The RAS Garden Hose Coupler - What Happens When An Experienced Silicon Valley Technology Engineer Turns His Focus Toward Innovating Your Garden!

Online, November 19, 2012 (Newswire.com) - RAS Engineering, a Silicon Valley based company, announces the release of the RAS Garden Hose Coupler, which solves the connection and leaking inconveniences within your tranquil garden.

Connecting garden hoses together or to hose bibs, spigots, sprayers, and other garden fixtures, has often been a pain. Hoses are cumbersome, the fittings leak, and hoses often twist in the process of connecting them. "Quick" coupler-connectors have emerged recently, but most require a second part to be attached at the ends of all connections, the water flow is reduced, and internal parts are difficult to keep clean.

A leaking garden hose in his own yard inspired mechanical engineer Ron Smith to search for a solution. Smith, who has spent years in research and development in quick connecting devices and ratcheting anchor technology, developed the RAS Garden Hose Coupler to take advantage of his new thread attachment technology.

The RAS Coupler functions similarly to a Chinese finger trap - the hose easily pushes into the device. One half turn enables an easy, quick, leak-free attachment. To release the coupler, turn the device a quarter counter turn and pull on the release - the segments and coupler pulls free. The patent pending RAS Coupler is molded using high strength fiberglass reinforced plastic that is not only strong, but rust proof and extremely durable.

RAS Engineering has turned to Indiegogo.com where consumers can now pre-purchase the RAS Coupler to help raise capital for tooling costs for the injection molds required to manufacture and release the unique garden hose connector by early spring 2013.

Starting his career at IBM in Silicon Valley, Ron Smith is named in patents critical for technology that enabled the development of hand held calculators, the video game industry, personal computers, and advanced manufacturing systems for building critical components of disc drives. Over the years Ron has engineered products for companies such as Apple Computer, Hewlett Packard, Seagate, Fairchild, Commodore, and Activision.

For press or wholesale inquiries, please visit www.rascoupler.com or contact Trevor Hill at +1 801.833.2224.