Hose end holder

• US 4,563,789 A
• Filed: 04/19/1984
• Issued: 01/14/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 04/19/1984
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: First Union National Bank Of North Carolina (Wells Fargo & Company)
• Original Assignee: Shop-Vac Corporation (Hangzhou Great Star Industrial Company Limited)
• Inventors: Berfield, Robert C.
• Primary Examiner(s): MOORE, CHRISTOPHER K
• Application Number:
  US06/602,174
• Time in Patent Office: 635 Days
• Field of Search: 15/323, 15/339, 15/410, 24/17 B, 24/20 CW, 24/335, 24/336, 248/75, 248/74.1, 248/52
• US Class Current: 15/323
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/0036 specially adapted for holding the suction hose
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/248 Parts, details or accessories of hoses or pipes nozzles A47L9/02

Abstract

A hose end holder for an appliance, such as a vacuum cleaner. The hose is corrugated. The end of the hose proximal to the housing of the vacuum cleaner is supported on a nipple attached on the vacuum cleaner. A first tube is placed over the proximal end of the hose and on the nipple to secure the proximal end of the hose in place. The periphery of a second tube is held on the periphery of the first tube. The distal end of the hose is held in the second tube. The two tubes are preferably parallel. The hose is a tight fit on the nipple. The hose is further secured on the nipple by the first tube tightly fitting on the outside of the proximal end portion of the hose extending over the nipple. The first tube has a detent therein extending as a secant adjacent the inner circumference thereof and nesting between a pair of corrugations of the hose.

Claims

1. A hose end holder for holding a hose of a vacuum cleaner coiled upon itself, wherein the hose has a proximal end portion and has a distal end;

a nipple;

the proximal end portion of the hose being mounted over the nipple and being fitted thereon;

a tubular member around the exterior of the proximal end portion of the hose and over the nipple for additionally securing the hose on the nipple;

a detent inside the tubular member for engaging the hose inside the the tubular member and for preventing separation of the hose and the tubular member;

the tubular member supporting a further hose support which is integral therewith and which is sized and shaped to surround and receive and retain the distal end of the hose, the further hose support having an axis substantially parallel to the axis of the tubular member and the nipple.

2. The holder of claim 1, wherein the hose is formed of a plurality of corrugations both internally and externally extending circumferentially of the hose.

3. The holder of claim 1, wherein the detent is adjacent the internal circumference of the tubular member.

4. In combination, the holder of claim 1 and a housing having an opening into it;

the nipple extending into the housing opening and being supported there.