Patent ID: 7093808
Filing Date: 2006-08-22
Classification: F16L,Y10T

Abstract:
1. In combination, an annular hose clamp and a clamp holder defining a subassembly for fixing the hose clamp on a hose in a position to be clamped to a pipe, said hose clamp adapted to be preliminarily fixed on said hose, when said hose is in said position, in a diametrically expanded condition, said clamp holder comprising a holder base and four separately constructed holding arms formed from an elastically deformable material, each of the four separately constructed holding arms having a guide for securing the clamp holder to the hose clamp, protruding from an outer peripheral surface of the holding arm and having a height such that the guide does not protrude outwardly of said hose clamp in said sub-assembly when said hose clamp is in the diametrically expanded condition.