| abstract |
An irrigation hose comprises an elongated flat sheet of flexible water impervious material bent along its length to form a lapped longitudinal seam between opposing longitudinal margins of the sheet. Two transverse ribs in spaced apart relationship interconnect the opposing margins along their length to seal the longitudinal seam, thereby forming a flow regulating tube defined by the ribs and the opposing margins and forming a supply tube defined at least in part by the remainder of the sheet. The hose has a plurality of longitudinally spaced inlets to the flow regulating tube and a plurality of longitudinally spaced outlets from the flow regulating tube displaced from the respective inlets to provide a substantial path length from each inlet to a respective outlet. |