Improvements in Syringes, Hose Directors, and similar articles.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 30th June, 1892-Accepted, 30th July, 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Syringes, Hose Directors, and similar articles.
1 JAMES HENRY STONE, trading as Benton and Stone, of Bracebridge Street,
in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturer 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 improvements in syringes, hose or pipe directors, for
garden pumps, garden engines, fire extinguishers, and other similar appliances, and
consists in the combination therewith of adjustable or movable rings of indiarubber,
gutta-percha, asbestos or other similar substance, whereby the liability to damage
such articles in their ordinary use, or from being dropped upon the ground &c. is
very much lessened if not entirely obviated, and parts of which also serve as an
adjustable drip guard.
Usually these appliances when in use are carelessly laid down or dropped or even
thrown down, and by reason of their barrels being made of very thin metal, or of
their fittings being exposed, such parts are frequently dented or otherwise damaged,
but by this my invention such damage is very much lessened or entirely prevented.
Also it is desirable that a drip guard should be provided which in the case of
syringes for instance should be adjustable in its distance from the nozzle so as to
be kept clear of the water in the vessel from which such supply of water is
extracted.
I am aware that drip guards have been employed which have been fixed at the
nozzle cud, but these necessitate their immersion into the reservoir of water when
in use, and are not adjustable and movable as in this my invention.
In order to fully explain this my invention, and to show how it may be
performed; I have appended hereunto an illustrative sheet of drawings upon which
are figures and numbers of reference.
Fig. 1, shows this my invention as applied to an ordinary hand garden syringe.
Fig. 2, shows my invention as applied to a hose director suitable for various
purposes.
Figs. 3, 4, 5 & 6 show in detail the movable ring and in various shapes.
Referring to Fig 1-1, is the barrel of the syringe upon which is passed the
rings 2, 2 These rings as before intimated are preferably made of indiarubber,
but may be made of gutta-percha, felt wood, asbestos or other yielding or elastic
material which shall receive or cushion a fall or blow in protection of the
article itself. More than one of such rings may be used, and placed at any
desired position as shown at 2°, 2° & 2ª. Further, in reference to the fore ring 2,
it serves also as a drip guard, and by reason of its being movable, (or an additional
one) may be placed at say position 2°, so that in drawing its supply of water from a
reservoir vessel, such drip guard need not be likely or capable of entering the
water, hence no water is likely to wet the syringe rearwise to such ring.
Again. At the rear end of the syringe the ring 2, is particularly of service
in protecting the movable fittings 3. The base 4 upon which such fittings are
screwed, are usually soldered to the barrel 1, and a blow from a fall or otherwise
frequently breaks them from the barrel body, but with the ring 2ª, the blow or
fall is cushioned off and damage prevented.
In Fig. 2, the same remarks apply substantially as to Fig. 1.
The movable
ring 2, protecting the nozzle 5 and the tube 1, while a further ring 2' may be used
if desired, or either of such rings moved into the position shown by dotted lines
at 25.
These rings may be various in their peripherical shape as that they may be of a

page_text: square, circular, polygonal, or star like shape, and whose edge or face may be
concave, convex, grooved &c. as may be desired.
Thus these rings as used in combination with these appliances, may be readily
attached to the article, without difficulty or delay, or the necessity of using tools
or other means of fitting.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what 1
claim is :-
1. In syringes, hose directors, and similar articles, the combination with the
barrel or contiguous portions of such articles, of a movable or adjustable ring or
rings, substantially as described and specified and for the purposes specified.
Dated this 29th day of. June 1892.
CHARLES T. POWELL
Applicant's Agent.