IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WATERPROOF HOSE PIPE."
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Quin, of Leyland, near Preston, in the County of
Lancaster, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
WATERPROOF HOSE PIPE."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Quin at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 18th February 1880.
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EDWARD QUIN, of Leyland, near Preston, in the County of Lancaster. IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WATERPROOF HOSE PIPE."
This Invention relates to the manufacture of waterproof hose pipe used for fire
engines and for other purposes, the object of the said Invention being to strengthen
such hose pipe and to increase its waterproof quality.
In manufacturing my improved hose pipe, I first take a piece of the requisite
length of the ordinary seamless woven hose pipe, and run india rubber solution or
cement through the same, or otherwise coat the inside thereof with india rubber
solution or cement.
I then roll a piece of canvas (or other suitable woven fabric of cotton or flax)
round a mandrel of suitable size, so as to form a complete tube, and having coated
the same on both sides with india rubber solution or cement, I draw or force
the same into the inside of the scamless hose pipe so as to form a lining to the same.
I then take a sheet of india rubber (or a piece of india rubber tubing of the
required diameter), and I draw or force this again inside the canvas lining, so that
I thereby form a three fold hose, the exterior being seamless woven hose, the
interior india rubber tubing, and having between the two a complete lining of
canvas or other suitable woven fabric of cotton or flax, the whole being firmly
united together by means of india rubber solution or cement.
Instead of proceeding as above I sometimes coat the outside of the india rubber
tube with the canvas or other woven fabric, and then draw or force the two together
into the seamless woven hose, or draw the latter over the two former as they are
upon the mandrel.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Edward Quin in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 18th August
1880.
EDWARD QUIN, of Leyland, near Preston, in the County of Lancaster. " IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WATERPROOF HOSE PIPE."
This Invention relates to the manufacture of waterproof hosepipe used for fire-
engines and for other purposes, the object of the said Invention being to strengthen
such hose pipe and to increase its waterproof quality, at the same time that it is
lighter, and less india rubber is required.
In manufacturing my improved hose pipe I first take a piece of the requisite
length of the ordinary seamless woven hose pipe, and run india rubber solution or
cement through the same, or otherwise coat the inside thereof with india rubber
Bolution or cement.
I then roll a piece of canvas (or other suitable woven fabric of cotton or flax)
round a mandrel of suitable size, so as to form a complete tube, and having coated
the same on both sides with india rubber solution or cement, I draw or force the
same into the inside of the seamless hose pipe, so as to form a lining to the same.
I then take a sheet of india rubber (or a piece of india rubber tubing of the
required diameter), and I draw or force this again inside the canvas lining, so that
I thereby form a threefold hose, the exterior being seamless woven hose, the interior
india rubber tubing, and having between the two a complete lining of canvas or
other suitable woven fabric of cotton or flax, the whole being firmly united together
by means of india rubber solution or cement. Instead of proceeding as above I
sometimes coat the outside of the india rubber tube with the canvas or other woven
.fabric, and then draw or force the two together into the seamless woven hose.
Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention, together with
the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or carried into practical
effect, I wish it to be understood that I claim as my Invention the improved manu-
facture of waterproof hose pipe, as hereinbefore particularly described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Quin, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and eighty.