Improved Means for Extinguishing Fires in Mills and other places.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Jan., 1893-Accepted, 18th Feb.. 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Extinguishing Fires in Mills and
other places.
I JOSIAH CLEGG of 90 High Street Lees near Oldham in the County of
Lancaster, Milliner and Draper, 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 :-
The object of this invention is to provide a simple and ready means of extin-
guishing fires in spinning rooms, weaving sheds and similar buildings; and my
invention will be readily understood from the following description on reference to
the accompanying sheet of drawings.
Fig. 1 is a front elevation of one of the appliances hereafter described which I
propose to employ in carrying my invention into practice the door being shown:
partly broken away.
Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof partly in section and Fig. 3 a plan view
thereof.
In applying my invention to mule rooms for example I carry a water pipe leading
from any convenient supply of water across the centre of the room or say over the
headstocks of the mules and I fix the said pipe at a convenient distance above the
mules; to this water pipe above each mule alley I connect a short branch pipe
(shown at a on the drawings) provided with a suitable cock or tap b turned on or off
by a lever b', and to the end of this branch pipe a I attach a box c, preferably
cylindrical as shown, which is suspended by the pipe a in such a manner that it
can swivel thereon so as to turn its front or door d towards any part of the
room.
The door dis hinged at the top as shewn at d* so that it will when let down
remain closed and the lever 6' of the tap or cock b is provided with a rod 6ª which
hangs down as shewn in front of the said door d and is passed through a loop d' on
the box c so as to lock the door.
The box c is provided with a projection or support c* upon which I hang a coil
of suitable hose pipe e of sufficient length to reach to the mule below and also those
adjacent to the latter.
One end of the hose pipe e is connected to the end of the branch pipe a and the
other end is provided with a suitable water jet or rose f..
Should a fire break out at any one mule the rod 6 is disengaged from the loop d'
slightly opening the tap b the door d is opened and the hose pipe e is run off the
projection c* sufficiently to bring the jet or rose f to the point required for the water
to reach the fire and it will be seen that by arranging a series of these boxes across
the room as above described at least three roses can be brought to play upon a fire
in any one mule simultaneously.
When the fire is extinguished the water is turned off again and the hose pipe e
is coiled up and replaced in the box r the door of which is closed and the lever b'
replaced.
In order to facilitate the coiling of the hose pipe, I propose to provide a hook or
an eye el near the jet or rose f which engages in a hook e or an eye attached to the
pipe e at such a distance from the end as to form the first loop of a coil of suitable
diameter to insert into the box c. (See Fig. 1.)
The boxes may be connected to the water pipes which at present are fitted with
automatic sprinklers some of which may be replaced thereby.
The boxes may be connected to pipes placed below the flooring in which case
they will not swivel but will merely be fixed with their doors uppermost.
It will be seen from the above description that by this invention any fire that

page_text: occurs during working hours in mills, workshops warehouses or other places can
be promptly and efficiently extinguished with the smallest amount of damage by
water.
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:
1. The improved means for extinguishing fires in mills and other places substan-
tially as hereinbefore described.
2. The combination of a box containing a coil of hose piping connected to a
water pipe and suspended in the said box, which is capable of swivelling upon the
end of the said water pipe substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore
described, and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.