Abstract: A detachable line guide is disclosed. A screw with a helical groove between threads is provided. A guide is positioned a fixed distance perpendicular to the screw and can travel laterally freely. A follower mount is detachably affixed to the guide. The follower mount has a follower that is biased into the groove. Rotation of the screw causes the follower to track the groove and move the follower mount laterally. The guide is configured for a line to pass therethrough. When the line exerts a lateral force above a predetermined threshold against the guide, the guide and the follower mount detach.

Abstract: A vacuum system has a cabinet that can be mounted to a wall. The cabinet includes a hose storage compartment with a hose drive assembly for automatically extending and retracting a vacuum hose. A portable vacuum unit can be removably docked to the cabinet and connected to the vacuum hose so that waste can be picked up the vacuum hose when the portable vacuum unit is docked. When undocked, the portable vacuum unit can be used alone.

Abstract: There is provided an hydraulic reeling-in device for a water-transmitting, flexible hose, having mounting elements, a hose reel, an hydraulic driver kinematically connected to the hose reel, a water inlet connectable to a water-supplying pipe line and a water outlet provided with a connector for the hose. There is further provided a valve having two positions, a first position in which the water is permitted to pass from the water inlet through the water outlet into the hose, and a second position in which water is permitted to pass from the water inlet to the hydraulic driver in order to reel-in the hose, and a tubular member adapted, in the second position of the valve, to conduct water to the hydraulic driver.

Abstract: A gas tubing reel includes a housing having a tubing-reel rotatably positioned therein for unwinding and retracting tubing. The tubing-reel is biased in a retracting direction and includes ratcheting and releasing means for selectably paying out or retracting the tubing. One side wall of the housing defines an opening through which the tubing-reel may be slidably removed. The cable reel includes a line guide engaged with a worm gear for reciprocative movement between side walls of the housing whereby to evenly distribute the gas tubing on the tubing-reel. A swivel housing is coupled to the tubing-reel in a bearing relationship and includes an inlet port for receiving an end of the tubing and an outlet port for coupling to a nasal cannula. Thus, a gas may be delivered from a gas source through the gas tubing, swivel coupling, and cannula to a patient without tangling or twisting the tubing.

Abstract: A vacuum hose assembly for built-in or permanently installed vacuum cleaner systems that includes a motor powered reel assembly for allowing a user to extend and/or retract the flexible vacuum hose as needed and preventing the vacuum hose from becoming entangled while stored between uses. The vacuum hose assembly includes a reel support bracket assembly, a flexible vacuum hose, a motor driven vacuum hose drum reel assembly, a vacuum hose alignment assembly and a drum reel drive motor assembly.

Abstract: The present application discloses a hose reel apparatus for use in lawn and gardening care.

Abstract: A hose reel carrier includes a wheeled structure having spaced apart side walls and a top wall covering a receptacle; a hose reel is rotatably mounted between the side walls and is rotated by a hand crank operated outside one of the side walls; a reciprocating hose guide carried on support rods is also driven by the crank; a fluid connection is provided through the other side wall to supply fluid to a hose carried on the reel.

Abstract: A system and method for handling a hose, according to which the hose is clamped to a clamp and the clamp is moved between a first position in which the hose is retracted and a second position in which the hose is extended. Manual movement of the hose from its retracted position is sensed and the clamp is driven to its second position, and manual movement of the hose from its extended position is sensed and the clamp is driven to its first position.

Abstract: An improved reeling device including a reel driven by an electric motor. The device further includes a hose having first and second ends and two electric conductors running along the entire length of the hose between the first and second ends of the hose. The hose is wound on the reel. The first end of the hose is connectable to a tool, and the second end of the hose is connected to the reeling device. The conductors at the second end of the hose extend from the hose such that one of the conductors is in communication with the motor and the other conductor is attached to a part of the reel device. A switch is connected to the conductors at a proximity of the first end of the hose and the switch is arranged to complete an electrical circuit.