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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2012
Marvin Miller, Westminster, CO (US);
Jonathan Clark Swift, Cambridgeshire, GB;
Matthew James King, Parker, CO (US);
Geoffrey Richard Keast, Cambs, GB;
Timothy G. Robinson, Denver, CO (US);
Marvin Miller, Westminster, CO (US);
Jonathan Clark Swift, Cambridgeshire, GB;
Matthew James King, Parker, CO (US);
Geoffrey Richard Keast, Cambs, GB;
Timothy G. Robinson, Denver, CO (US);
The Gates Corporation, Denver, CO (US);
Abstract
A hose end coupling comprising a unitary one-piece stem having an exterior barb end portion and an exterior ferrule interface portion, with a unitary one-piece radially crushable ferrule disposed over the stein, with a crushable socket portion disposed about the barb end portion, a deformable attachment portion disposed about the ferrule interface portion, and a torque communication portion defined between the socket portion and the attachment portion. The socket portion may retain a 'C' shaped insert, one or more coiled inserts, or a plurality of stacked inserts, for gripping a hose end and the socket portion might define a lip, with a seal disposed in the socket portion between the insert(s) and the lip. Some embodiments of a 'C' shaped insert define inner-circumferential teeth and corresponding outer-circumferential depression indentions.