Hozelock hose

Hozelock is one of Britain’s popular gardening suppliers, with a reputation for innovation, quality and good value. It deals with manufacture of tools and instruments which make gardening simple and enjoyable.

Hozelock is located on an airfield in the village of Haddenham, UK. Their first product was the world’s first plastic hose connector – the Hoze-Lock. Their head office is in Birmingham (UK), and they are a global garden equipment manufacturer with overseas factories in France, Malaysia, Taiwan and China.

A Hozelock hose is a hollow tube which can carry fluids like water or any other solution from one location to another. Hoses are also sometimes called pipes or tubing. The shape of a hose is usually cylindrical with a circular cross section.

A Hose is designed according to application and performance. Common factors which decide its design are Size, Pressure Rating, Weight, Length, Straight hose or Coil hose and Chemical Computability.

Hoses are made up of one or a combination of many different materials. These materials can be nylon, polyurethane, polyethylene, PVC, or synthetic or natural rubbers, based on the environment and pressure rating needed. Hoses can also be manufactured from special grades of polyethylene (LDPE, LLDPE). Other hose materials are PTFE (Teflon), stainless steel and other metals.

For a better pressure resistance, hoses can be reinforced with fibers or steel cord. Some of the reinforcement methods are braiding, spiraling, knitting and wrapping of fabric plies. The reinforcement increases the pressure resistance and also the stiffness. For achieving flexibility, corrugations or bellows are used. Mostly circumferential or helical reinforcement rings are incorporated to maintain these corrugated or bellowed structures under internal pressure.

Hozelock-hoses are used to carry fluids through air or fluid environments, and clamps, spigots, flanges, and nozzles are used to control fluid flow.

Specific applications include the following:

• To water plants in a garden or lawn (through a sprinkler).
• To water crops in agriculture by drip irrigation.
• To fight fire in crop fields by pouring water.

Hose is flexible, hence used primarily to allow relative motion between components at either end of the hose assembly and to simplify routing and installation. It is much easier to route a hose assembly over, under, around, or through a series of obstacles than it is to bend and install a rigid tubing assembly.

Because hose is flexible, one must allow for contraction and expansion when cutting the hose to length. Hose can elongate up to 2% when pressurized, but, more importantly, can contract as much as 4%. Hoses must be slightly longer than needed to compensate for contraction.

Hozelock hose should be bent in one plane only to avoid twisting its wire reinforcement, which would reduce the hose’s pressure capability. Multi-plane bending often can be avoided by reorienting the hose. If this is not possible, a hose clamp is installed between bends, and provide enough length on both sides of the clamp to relieve strain on the hose’s reinforcement wires. One can check out the various product details at the official site online.