US1442209A - Hose clamp - Google Patents

Description

Jan. 16, 1923.

l. G. YODERS ET AL.

HOSE CLAMP.

FILED MAR. 9. 1922.

Patented Jan. 16, 1923. g i ,p i

' -IRYIN.G..XQQERS ANnJA-Mns e. m y, or wasrirneroigr} glw n 'm H "e se el er were are am 222- t-m1- meme 7 Z1 QZZZM'OTI? it my area v p p troducedinfanyo Be gt known that e,'"-Iny i G. Yopnns and 8 JltIE$ C I BX; citizens of the" United i we were ea' rei e' s b meantime re eshiil tenfe d 15 s eln risylvania, have "inyented certain" new and useful Improvements H ose 5 Clamps, of-which the' Qllmv h i p -spe i i w Thisinvent ioii relates to hose clamps 'v ;nd it for obj'ectto prev d e a simple, inexpensiy'e and 'efiicient, clamp" wherebyrubberhos'emay be drawninto and secured in closely e mbracing-fi'ielation pivotp n l3'andsa l -n to a nipple, coupling sl'e'eve',pip'e, or other located on 'op posite sides of the lever: 15 tubular object introduced within an end of When the lever 2 occupies its outwardly it said hose. Y I swung position, as shown in Fig; 1 the se -I A further ob ect is to provide a device ments3 and 4: are thereby held-in relativ e 70 '01": the character mentioned which may be ly separatedpositions in which their gdjgi' readily slippedinto position upon thehose cent ends barely .meet, thus openin the and may thereafter be contracted, by hand clampingv ring. to its full capacity. T8 coninto tight-gripping clamping relation to the tract said ring, jas upon a hose 14 received latter by a mere forward swinging movewithin its embrace, the lever 12 is swunv'to .75 ment of a therein-embodied lever, which the'closed position shown in iFi 2 in V will be securely maintained in said position which it, lies closely. against the se merit 3. against chance dislodgment, and which may In moving to said. *gosition due to the i I be released, as for removal, by'the mere act eccentric location of the pivo t-pin 13 with of swinging: said lever in a reverse, or outrespect to that of the pin 11,'"the adjac tsO ward, direction. I p I or lug carrying ends of the segments'3. and

With these and other objects in jview, the 4, are carried past each other thus producinvention resides in the features'of 'coning a material contraction of t he'rinn which I struction hereinafter described, reference results in the. embraced hose bein ti htly being had to the accompanying drawings, compressed or clamped upon a fpip e or 85: in which v p other tubular member'of therequired's ie Flgurezl 1s a face view of the clamp, received from'said hose; showing it open position and slipped Chance opening of the'clampin rin 'is CV81: a tubular i Prevented due to the fact that-in thecldsedi Figure 2 1s a similar view showing the position thereof'the eccentrically "disposed 90" clamp closed upon the hose; and j pivot-pin '13 is located in or slightly inward I Figure 3 is an upper edge view of the of the line of compressing forcef that is.

clamp with its parts disposed in the posio-nor sligl tlypastgthedead center of clos trons shown in Fig. 1. p mg movement. The outer end of theilever Referring to the drawings, the clamp has aslight outward curvature providin 95- comprises a clamping ring'c'omposed of armeans whereby it may P-be' convenientl; I cuately curved link-like members or seggrasped for effecting " outwaivl movement ments 1, 2, 3 and 4 stamped from sheet thereofwhen suchis fdesiredl metal. The meetingends of segments land What isclaime'd is Y I 2 are disposed in overlapping relation'and 1.] A hose clampzcomprising" a ringcom- 100. are connected by a plvot-pin 5, while their posed ofa plurality of ring segments said opposite ends are pivotally connected to the segments being pivotally connected eiid to ad acent ends of the links 3 and 4:, 'respecend except at the meeting ends 'of two I it tively, by pins or bolts 6 and 7. ,As' herein thereof, and a leverhaving one of said". shown, the plvotal connection 7 is in the meeting ends permanently pivoted to an end form of a'removable bolt which'may be'inthereof and having the other meetingend I pivotally attached thereto on the opposite side thereof at a point located outward of the first-mentioned pivotal attachment, said lever being adapted for movement to carry the thereto attached segment ends forward and back past each other for contracting and expanding'said ring.

2. A hose clamp comprising a ring composed of a plurality of ringsegments, said segments being pivotally connected end toend except at the meeting ends of two thereof, and a lever having one of said meeting ends permanently pivoted to an end thereof andhaving the other meeting end pivotally attached thereto on the opposite side thereof at a point located outward. of the firstmentioned pivotal attachment, said lever be ing curved to substantially correspond to the general curvature of the ring segments and being adapted for movement to and. from close-seating relation to the first mentioned of the thereto-attached segments in a position, lateral with respect to said segments,whereby thesaid meeting ends of the latter are carried forward and back past each other for effecting, respectively, con-t traction and expansion of the ring.

3. A hose clamp comprising a ring composed of a plurality of ring segments, said segments being pivotally connected end to end except at the meeting ends of two thereof, each of saidmeeting" ends vhaving an outwardly directed lug, a lever having one of said lugs pivotallyattached to an end thereof and having ally attached thereto on the opposite side thereof and rearward- 9f the point of atlever being adapted for from a seated position adjacent to a side tachmcnt of the first mentioned lug, said movementto and a I 140 of the segment which carries said-first-men the other lug pivottioned lug, wherebyfthe said meeting ends are carrieo-past-each; other vto and from ring-contracting position. I K

In testimony whereof we afiix 01].I S1gnatures in, presence of av witness.

IRVIN e. YODERS;

. JAMES: C. FILB'Y. 7

Witness; a V V M. T. MANIONQ i

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