Apparatus for draining hoses

• US 6,135,139 A
• Filed: 12/23/1999
• Issued: 10/24/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Lloyd G. Blake Jr
• Original Assignee: Lloyd G. Blake Jr
• Inventors: Blake, Lloyd G. Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): CHAMBERS, A MICHAEL
• Application Number:
  US09/466,851
• Time in Patent Office: 306 Days
• Field of Search: 137/355.16, 137/355.26, 137/355.27, 137/355.18, 137/355.19
• US Class Current: 137/355.18
• CPC Class Codes: A62C 33/02 Apparatus for cleaning or drying hoses drying shelves F26B
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2701/332 Flattened hoses
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 75/4402 Guiding arrangements to control paying-out and re-storing of the material guides per se B65H57/00
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 75/4478 relating to handling of fluids
• CPC Class Codes: E03F 7/10 Wheeled apparatus for emptying sewers or cesspools
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/6918 With hose storage or retrieval means
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/6925 With flow regulation responsive to hose movement
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/6929 Reel type
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/6954 Reel with support therefor

Abstract

Two disks (4) attached to a cylindrical bar (3) with the cylindrical bar (3) passing through the center of the disks (4) and perpendicular to the plane of the disks (4) and also having a hollow tube (5) which surrounds the cylindrical bar (3) between the two disks (4) and which rotates freely around the cylindrical bar (3) in such a manner as to allow a flat hose to pass over the cylindrical bar (3) and facilitate the draining of the hose.

Claims

1. An apparatus for draining hoses comprising:

a cylindrical bar;

two disks, wherein said disks are affixed onto said cylindrical bar with said cylindrical bar passing through the center of each disk, said disks being parallel to each other and perpendicular to the cylindrical bar, and possessing means by which each disk is affixed to the cylindrical bar;

a hollow tube, wherein said cylindrical bar passes through the interior of said hollow tube whereby said hollow tube rotates around said cylindrical solid bar, said hollow tube is located between the two disks.

2. A device recited in claim 1 in which the cylindrical bar is a solid cylindrical bar.

3. A device as recited in claim 2 in which the disk is a solid disk.

4. A device as recited in claim 3 in which the disks are four inches in diameter, composed of aluminum, and spaced 91/4 inches apart;

the cylindrical rod is 1 inch in diameter, 30 inches in length, and composed of stainless steel; and

the hollow tube has an inside diameter of 1 1/16 inches, an outside diameter of 11/2 inches, a length of 9 inches, and is composed of bronze.

5. A device as recited in claim 3 in which the disks are 6 inches in diameter, composed of aluminum, and spaced 63/4 inches apart;

the cylindrical rod is 1 inch in diameter, 30 inches in length, and composed of stainless steel, and the hollow tube has an inside diameter of 11/16 inches, an outside diameter of 11/2 inches, a length of 61/2 inches, and is composed of bronze.

6. A device recited in claim 1 in which the disk is a solid disk.

7. A device as recited in claims 1, 2, 3 or 4, in which the cylindrical bar is 30 inches in length.

8. A device as recited in claims 1, 2, 6, or 3 in which the disks are four inches in diameter.

9. A device as recited in claims 1, 2, 6, or 3, in which the disks are spaced 91/4 inches apart.

10. A device as recited in claims 1, 2, 6, or 3, in which the cylindrical bar is composed of stainless steel.

11. A device as recited in claims 1, 2, 6, or 3, in which the disks are composed of aluminum.

12. A device as recited in claims 1, 2, 6, or 3, in which the hollow tube is composed of bronze.

13. A device as recited in claims 1, 2, 6, or 3, in which the hollow tube is 1/4 inches less in length than the spacing between said disks.

14. A device as recited in claims 1, 2, 6, or 3, in which the interior diameter of the hollow tube is 1/16 inch larger than the diameter of the cylindrical rod.

15. A device as recited in claims 1, 2, 6, or 3, in which the cylindrical rod is knurled on the portions of the cylindrical rod that are not between the disks.