Twin hose coupling

US5201552A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Rasmussen GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Ralf Hohmann · Bruchköbel, DE
• Ralf Spors · Bruchköbel, DE
• Gerhard Winterstein · Bad Vilbel, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 7, 1991
• Grant date: Apr 13, 1993
• Expiry date: Nov 7, 2011

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F28F9/0246
• WIPO field: Mechanical elements
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A device for simultaneously coupling two pipes with two hoses has a discrete tubular connector for each hose, and each connector has flexible arms with pallets which can engage external retainers on the pipes. The connectors are more or less permanently secured to the respective hoses and are separably connected to each other by a flexible holder having C-shaped collars receivable in external grooves of the connectors and one or more flexible webs which connect the collars to each other. The flexible holder compensates for eventual departure of the distance between the pipes from an optimum distance and/or for absence of exact parallelism of the pipes with one another. When a connector is separated from the holder, it can be used as a constituent of a simple hose coupling, namely to connect the end portion of a hose to a nipple, to a pipe or another tubular component.