Aquatic vacuum hose swivel cuff

• US 4,747,621 A
• Filed: 11/19/1986
• Issued: 05/31/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 11/19/1986
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Plastic Specialties And Technologies, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Action Technologies LLC (General Patent Corporation)
• Inventors: Presinzano, Ronald, Gans, Leo
• Primary Examiner(s): Arola, Dave W.
• Application Number:
  US06/932,726
• Time in Patent Office: 559 Days
• Field of Search: 285/7, 285/275, 285/280, 285/903, 285/921, 285/423
• US Class Current: 285/7
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 25/0045 of the quick-acting type
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 37/084 combined with automatic locking
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 285/903 Corrugated
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 285/921 Snap-fit

Abstract

An aquatic vacuum hose swivel cuff coupling comprises, in combination, a blow-molded vacuum hose and a molded swivel cuff. The hose includes one end which terminates as a corrugated end portion having circumferential grooves therein. The swivel cuff component has a seating portion for receiving the corrugated end portion of the hose and at least one annular ring adapted to fit within the circumferential grooves of the hose, the annular ring being provided about the hose entrance to the seating portion of the cuff. The corrugated end portion of the hose is maintained within the seating portion of the cuff by the annular ring being disposed within the circumferential grooves whereby the hose may be swivelably rotated within the cuff. The corrugated end portion of the hose is extruded with the continuous extrusion blow-molded hose thereby eliminating the need to weld components such as seals.

Claims

1. A hose and swivel cuff, comprising, in combination:

a flexible blow-molded hose having substantially uniform circumferential grooves and convolutions throughout the length thereof;

a one-piece molded cuff which has a seating portion for receiving and adapted to coupled with an end portion of said hose, regardless of the point at which the hose is cut, and at least one rigid annular ring adapted to fit within one of said circumferentail grooves of said hose, said at least one annular ring being provided about the hose entrance to said seating portion of said cuff;

wherein the inner diameter of said at least one annular ring is less than the outer diameter of said circumferential convolutions of said hose, the end portion of said hose is maintained within said seating portion by said at least one annular ring being engaged within one of said circumferential grooves such that said hose end is locked in the longitudinal direction within said cuff, and said hose portion is swivelably rotatable within said cuff, and water may seep around the outer circumference of said end portion and into said cuff.

2. The hose and swivel cuff combination of claim 1 wherein said cuff includes a second annular ring spaced a distance from said first annular ring, the area between said first and second annular ring retaining at least one corrugation of said hose end portion.

3. The hose and swivel cuff combination of claim 2, wherein said first annular ring is an interrupted ring.