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A support for a flexible hose which is characterized by its ability to provide a gradually sloping trough into which a flexible hose is laid and which can be set up and removed with a minimal amount of effort and in a minimal amount of time. The support includes a plurality of generally vertically e

A support for a flexible hose which is characterized by its ability to provide a gradually sloping trough into which a flexible hose is laid and which can be set up and removed with a minimal amount of effort and in a minimal amount of time. The support includes a plurality of generally vertically extending support members that decrease in height as the support extends from one end of the support to the other. The support members comprise two side portions and a top portion, the top portion having an upwardly opening indentation for receiving a flexible hose. The support also includes a plurality of links pivotally fastened to the support members; some of said links have extensions that act as a base for the support. The cooperation of the support members and links forms a structure that is easily extended and retracted. Furthermore, the combination of the indentations in the top portion of the support members forms a trough into which a flexible hose is laid.

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A support for a flexible drainage hose comprising: a plurality of generally vertically extending downwardly opening rigid U-shaped support members each having two side portions and a top portion, with said support members being arranged in a longitudinally extending, parallel array so as to define o

A support for a flexible drainage hose comprising: a plurality of generally vertically extending downwardly opening rigid U-shaped support members each having two side portions and a top portion, with said support members being arranged in a longitudinally extending, parallel array so as to define opposite sides and opposite ends of said support, said downwardly opening U-shaped support members gradually decreasing in height from one end of said support to the other, and each top portion having an upwardly opening, generally arcuate indentation to receive and support said flexible drainage hose, means interconnecting said side portions of said support members along each of said sides of said support and so as to hold said support members in a desired extended or retracted relationship, and comprising a plurality of parallel links along each of said sides of said support, with each of said links being pivotally and frictionally connected to said side portions of a plurality of adjacent support members, at least a plurality of said links along each of said opposite sides of said support having extensions which extend below said side portions of said support members for engaging the ground and acting as a base for said support, and such that when said support is supported on level ground by said base, said top portions of said support members decline in height from said one end of said support to the other.