US 12,241,571 B2
Flexible hose end fitting assembly
Justin Lane Poehls, Glen Rose, TX (US); David Theodore Figgs, Fort Worth, TX (US); and Nuder Said, Fort Worth, TX (US)
Assigned to SPM Oil & Gas Inc., Fort Worth, TX (US)
Appl. No. 17/997,502
Filed by SPM Oil & Gas Inc., Fort Worth, TX (US)
PCT Filed Apr. 27, 2021, PCT No. PCT/US2021/029502
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 28, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/222329, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 4, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/018,294, filed on Apr. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0175618 A1, Jun. 8, 2023
Int. Cl. F16L 23/036 (2006.01); F16L 21/06 (2006.01); F16L 23/16 (2006.01)
CPC F16L 23/036 (2013.01) [F16L 21/065 (2013.01); F16L 23/162 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A flexible hose end fitting assembly comprising:
a first portion of the assembly having a first end configured for coupling to an end of a first fluid conduit and a flanged end comprising a plurality of flanged fingers, the flanged fingers of the first portion of the assembly having a flanged portion extending radially outward;
a second portion of the assembly having a flanged end comprising a plurality of flanged fingers configured to interlock with the plurality of flanged fingers of the flanged end of the first portion, and a second end configured for coupling to a second fluid conduit, the flanged fingers of the second portion of the assembly having a flanged portion extending radially outward;
an inner conduit segment disposed at an interface of the interlocking flanged ends of the first and second portions of the assembly; and
a ring clamp positioned at least partially within a groove formed by the flanged portions of the first and second portions of the assembly, the ring clamp configured to encircle and secure the interlocking flanged fingers of the ends of the first and second portions of the assembly, the first and second portions forming a continuous fluid conduit from the first fluid conduit and the second fluid conduit.