Vibration joints

Claim 1

IN A VIBRATION JOINT OF THE TYPE HAVING A PLURALITY OF CONCENTRIC PLIES OF RUBBER AND FABRIC BUILT UP INTO THE FORM OF A TUBULAR BODY HAVING INNER AND OUTER SURFACES OF RUBBER AND TERMINATING IN OUTWARDLY DIRECTED RADIAL END FLANGES DEFINED BY BENT-UP PORTIONS OF SAID PLIES; MEANS FOR REINFORCING SAID JOINT SO AS TO INHIBIT ELONGATION AND FLANGE DISTORTION UNDER PRESSURE OF FLUIDS FLOWING THERETHROUGH, COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF CONCENTRIC RELATIVELY INEXTENSIBLE NYLON CORD FABRIC TUBES INCORPORATED IN SAID BODY, THE END PORTIONS OF SAID NYLON TUBES BEING BENT RADIALLY OUTWARDLY AND EXTENDING INTO SAID END FLANGES SUBSTANTIALLY TO THE RADIALLY OUTERMOST JPERIPHERIES THEREOF; A PLURLITY OF ELONGATED, RELATIVELY INEXTENSIBLE MULTI-WIRE TAPES INCORPORATED IN SAID BOYD RADIALLY OUTWARDLY OF SAID NYLON TUBES, SAID TAPES OVER THE LENGTH OF SAID BODY BEING ORIENTED PARALLEL TO ONE ANOTHER AND TO THE AXIS OF SAID BODY AND BEING SPACED FROM ONE ANOTHER CIRCUFERENTIALLY OF SAID BODY, AND THE OPPOSITE ENDS OF SAID TAPES BEING BENT UP SUBSTANTIALLY PERPENDICULARLY AND EXTENDING INTO SAID END FLANGES COEXTENSIVE WITH SAID END PORTONS OF SAID NYLON TUBES AND DISPOSED ABOUT SAID TAPES AT THE CENTRAL REGION OF SAID TUBULAR BOY TO PROVIDE A RADIAL REINFORCEMENT FOR SAID BODY.