Bamboo tube connection
OwnerAlexander Schmidmeierinventor
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Abstract
A bamboo tube connection includes a first bamboo tube and a second bamboo tube, the first and second bamboo tubes being in butting relationship, possibly at an angle to each other. A longitudinal insert member is fixed in at least the first bamboo tube in an end region thereof. A longitudinal connector at least indirectly releaseable connects the longitudinal insert member to the second bamboo tube. In one embodiment the insert member is so positioned in the longitudinal direction in the first is a bamboo tube so that, when the tubes are connected together, the second bamboo tube is pressed with its peripheral surface against an end face of the insert member.
Claims39
A bamboo tube connection comprising
- a first bamboo tube having an end region,
- a second bamboo tube, the first bamboo tube meeting the second bamboo tube in butting relationship at an angle between the first and second bamboo tubes,
- a longitudinal insert member in the form of a cylindrical portion fixed in the end region of at least the first bamboo tube, and
- a longitudinal connector which releaseably connects the longitudinal insert member of the first bamboo tube to the second bamboo tube,
- wherein the longitudinal insert member is so positioned in the longitudinal direction in the first bamboo tube that when the first and second bamboo tubes are connected together the second bamboo tube has a peripheral surface portion thereof pressed against an end face of the longitudinal insert member, without the insert member contacting an end face of said first bamboo tube wherein the second bamboo tube maintains a spacing relative to the free end face of the first bamboo tube.
An arrangement for making a bamboo tube connection between first and second bamboo tubes which meet with the first bamboo tube in butting relationship at an end region thereof with the second bamboo tube at an angle between the first and second tubes, including
- a longitudinal insert member having an end face and fixed in at least the first bamboo tube in said end region thereof and
- a longitudinal connector having means adapted to at least indirectly releaseable connect the longitudinal insert member of the first bamboo tube to the second bamboo tube,
- wherein in the assembled condition of the arrangement with the bamboo tubes the longitudinal insert member is so positioned in the longitudinal direction in the first bamboo tube that the second bamboo tube has a peripheral surface portion thereof pressed against an end face of the longitudinal insert member without the insert member contacting an end face of said first bamboo tube wherein the second bamboo tube maintains a spacing relative to the free end face of the first bamboo tube.
A bamboo tube connection device, comprising;
- a first bamboo tube structure having an end region;
- a second bamboo tube structure providing in butting relationship at an angle between the first and second bamboo tubes;
- an cylindrical insert means longitudinal fixed in the end region of the first bamboo tube;
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- a connector means longitudinally positioned for releaseable connecting said insert means to said second bamboo tube,
- wherein said insert means is positioned in a longitudinal direction in said first bamboo tube whereby when said first and second bamboo tubes are connected together said second bamboo tube has a peripheral surface portion pressed in an end face of said insert means without said insert means contacting an end face of said first bamboo tube wherein the second bamboo tube maintains a spacing relative to the free end face of the first bamboo tube.
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