Panel mounted hose connector

Claim 1

A PANEL MOUNTED HOSE CONNECTOR COMPRISING AN INTEGRAL ONE-PIECE TUBE HAVING A GENERALLY CYLINDRICAL WALL ADAPTED TO PASS THROUGH AN APERTURE IN A PANEL A CONNECTING MEANS AT EACH RESPECTIVE END OF SAID TUBE FORMING A COUPLING TO WHICH A HOSE-TYPE CONDUIT MAY BE CONNECTED, AND LOCKING MEANS PROJECTING RADIALLY OUTWARDLY OF SAID WALL INTERMEDIATE ITS ENDS COMPRISING, A PAIR OF WING FLANGES AT CIRCUMFERENTIALLY SPACED POINTS ON SAID WALL FORMING A SHOULDER HAVING A DIAMETRAL EXTENT GREATER THAN THE DIAMETER OF THE APERTURE IN SAID PANEL AND OVERLYING THE EDGES OF THE PANEL APERTURE, A HOLDING MEMBER INTEGRAL WITH SAID TUBE AND HAVING A RAMP SURFACE EXTENDING OUTWARDLY FROM SAID WALL AND OFFSET BOTH CIRCUMFERENTIALLY AND AXIALLY RELATIVE TO SAID SHOULDER, AN ABUTMENT WALL PROJECTING OUTWARDLY FROM SAID TUBE WALL AND SPACED FROM SAID RAMP SURFACE TO FORM THEREWITH AN ARCUATE GROOVE SEGMENT SPACED CIRCUMFERENTIALLY FROM SAID SHOULDER FOR RECEIVING A CORRESPONDING EDGE PORTION OF THE PANEL AT THE APERTURE, AND A CANTILEVER ARM HAVING A PORTION INTEGRAL WITH SAID TUBE WALL AT A POINT DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSITE SAID HOLDING MEMBER AND HAVING A PROJECTING PORTION EXTENDING RADIALLY OUTWARDLY AND LONGITUDINALLY AND TERMINATING IN A FREE END SPACED OUTWARDLY FROM SAID TUBE WALL WITH A RECESS FORMED IN SAID FREE END FOR RECEIVING AN ADJOINING EDGE PORTION OF THE PANEL AT THE APERTURE, SAID HOSE CONNECTOR BEING MADE OF A MATERIAL SUFFICIENTLY RESILIENT SO SAID ARM WILL ELASTICALLY AND RESILIENTLY ENGAGE THE PANEL, THE DIAMETRAL DISTANCE BETWEEN THE BASE OF SAID GROOVE AND THE BASE OF SAID RECESS BEING GREATER THAN THE DIAMETER OF SAID APERTURE WHEN SAID ARM IS IN UNSTRESSED POSITION, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN SAID TUBE WALL AND THE ADJACENT UNDER SURFACE OF SAID ARM BEING SUFFICIENT TO ALLOW SAID ARM TO RESILIENTLY DEFORM TO PROVIDE A SNAP-IN LOCK ASSEMBLY WHEN THE HOSE CONNECTOR IS FASTENED TO AN APERTURED PANEL, SAID GROOVE, SAID RECESS AND SAID SHOULDER FORMING A CIRCUMFERENTIAL TRACKWAY AFFORDING RELATIVE ROTATION BETWEEN THE PANEL AND THE CONNECTOR WHILE RESTRAINING RELATIVE LATERAL AND PIVOTAL MOVEMENT THEREBETWEEN, SO THAT HOSE-TYPE CONDUITS OF A COMMON HYDRAULIC CIRCUIT ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF SAID PANEL CAN BE INTERCONNECTED BY COUPLING TO OPPOSITE ENDS OF THE CONNECTOR.