set and the respective component of the second set;

and a flexible holder for said connectors, said holder and said connectors having means for separably securing said holder to at least one of said connectors, said holder comprising a discrete collar for each of said connectors and each of said collars extending along an arc of at least 180.degree., said holder further comprising two flexible uniting members connecting said collars to each other.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Twin hose coupling

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Twin hose coupling

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Abstract

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