The Gates Rubber Company

Bradley A Chaffee

Layne Railsback

James E McDaniel

George E Morse

Dale Traner

Roger Payne

A method of assembling a connection for branched radiator coolant hose in which the hoses to be connected are adhered onto the ends of a T-shaped connector. Then a capsule of rubber is molded around the area of the connection and cured to form a unitary and integral connection.

Encapsulated branch coolant hose

A ground effects device of the type that introduces pressurized air into a plenum chamber, that then travels through a perforated flexible sheet to form an air cushion, the improvement therein that no air dispersion means are present in the plenum chamber.

Air pallet and materials moving system

A T-shaped connector for use in automotive radiator cooling systems, in which each nipple is radially enlarged to form a substantially frusto-conical obverse taper, an apex, and a substantially frusto-conical reverse taper having one or more shouldered steps cut into it. The height of the apex is determined as a function of the elastic properties of the rubber hose to be connected to the coupling, a rubber hose is slid onto and over the radially enlarged portion, and a substantially frusto-conical ring is seated onto that portion of the hose fitting over the reverse taper of the nipple.

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Littleton, CO, United States of America

Bradley A Chaffee