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Garden hose reel

a technology for hose reels and hoses, applied in fire rescue, transportation and packaging, thin material handling, etc., can solve the problems of reducing the service life of hose carts, reducing the service life of hoses, and consuming significant space, so as to facilitate the winding of hoses and facilitate stacking. , the effect of preventing tangling of hoses during winding

Inactive Publication Date: 2006-03-09
AMES TRUE TEMPER
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"The invention is about a stackable hose reel that can be easily stacked on top of each other. The hose reel includes a main frame, a basket assembly for supporting a hose, and a handle for easy handling. The basket assembly is rotatable about a first axis to prevent tangling of the hose. The hose reel also includes a locking mechanism to prevent the inner legs from being moved from the open position to the closed position. Additionally, the invention includes a water supply assembly with a groove and radial openings for easy installation."

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The sale of fully assembled portable hose cart obviates some problems associated with unassembled hose carts.
For example, current fully assembled portable hose carts are often bulky and consume significant space, notwithstanding the fact that they may be stacked on one another for storage or shipping purposes.
This is due in large part to the fact that the frames of such carts tend to be large and are not provided with the ability to fold and / or collapse.
In addition, in many current portable hose carts, the hose tends to tangle easily when wound and / or tends to jump off of the basket assembly around which it is being wound.

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[0036]FIG. 1 shows the improved hose reel 10 in a first, open, ready to use position (minus the garden hose). The hose reel 10 includes a basket assembly 12 for holding the garden hose (not shown). The basket assembly 12 includes opposed oblong flange members 14, 16 which allow for a “low profile” when the hose reel 10 is closed (see FIG. 2). The basket assembly 12 includes a hub 18 for winding thereon the garden hose. A crank assembly 20 is provided including a crank body 22 having a crank slot 24 and a pivotable crank handle 26. It will be appreciated that the crank handle 26 can be pivoted into the crank slot 24 (see FIG. 2) in order to further minimize the profile of the hose reel 10 when it is being shipped or moved about. A unique water supply 30 (FIG. 16) is also provided. The water supply will be described more fully below. A unique locking mechanism 200 (FIG. 14) is also provided. The unique locking mechanism will also be described below.

[0037] The main frame of the hose r...

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Abstract

A hose reel includes various improvements including features to enable improved stacking of hose reels, an improved locking mechanism to allow the hose reel to be selectively locked in open and / or closed positions, an improved handle to facilitate winding of the hose on the hose reel and prevent tangling, and an improved water supply.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION [0001] This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60 / 608,314, which was filed on Sep. 9, 2004.FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0002] This invention relates to an improved garden hose reel that will be described with reference to the drawings that are attached. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0003] Portable hose carts for convenient handling and storage of garden hoses have been commercially available for many years. The earlier versions embodied a metal tubular frame structure movably supported on a pair of wheels rotatable on an axle mounted on the frame structure and a hose reel rotatably mounted on the frame structure. Examples of portable hose reels of the metal tubular frame type are disclosed in the following U.S. Pat. Nos.: 2,488,425, 2,512,756, 2,590,963, and 4,137,939. [0004] In recent years, frames and components made of molded plastic have been utilized to replace the metal frames and components of the earlier portab...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): B65H75/44
CPCB65H75/403B65H75/4465B65H2701/534Y10T137/6958
Inventor ENGLISH, STEPHEN T.GRISHABER, JOHN R.
Owner AMES TRUE TEMPER
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