New or Improved Water Sprinkler.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Dec., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 5th June, 1889-Accepted, 13th July, 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Water Sprinkler.
HENRY WILLIAM HANDCOCK 28 Martins Lane London E.C. Electrician do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists in the construction of an Automatic Water Sprinkler and
is carried out as follows.
A Pedestal or base of metal is provided supporting an ☐ joint the water when
a hose is attached to the elbow enters same and ascending vertically through the
outlet attached to which is a flexible indiarubber tube which is weighted at its end
and is free to move in any direction. The force of the water ascending through
the vertical outlet & thence through the flexible tube which owing to its flexibility
creates a peculiar movement and consequently sprinkles or distributes the water
in all directions.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Water Sprinkler.
I, HENRY WILLIAM HANDCOCK, of "Lamorna " Blyth Road, Bromley, Kent,
Electrician, 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 statenient
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This invention relates to a novel construction, or arrangement, of apparatus, termed
a water sprinkler, for temporarilly placing, or affixing on Lawns over Shrubs or Plants
or on Flower beds for effectually spraying water thereon.
The apparatus consists, as at Figure 1 of the annexed drawings, of an upright, A,
for pushing into the ground, or it is provided with a base plate for lodging on the
ground. The upper part of the upright has at right angles, a nozzle, B, for the
connection of a flexible hose, for leading the water from a source of supply,
such as a cistern placed at a height for pressure. The nozzle B is of three
diameters a, b, c, to accommodate a hose of say inch, inch, or inch. This nozzle
is in combination with an uptake or branch C, on the end of which, is a light india
rubber tube, D, whose end hangs freely to play about, in all and any direction,
due to the passage of water through it, and of a weight or chain E suspended
from said free end F. The outlet of the light tube, D, is slightly contracted to thin
the water into sheet form, the wabbling of the light tube breaking the water up into
fine spray for distributing it.
Figure 2 illustrates the apparatus in action.
The free end of the light tube, may have a V shaped ferrule in or on it, to serve as
the weight, and the limit of wabbling motion of the light tube, can be regulated by a
wire ring loosely encircling it, the wire being attached to the nozzle, B, or the
branch C.
By the use of this sprinkler, each blade of grass will be covered by water, like as
from fine rain. The action of the sprinkler is most erratic and amusing, it sprinkles
very evenly and sends the water in every direction, covering the whole of the surface
within its range, and if the chain or weight be slipped down to the base of the rubber
tube D the contracted or ferruled end will permit of a fan shaped spray of water
being directed to any desired or given position.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
.
The automatic distributing action water sprinkler, or sprayer, composed of a light
india rubber tube, having a weight at its free end and affixable to a water supply pipe,
or branch, as, and for the purpose explained, with reference to Figure 1 of the annexed
drawings.
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CC1000
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London, Agent for the said H. W. Handcock.