Flexible feed tube with bail fastening said tube to a discharge spout

Claim 1

IN A DEVICE FOR DISTRIBUTING GRANULAR MATERIAL, A DISPENSING HOPPER ADAPTED TO CONTAIN A QUANTITY OF SAID GRANULAR MATERIAL, A GENERALLY TUBULAR DISCHARGE SPOUT SECURED IN DEPENDING RELATIONSHIP TO SAID HOPPER, SAID DISCHARGE SPOUT DEFINING A PAIR OF GENERALLY DIAMETRICALLY ALIGNED AND OPPOSED APERTURES, A FLEXIBLE TUBULAR FEED CONDUIT HAVING ITS UPPER END ASSOCIATED WITH SAID DISCHARGE SPOUT, SAID CONDUIT DEFINING A PAIR OF GENERALLY DIAMETRICALLY ALIGNED AND OPPOSED APERTURES WHICH ARE ALSO ALIGNABLE WITH THE APERTURES DEFINED BY SAID DISCHARGE SPOUT, AND A FLEXIBLE AND RESILIENT CONNECTING BAIL FOR SECURING THE UPPER END OF SAID CONDUIT TO SAID DISCHARGE SPOUT, SAID BAIL COMPRISING A PAIR OF SPACED AND ELONGATED GENERALLY PARALLEL SIDE PORTIONS, A GENERALLY ARCUATE CLIP PORTION INTEGRALLY CONNECTED TO EACH OF THE LOWER ENDS OF SAID SIDE PORTIONS, SAID CLIP PORTION OF SAID BAIL HAVING AN INNER DIAMETER SLIGHTLY LESS THAN THE OUTER DIAMETER OF SAID CONDUIT AND ALSO HAVING A CIRCUMFERENTIAL LENGTH OF SUBSTANTIALLY MORE THAN 180* BUT LESS THAN 360*, AND A PAIR OF EARS WHICH EXTEND INWARDLY TOWARD ONE ANOTHER AND ARE ONE EACH DEFINED AT THE UPPER END OF EACH OF SAID SIDE PORTIONS OF SAID BAIL, SAID EARS BEING ONE EACH RECEIVED IN SAID ALIGNED APERTURES OF SAID DISCHARGE SPOUT AND SAID TUBULAR CONDUIT, AND SAID CLIP PORTION OF SAID BAIL BEING ADAPTED TO CLIP ON AND TIGHTLY GRIP AN OUTER SURFACE PORTION OF SAID TUBULAR CONDUIT.