Improvements in or Additions to Garden and like Syringes and Hose Branches.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Feb., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 10th Oct., 1894-Accepted, 10th Nov., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or Additions to Garden and like Syringes and
Hose Branches.
I, ALFRED JOHN PURSER, of the Firm of G. and W. Purser, of Palmer Street,
in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows :-
This invention relates to garden and like syringes and hose branches and has for
its object primarily a means for intercepting the drippings running down the barrel
of the syringe or branch, and thereby keeping the part held by the user perfectly
dry or free from wet.
In carrying out my invention in connection with a garden syringe, I fit or provide
the lower or holding part of the barrel with a catch vessel consisting of an annular
and tubular shaped vessel or sleeve, open at its fore end and closed at its other
or inner end, and with the said open end preferably bell mouthed or flared.
This said drip-catching vessel, besides doing duty as a drip catcher also does
additional duty as a grip or holding part.
When the instrument is in use, the same is taken hold of around the drip-catcher
part by the left hand of the user and the piston is forced home through the piston
rod having the handle at its end.
Now as such instruments are usually elevated when in use some of the water
issuing from the nozzle, by capillary attraction, attaches itself to the outside of
the barrel adjacent to the nozzle and then runs down the barrel, and is intercepted
and prevented from wetting the hand by passing into the catch vessel which
surrounds trunk wise the lower end of the said barrel, hence wet is kept from
getting on to the hand of the user and running down his sleeve.
To keep the catch chamber concentric with the shank of the barrel which it
surrounds, distance pieces are placed between the one part and the other.
It will be understood that by the act of filling the syringe during which the
nozzle is presented downwards, the nozzle is emptied, and further should any water
insinuate itself through the packing of the piston and get to the back of the said
piston or plunger instead of the same being forced through the gland by the return
movement of the piston, it is delivered or forced into the drip catcher or cup by a
by-pass.
The application of my invention to other syringes and to hose branches differs
in no essential respect from its application to a garden syringe as hereinbefore
described.
Dated this 5th day of February 1894.
ALFRED JOHN PURSER,
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or Additions to Garden and like Syringes and
Hose Branches.
1, ALFRED JOHN PURSER, of the Firm of G. and W. Purser, of Palmer 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 garden and like syringes and hose branches, and has for
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page_text: its object, primarily, a means for intercepting the drippings running down the barrel
of the syringe or branch, and thereby keeping the part held by the user perfectly
dry or free from wet.
In carrying out my invention in connection with a garden syringe, I fit or provide
the lower or holding part of the barrel with a catch vessel, consisting of an annular
and tubular shaped vessel or sleeve, open at its fore end and closed at its other or
inner end, and with the said open end preferably bell mouthed or flared.
This said drip-catching vessel, besides doing duty as a drip catcher, also does
additional duty as a grip or holding part.
When the instrument is in use, the same is taken hold of around the drip-catcher
part by the left hand of the user and the piston is reciprocated within the barrel
through the piston rod, having the handle at its end.
Now as such instruments are usually elevated when in use, some of the water
issuing from the nozzle, by capillary attraction, attaches itself to the outside of
the barrel adjacent to the nozzle. The drops accumulate and then run down the
barrel, but are intercepted and prevented from wetting the hand by passing into
the catch vessel, which surrounds trunk-wise the lower end of the said barrel, hence
wet is kept from getting on to the hand of the user and running down his sleeve.
To keep the catch chamber concentric with the shank of the barrel which it
surrounds, distance pieces are placed between the one part and the other.
It will be understood that by the act of filling the syringe, during which the
nozzle is presented downwards, the nozzle is emptied, and further should any water
insinuate itself through the packing of the piston and get to the back of the said
piston or plunger, instead of the same being forced through the gland by the return
movement of the piston, it is forced or delivered or forced into the drip catcher
or cup by a by-pass.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents, partly in longitudinal section,
and partly in elevation, a garden syringe, fitted or provided with a drip-catch vessel
in accordance with my invention.
Figure 2 represents a side elevation, of the same.
Figure 3 is a cross section upon the dotted lines & Figure 1.
Figure 4 is a cross section upon the dotted lines - Figure 1, looking towards
the handle end.
Figure 5 is a cross section of Figure 1 upon the dotted line A, and Figure 6 is
a section on the dotted line B looking towards the drip-catch vessel.
Figure 7 represents a part section and part elevation of the after end of the
barrel part, with drip catch vessel, showing how the by-pass or drainage from the
back of the piston to the drip catch extends to near its mouth so that the water
collected in the cup from the outside of the barrel shall not run into the interior of
the said barrel through the drainage.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures
of the drawing.
a is the barrel part of a garden syringe, having a piston and piston rod b, b', working
and reciprocating within it, and a fixed drip-catch vessel c, whose rear end c', is closed
and the front end c², open or mouthed, connected to it, the bore of which vessel is
greater than the outside diameter of the barrel, thus forming an annular drip-catch
space c, between the walls of the one and the walls of the other, wherein water,
trickling down the outside of the barrel, is collected.
Connected with this drip-catch vessel, is a by-pass or drainage tube d, open at
its after end d¹, to the rear inside end of the barrel a, and also open at its fore
end d², which is extended forwardly into the drip catch vessel to near its mouth end,
as best seen in Figure 7.
The fore end of the barrel is fitted either with a jet nozzle e, or a spray nozzle f,
whilst the back end of the barrel has a cap g, provided, if necessary, with a stuffing
box, whilst the piston rod b', has a handle h, for the working of the piston.
Instead of the drip vessel being made fast to the barrel, it may be made loose,
and have its open back end lined with rubber or packing, such as represented in

page_text: Figure 8, in which c is the loose vessel, having an open mouth c², and an open after
end c', lined with rubber or the like c*, cemented or otherwise affixed, for making
the end water tight when slipped onto the barrel of a syringe.
The application of my invention to other syringes and to hose branches differs
in no essential respect from its application to a garden syringe as herein before
described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
First. In syringes and hose branches, fitting or providing the same with a fixed
or loose drip-catch vessel, substantially as described and set forth.
Secondly. In garden and other syringes as described, providing the same with
by-passes or drainage tubes, directed forward from rear interior of the barrel to the
outside or exterior thereof, substantially as and for the purpose as, described aud
set forth.
Dated this 5th dov of October 1804
ALFRED JOHN PURSER,
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant