An Improvement in Hose Reels.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 21st July, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 3rd May, 1893-Accepted, 17th June, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by JESSE WILLIAM WHITE, of Petersham, in the
Colony of New South Wales, Builder.]
An Improvement in Hose Reels.
I, HAROLD IMRAY of 28 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane in the County
of London, Chartered Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the hose used for extinguishing fires and other purposes,
and the reels on which the hose wound for transport and storage, so arranged
that the water is conveyed by the hose while it is on the reel, allowing of a greater
or less length of hose being wound off.
For this purpose the end part of the hose which forms the innermost convolution
on the reel is connected by a bend to the tubular axle of the reel which is itself
connected to a stand pipe or other supply, the reel and hose being so mounted on
the tubular axle with a suitable watertight union that they can turn freely on the
axle without leakage at the junction to the axle.
Dated this 21st day of July 1892.
ADEL & IMRAT,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Hose Reels.
I, HAROLD IMRAY, of No. 28 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the
County of London, Chartered Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to the hose used for extinguishing fires and other purposes,
and the reels on which the hose is wound for transport and storage, so arranged
that the water is conveyed by the hose while it is on the reel, allowing of a greater
or less length of hose being wound off.
For this purpose the end part of the hose which forms the innermost convolution
on the reel is connected by a bend to the tubular axle of the reel which is itself
connected to a stand pipe or other supply, the reel and hose being so mounted on
the tubular axle with a suitable water tight union that they can turn freely on the
axle without leakage at the junction to the axle.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings is a side view (with half of the side cheek
removed) and
Fig. 2 is a vertical section shewing a hose reel according to my invention.
A is a tubular axle which can be connected by a union or otherwise to a water
main, B is the axle box or sleeve forming the centre to which the reel is fixed. On
the end of the sleeve B a bend C is screwed against the end collar of A so as to
make a tight joint. The bend C has a trunnion D which can revolve in a bearing
formed in one of the side frames E, the other side frame F carrying the stationary
axle A. The hose H is secured to the bend C and is carried in the reel which can
be turned round the axle A as the hose is wound on or off, while water can pass
freely through the hose.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
A hose reel having a stationary tubular axle connected to a water supply, on
which can turn the central box of the reel and a bend forming passage from the
axle to the base, substantially as described.
Datad this 2nd day of Mar 1802
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.