Patent ID: 7093808

Claim:
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, the holder base is positioned on the outer periphery of the annular hose clamp, and the four separately constructed holding arms protruding from a pair of lateral edges of the holder base and forming opposed arcs lying along a circumference having a diameter somewhat smaller than the outside diameter of the hose, 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.