AN IMPROVED HOSE-COUPLING
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Edward Gedge, of No. 11, Wellington Street,
Strand, London, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for an Invention
of "AN IMPROVED HOSE-COUPLING." A communication from abroad. by
David Blagden Kendall, of Howland Flat, County of Sierra, State of
California, United States of America, Gentleman.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said William Edward Gedge at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 20th July 1881.
A com-
WILLIAM EDWARD GEDGE, of No. 11, Wellington Street, Strand, London, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent. "AN IMPROVED HOSE COUPLING."
munication from abroad by David Blagden Kendall, of Howland Flat, County of
Sierra, State of California, United States of America, Gentleman.
This Invention relates to a new and useful hose-coupling, and it consists in the
employment of a metallic fastener formed by attaching strips of metal to a ring 60
that the whole will form a series of elastic tapering clamps surrounding the hose at
its joint, said fastener being capable of compression by a circular band which slips
over it.
It consists further in supporting the inside of the hose at its joint by a short
piece of pipe being combined with a certain construction of exterior compressing
devices, all of which will hereinafter more fully appear.
Referring to the accompanying Sheet of Drawing,
Figure 1 is a side elevation of the device the subject of this Invention.
Figure 2 is a longitudinal section, and
Figure 3 is a perspective view thereof.
Let B represent one piece of hose, and B' another; an end of each fits over the
pipe A. The outside fastener is formed by the ring C to which are riveted strips
of metal a, a, having a shank a and a wide head or holder b curved as shown to
fit the circumference of the hose, the joint of which is made to come about the
middle of the heads. The inner surfaces of the heads bare grooved so as to form
slight ridges, or corrugations, or teeth for the purpose of securing a firmer gripe

page_text: upon the hose. The heads b of the strips a¹ are not wide enough to have their
edges meet; they thus form an incomplete cylinder.
The device is slipped over the hose so that the heads b shall cover the joint
therein, and on account of the heads being thicker than the shanks which connect
them with the ring the whole device is tapering, being larger at the head than at
the ring.
The strips a¹ act as springs which allow the segmental heads to be compressed
when the ring or band D is slipped upon it. I have shown three strips a¹, but I
could have more, keeping their heads small enough to form a broken circumference
so that they could be compressed.
The band D is a transverse section of a cone in order to fit the shape of the
fastening device and act as a holder which when pushed up towards the heads b
compresses them so that their grooved inner surfaces are pressed against the hose.
The inner pipe A resists the compression, and thus the ends of the hose aro held
firmly between them.
Having thus described the Invention communicated to me as aforesaid, what I
claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,―
Firstly. A hose-coupler consisting of the inner pipe A and the outer fastening
device formed of the ring C, strips a¹ riveted thereto with their curved heads b
grooved on their under surfaces, and the band D for slipping over the fastening
device, whereby its heads bare made to take firm hold upon the hose and secure
the joint over which they fit, substantially as and for the purpose herein described.
Secondly. A hose-coupling device consisting of the elastic strips or arms a' secured
to the ring C and having the segmental heads b, and adapted to clasp the meeting
ends of two sections of hose and compress them upon an inner pipe A by means of
the exterior compressing ring D, substantially as described.
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In witness whereof, I, the said William Edward Gedge, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twentieth day of July; in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty one.