Patent ID: 7712709
Filing Date: 2010-05-11
Classification: F16L

Abstract:
1. A combination comprising a device useful for the organized storage of flexible conduits, including hoses, wires, and cables, which device comprises: a) a backbone portion, having a longest length dimension, a width dimension, a height dimension, a top face and a bottom face, a first end portion, a second end portion, a first edge portion, and a second edge portion; b) a plurality of finger portions, each having a length dimension, a width dimension, a thickness dimension, a first end portion, and a second end portion, wherein said finger portions are attached to and disposed along the length dimension of said backbone portion on its top face, with each of said finger portions being attached at their first end portion to said backbone portion, and wherein said finger portions are oriented such that their length dimensions extend substantially perpendicularly from said backbone portion with respect to the longest length dimension of said backbone portion, wherein one of said finger portions comprises a terminal finger portion, being disposed adjacent to an end portion of said backbone portion, said terminal finger portion being contoured sufficiently to prevent a length of conduit that is present in said hook portion from being pulled off from said device in a direction parallel to the direction said finger portions extend from said backbone and including a hook portion disposed on its second end portion, wherein said backbone portion further comprises, along its length, a plurality of mounting holes disposed therethrough, said bottom face of said backbone portion being substantially flat, and further comprising a substrate to which said device is vertically mounted such that said terminal finger portion is disposed at a height elevation that is vertically higher than the remaining finger portions, and further comprising a flexible conduit in a coiled configuration having a plurality of loops, wherein said loops are disposed between said finger portions such that two adjacent loops in said coiled configuration are disposed between two successive finger portions on said device.