DR. DANIEL ALBERT SZEKELY, DMD
Dentist at Barnes Lake Rd, North Huntingdon, PA

5388867, Feb 14, 1995

Aug 23, 1993

8/110805

Daniel A. Szekely - Irwin PA

B65D 9000, F26B 906

285120

For convenience in storing and handling, a garden hose of substantial length is formed of a plurality of sections which can be readily stored and readily assembled into a hose of substantial length. Each section has a female coupler at one end and a male coupler at the opposite end. Most of the couplers in the chain of hose sections are threadless, quick-connect coupler units with a male coupler that clicks into a female coupler. The sections are so short as not to require winding into a coil and so long that only a small number of sections are required to form the hose of substantial length. There are unfolded shorter tube sections and longer sections folded into a U-shape. In use, the female coupler of an end section is connected to the male coupler of a water source and the male coupler of this end section and of each of the other sections is connected to the female coupler of a contiguous section, the male coupler of the section at the opposite end being connected to the female coupler of a nozzle or any water-driven appliance. There is also a container assembly for storing the hose sections including a plurality of hose-section tubes, each for holding a hose section and a cylinder to the inner surface of which the hose-section tubes are secured to form a rigid unit.