Patent ID: 6918161
Filing Date: 2005-07-19
Classification: F16L,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A hose clamp for clamping a hose on a pipe, the hose clamp comprising: a spring band bent to a ring shape and comprising end sections configured to positively lock one another in a locking position when the spring band is in a spread-apart position widened past a nominal diameter of a hose against a spring force of the spring band, wherein the locking position of the end sections is releasable such that the spring band contracts about the hose; wherein the end sections are positioned laterally adjacent to one another in an axial direction of the hose clamp and have a first edge and a second edge facing one another in the axial direction of the hose clamp; wherein the first and second edges have at least one laterally projecting tooth, respectively; wherein, in a radial view onto the hose clamp, the at least one tooth of the first and second edges is substantially triangular, respectively; wherein both of the flanks of the at least one tooth of the first and second edges are slanted toward a free end of the end section, respectively; and wherein the at least one tooth of the first edge in the spread-apart position of the spring band is adapted to engage the at least one tooth of the second edge by axially bending the end sections toward each other against the spring force of the spring band.