Irrigation hose splice
OwnerDaniel W. C. Delmerinventor
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Abstract
An irrigation hose splice and method of making the same that permits used irrigation hose to be reinstalled and retrieved in the same manner as new irrigation hose. The method of splicing includes providing two segments of unjoined irrigation hose. Inserting a heat shield into a first segment to prevent its inner circumferential surface from fusing together when the first hose segment is later fused with a second hose segment. Inserting the first hose segment into the second hose segment, creating an area where the two segments overlap. Appyling heat and compression simultaneously at the overlapping area to fuse together the first and second hose segments, creating an irrigation hose splice which is composed of material from the first hose segment and the second hose segment that have been fused together.
Claims8
An irrigation hose splice, comprising:
- an inner hose segment and an outer hose segment, said inner hose segment located in the outer hose segment to form an overlapping area, the inner segment having a removable, flat, flexible heat shield located therein proximate the overlapping area;
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- a splice located on the overlapping area and extending transversely to the inner and outer hose segments, said hose splice consisting essentially of material from the inner hose segment and the outer hose segment that have been fused together by applying heat and pressure to the overlapping area, the heat shield preventing inner circumferential surfaces of the inner hose segment from being fused together.
An irrigation hose splice which comprises:
- (a) an inner hose segment and an outer hose segment, said inner hose segment having a removable, flat, flexible heat shield located therein proximate an overlapping area and being completely circumscribed by and inserted into the outer hose segment to form the overlapping area;
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- (b) a splice joint, said splice joint being located withing the overlapping area on a repaired irrigation hose, said splice joint being formed by fusing the inner hose segment to the outer hose segment , said heat shield preventing inner circumferential surfaces of the inner segment from being fused together, said splice joint consisting essentially of material from the inner hose segment and the outer hose segment that have been fused together.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.