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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2013
Schauenburg Hose Technology Gmbh, Muelheim An der Rhu, DE;
Martin E Forrester, Trenton, CA;
Schauenburg Hose Technology GMBH, Muelheim An Der Rhu, DE;
Abstract
A flexible, stretchable, crush resistant hose particularly well suited for supplying breathing gases to patients in medical applications and the like has a helix defined by reinforcing coils of thermoplastic material, and a web of thermoplastic material bonded or welded to adjacent ones of the coils, preferably near outer diameter portions of the coils. The web extends radially inwardly between the adjacent pairs of the reinforcing coils to define a helical reverse-direction crease that can be located closer to or farther from a centerline of the hose than is the inner diameter of the reinforcing coils. The thermoplastic material of the hose is stress relieved by an annealing process performed during axial compression of the hose at a time after the hose has been formed.