US1355781A

US1355781A - Repair device

Info

Publication number: US1355781A
Application number: US352796A
Authority: US
Inventors: Rodgers Martin
Original assignee: Alex Taylor & Co Inc
Current assignee: Alex Taylor & Co Inc
Priority date: 1920-01-20
Filing date: 1920-01-20
Publication date: 1920-10-12
Anticipated expiration: 1937-10-12

Description

M. RODGERS.

REPAIR DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED lAN.20. I920.

1,355,781. Patentd Oct. 12,1920.

' mmvron WITNESSES M'flfif/N M06075 1 UNI ED STATES MARTIN RODGERS, or NEW YOR N. Y., AssrG oR 0F ONE-HALE r'O ALEX. TAYLOR AT NT OFFICE.

a 00., me, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

REPAIR DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 12, 1920.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARTIN RODGERS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Repair Device, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The present invention relates to improvements in apparatus for repairing flexible tubes and the like, and it pertains more particularly to means. for repairing the inflation tubes of inflatable bodies.

It is an object of the invention to provide a means by the use of which tubes of the above-mentioned character may be readily applied to inflatable bodies.

Footballs, basket-balls, and the like, have internally of their cover, what is commonly called a bladder and said bladder is inflated by means of a flexible tube. usual manner of closing these tubes is to fold them over intermediate of their ends and wrap them with a suitable strand or cord, rubber, or the like. This treatment being constantly applied, the tube cracks and becomes leaky, and it is sometimes desirable to replace this tube which without the use of special apparatus is a difiicult operation.

Referring to the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a fragmentary view of a por tion of a bladder of the aforementioned character showing the application of a device constructed in accordance with the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the tube showing the method of applying the same to the bladder, and

Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the method of withdrawing the placing apparatus.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, the reference character 5 designates a bladder and 6 represents a nipple which is secured thereto, said nipple having a circular flanged piece 7 of relatively thin material, by means of which ,it is secured to the bladder 5 with cement or by a process of vulcanization.

The r The device of the present invention consists of a sleeve 8, the upper end of which is provided with a reduced portion 9, the other end being open. Leading from the reduced end is a cord 12, said cord being provided with a handle 13 by means of which it is manipulated. While in the present instance the element 12 has been described as a cord, it'is apparent that a wire or other similar flexible material may be employed with equal facility. In use, this device is inserted over the end Of the nipple 6, as indicated in Fig. 1. After this has been accomplished, the length of tube 15 which it is desired to secure to the nipple 6, is passed over the cord 12 and is positioned Over the sleeve 8, by means of which the positioning of the length of tube 15 is facilitated. The nipple 6 being first provided with a coating of suitable adhesive material, such as cement, the tube 15 is drawn down over the member 8 as shown in Fig. 2, until its lower end engages the piece 7, as indicated by the reference character 16 in Fig. 2. The cement by means of which the tube 15 is secured in place is indicated by the reference character 17, and after the tube 15 has been secured to the nipple 6 by means of the cement and the same has sufiiciently set,

to temporarily secure the tube 15, by subjecting the cord 12 to a pulling action through the medium of its handle 13, the

metallic member 8 is removed from the end of the tube 15, as indicated in Fig. 3.

From the foregoing, it will be apparent that the present invention provides means by which two flexible tubes may be placed one within the other for the purpose of securing one to the other, and, at the same time, provides means which is detachably carried by one tube for greatly facilitating such an operation.

Claims:

1. A device of the character described comprising a metallic body having an open end anda reduced end, and flexible Operating means secured to the reduced end of said metallic body.

2. A device of the character described comprising a metallic body having an open end and a reduced closed end, and suitable operating mechanism secured to the reduced end on the interior of the metallic body.-

3. The method of uniting flexible :tubes,

. which consists in inserting one" of the tubes rigid body and subsequently removing said 7 hollow rigid body from the first-mentioned 10 tube longitudinally through the second-mentioned tube, substantially as described? MARTIN RODGERS.

' Witness: n Non R. Hmscn.