Air hose
An air hose or sometimes air line is a flexible tube for conveying the flow or pressure of air.
Uses of air hoses include:
- In scuba equipment, to carry air from the scuba regulator to other equipment and to the diver.
- To supply low pressure breathing air to standard diving dress. The earliest air hoses were made from leather, but by 1859 rubber was in use.[1]
- An essential component of a surface-supplied diving umbilical cable.
- In railway air brakes .
- In road vehicles, between tractors and semi-trailers which use air brakes.
- To supply compressed air to pneumatic hand tools.
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Marx, Robert F. (1990). The History of Underwater Exploration. Dover books on earth sciences. Courier Corporation. p. 59. ISBN 9780486264875.
Categories:
- Diving equipment
- Hoses
- Engineering equipment