IMPROVEMENTS IN REELS FOR CON- VEYING FROM PLACE TO PLACE, LAYING DOWN, AND TAKING UP FLEXIBLE TUBING OR HOSE
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Haynes and Henry Haynes, of 229,
Edgware Road, Paddington, in the County of Middlesex, Iron-
mongers, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN REELS FOR CON-
VEYING FROM PLACE TO PLACE, LAYING DOWN, AND TAKING UP FLEXIBLE
TUBING OR HOSE."
Sealed the 5th December 1871, and dated the 7th July 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Haynes and
Henry Haynes at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 7th July 1871.
We, EDWARD HAYNES and HENRY HAYNES, of 229, Edgware Road,
Paddington, in the County of Middlesex, Ironmongers, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN REELS FOR CONVEYING
FROM PLACE TO PLACE, LAYING DOWN, AND TAKING UP FLEXIBLE TUBING OR
HOSE," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in reels for conveying
O from place to place, laying down, and taking up flexible tubing or hose.

page_text: For this purpose we employ a carriage like a wheelbarrow; on it there
is an upright pivot or axis, on which an annular receiving trough is
mounted so that it can rotate freely. The wheel of the carriage drives
by spur gear a pair of grooved rollers at a surface speed equal to that
of the wheel. The flexible pipe or hose when it is to be delivered or
picked up is held between these rollers, and then when the barrow is
wheeled from place to place in consequence of the rotation of the rollers
the flexible tube is delivered or taken up according as the barrow is
propelled with the wheel to the front or rear. The pull or thrust on the
flexible tube causes the rotation of the trough to coil up or uncoil the
pipe.
.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Edward Haynes and Henry Haynes in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 6th January 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, wc, EDWARD
HAYNES and HENRY HAYNES, of 229, Edgware Road, Paddington, in
the County of Middlesex, Ironmonger, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-
fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Edward Haynes and Henry Haynes,
Her special license that we, the said Edward Haynes and Henry Haynes,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
Edward Haynes and Henry Haynes, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and
Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN REELS FOR 'CONVEYING FROM
PLACE TO PLACE, LAYING DOWN, AND TAKING UP FLEXIBLE TUBING OR HOSE,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Edward Haynes
and Henry Haynes, our executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under our or their hands and seals, or under the hand and

page_text: seal of one of us or them, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was
to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE,- that I, the said Edward Haynes, on behalf of
myself and the said Henry Haynes, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in reels for conveying
from place to place, laying down, and taking up flexible tubing or hose.
For this purpose we employ a carriage like a wheelbarrow, on it there
is an upright pivot or axis on which an annular receiving trough is
3 mounted so that it can rotate freely. The wheel of the carriage drives
by spur gear a pair of grooved rollers at a surface speed equal to that
of the wheel. The flexible pipe or hose when it is to be delivered or
picked up is held between these rollers, and then when the barrow is
wheeled from place to place in consequence of the rotation of the
rollers the flexible tube is delivered or taken up according as the
barrow is propelled with the wheel to the front or rear. The pull or
thrust on the flexible tube causes the rotation of the trough to coil up
or uncoil the pipe.
And in order that our Invention may be fully understood and readily
carried into effect we have shewn in the Drawings hereunto annexed a
reel or apparatus constructed according to our Invention.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shews a side view, Figure 2 a front view. and Figure 3a

page_text: shewn, and the axes of the upper roller fare drawn downwards by
clastic springs h to cause the grooved rollers e and fto nip the tube or
hose between them. The springs also serve to prevent the lower roller e
from rising, and thus they keep the toothed wheel d in gear with the
toothed wheel c. The flexible tube or hose after passing between the
rollers e and fis led under guides i, ¹, and into the annular receiving
trough, which is mounted on a central pivot l. A short length of the
end of the tube or hose is also led through a hole ¹ into the interior of
the cylinder k, which forms the centre of the annular trough. If the
flexible tube or hose is lying along the ground and the carriage is
wheeled forward the rollers e and f take it up and deliver it into the
trough k, the thrust of the tube as it is delivered into the trough causes
the trough to revolve, and the tube or hose coils itself up within it.
The guides serve to keep the tube or hose from bending as it is passing
into the trough, and so enable it to cause the trough to revolve. The
guide is shewn to be a roller with a screw groove cut in it. When
the tube or hose bears against the under side of this roller it causes it
to revolve, and the hose is moved nearer to or further from the centre
of the trough, so as to avoid coiling the hose simply around the outer
circumference of the trough. A plain roller or other guide may however
be used in place of such grooved roller. When it is desired to deliver
the flexible pipe or hose from the trough on to the ground the carriage
is wheeled backwards. The rollers e and then draw it from the
trough. When the carriage is to be wheeled from place to place the
lower roller e is raised by a lever m so as to lift the toothed wheel d
out of gear with the toothed-wheel c. The opposite end of the lever
is then held down by the catch n. The toothed wheels being thus held
out of gear the carriage may be wheeled from one place to another
without coiling up or uncoiling the flexible tube or hose. In place of
the carriage being provided with only one wheel, like a wheelbarrow,
the carriage may be supported on three or other number of wheels, and
be similarly provided with an annular receiving trough and with grooved
rollers e and f driven at the same surface speed as the supporting

page_text: conveying from place to place, laying down, and taking up flexible
tubing or hose.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Haynes, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fifth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.