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Product information sheet for Tite flex all-metal hoses, detailing applications, features, and ordering instructions.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 85\4\ scan0074 | |
| Date | 24th September 1934 guessed | |
| TITE FLEX ALL METAL HOSE Tite flex Applications. Automobiles : Fuel lines for Touring Cars, Trucks, Tractors, Motor-boats, Dirigibles and Aeroplanes. Petrol, oil and water lines for petrol engines, grease and oil lubrication systems. Steam : General power plant service, steam pressing irons, steaming tobacco, steaming tables, heating tank cars, steaming plush coats, tyre vulcanizing, phonograph record press moulds, button moulding presses, laundry machines, bottle machines, centrifugal extractors, separators, candy machines, gas holder hose, quarry steam drills, turbine connections and expansion joints. Oil : Lubrication automatic screw machine bearings or tools, clutch bearing in motor cars, oil dredge pumps, loading and unloading tank cars, oil burners. Grease : Chassis lubrication from central oiling tank, heavy duty grease lubricating systems for motor car manufacturing plants, hand and machine power grease guns. Water : Machine tools, sprayers for washing automobiles, vulcanizing machines, dish-washing machines and water coolers. Air Connections : Breather tubing on Automobiles, Air controls on Locomotive Boosters, bottle-blowing machines, hoists, air compressors, incandescent lamp bulb machines and tyre moulds. Hydraulic : Hydraulic Jacks used for bending ship frames, pumps, presses, hoists and automobile brakes. Gas Tubing : Flexible connection for gas ranges, heaters, hot plates and irons. General : Flexible connections to carry alcohol, hot asphaltum, illuminating gas, acetylene, oxygen, tar products, paint, starch, tooth paste, hot tallow, varnish, and various other compounds. Tite flex is used on fire extinguishers, refrigeration machines, suction pumps, dust collectors, fire engines, thermostats, cream separators, cigar machines, and paper tubing machines. --- Instructions for ordering Tite flex. Material to be conveyed. Maximum pressure to be carried. Nature of service to be performed. Inside diameter of the tubing wanted. Kind, size and thread of couplings required. If there is a temperature element advise degree of heat. Exact length of each piece between faces of parts to be connected. [Page number] 9 --- PAGE BREAK --- TITE FLEX ALL METAL HOSE Tite flex Installed as Petrol and Oil Fuel Lines on Aeroplanes In contrast to the other types of tubing, due to their frictional drag and limited play in the joints, Tite flex has a soft springy action. This elastic quality in Tite flex cushions and absorbs the vibration unavoidable in some installations. Tite flex bends easily within its limit of elasticity and instead of retaining a “set” tends to return to normal position when released. Tite flex does not become stiff under pressure but maintains its original flexibility. The superiority of Tite flex over any other metal tubing or over a rubber hose externally or internally wound with wire or flat strip metal is obvious from a point by point comparison. The seam in Tite flex being permanently fixed and free from any internal rubbing action, will show no appreciable deterioration after long periods of use that would impair the tightness of construction of other tubing. The absence of organic material that can be detached or dissolved insures the purity of the fluid conveyed and the original capacity and reliability is maintained. Tite flex Petrol Line showing braid, inner tube and Swivel Type coupling. [Page number] 6 | ||