Quick-acting hose connection

Claim 1

A QUICK DETACHABLE SELF-SEALING HOSE CONNECTION COMPRISING A HOUSING HAVING A HOLLOW INTERIOR AND AN OPENING LEADING FROM A SUBSTANTIALLY PLANAR EXTERIOR FACE TO THE INTERIOR, A PAIR OF SPACED SUBSTANTIALLY CONTINUOUS INTERNAL ABUTMENTS THEREIN, SAID ABUTMENTS FACING EACH OTHER AND HAVING A RADIALLY RELATIVELY ENLARGED PORTION THEREBETWEEN WITHIN THE HOUSING, A SEPARATE MEMBER FOR CONNECTION WITH RESPECT TO SAID HOUSING, SAID MEMBER BEING ELONGATED AND HOLLOW, MEANS TO CONNECT A HOSE AT ONE END THEREOF, AND A DISTORTABLE SELF-SUSTAINING SEMIFLEXIBLE SEALING HEAD ON THE MEMBER ADJACENT THE OPPOSITE END THEREOF FOR INTRODUCTION INTO SAID HOUSING, SAID SEALING HEAD HAVING AN EFFECTIVE DIAMETER WHICH IS NORMALLY IN EXCESS OF SAID ABUTMENTS, SO THAT IT MUST BE COMPRESSED IN ORDER TO PASS THE ABUTMENTS, AND SAID HEAD BEING COMPRESSED BY THE ENTRANCE EDGE OPENING OF THE HOUSING UNTIL IT PASSES THE FIRST ABUTMENT ENCOUNTERED AND SNAPS PAST THE SAME, BEING HELD AGAINST WITHDRAWAL THEREBY, SAID SEALING HEAD UPON ENGAGEMENT WITH THE OTHER ABUTMENT BEING COMPRESSED DOWN TO A DIAMETER WHEREBY IT CAN BE RETRACTED PAST THE FIRST ABUTMENT SO AS TO BE DISLODGED AND DISCONNECTED FROM SAID HOUSING, THE SECOND-NAMED ABUTMENT BEING MOVABLE WITHIN THE HOUSING AND BEING ENGAGED FRICTIONALLY WITH RESPECT TO SAID SEALING HEAD SO THAT IT IS ALSO RETRACTED TO A POSITION ADJACENT THE FIRST ABUTMENT, A LOCKING DEVICE ENGAGING THE HOUSING AND SAID MEMBER, SAID LOCKING DEVICE BEING DISTORTABLE AT LEAST IN A DIRECTION AXIALLY OF SAID MEMBER, AND INTERENGAGING MEANS ON THE MEMBER AND THE DISTORTABLE PART OF SAID LOCKING DEVICE, SAID MEANS ACTING CONJOINTLY TO EXERT A CONTINUOUS BIAS ON SAID MEMBER, HOLDING THE LOCKING DEVICE IN POSITION AGAINST SAID SUBSTANTIALLY PLANAR SURFACE OF SAID HOSUSING AND THE SEALING HEAD IN ENGAGEMENT WITH SAID FIRST ABUTMENT SO THAT THE SEALING HEAD AND THE LOCKING DEVICE GRIP THE HOUSING AND HOLD SAID MEMBER IN LOCKED POSITION WITH RELATION TO THE HOUSING.