Hose and Fittings

A hose is a flexible tube with a hollow center, used for transporting fluids or compressed air or gases from place to place. Terms like piping and tubing may also be used for hoses, and they can be made from a wide range of different materials, including natural rubber, synthetic rubber, PVC, nylon, and polyurethane. <lt/>p<gt/> Hose fittings usually refers to the various attachments and accessories that are used in conjunction with hoses to change the way they work or to attach them to various other devices, containers, appliances, or even to connect two separate hoses together into a longer line of tubing. Common hose fittings may include hose ends, nozzles, connectors, crimping ferrules, couplings and adapters. <lt/>p<gt/> There are fuel hoses, which are used for transporting fuel from place to place, and high-pressure hoses, which are commonly used in the oil industry to move oil at high levels of pressure and velocity for speed of transfer during loading and unloading.