The Gates Rubber Company

Mark A Newberry

Donald J McPhee

Dennis C Kemper

A safety hose having a stretchable elastomeric tube and cover that sandwich a twined reinforcement that exhibits a circumferential reinforcement component and a weaker longitudinal reinforcement component that breaks when the hose is stretched.

Safety hose

A flexible preferably tubular article is described having an outer abrasion-resistant protective sleeve which is cured-in-place on a flexible core or tube to form a unitary flexible composite.

Method for making a reinforced tubular article

A curved hose molding device which includes a curved mandrel with a fixed collar near one end and a removable elastomeric collar near the opposite end, the collars defining means for molding the ends of a hose carcass a desirable length apart.

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Lakewood, CO, United States of America

Mark A Newberry