Improvements in Hose Directors or Terminals for Hose Pipes.
Year: 1888

page_text: Improvements in Hose Directors or Terminals for Hose Pipes.
I JAMES HENRY STONE trading as Benton & Stone of St. Pauls Square, Birmingham,
Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-
These improvements have for their object the construction of a hose director or
terminal for hose pipes in which the jet may be changed at will say for instance from a
rose-jet to a single jet without the employment of a cock or valve requiring as here-
tofore to be operated by the user and whereby great simplicity of parts and cheapness
of first cost are obtained.
On the accompanying drawing Fig. 1. represents an exterior view of so much of a
hose director as is necessary to illustrate my improvements and shewing the single jet
in position and Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the same shewing the jet or cap
partially screwed on in accordance with my invention.
Figs. 3 and 4 represent similar views respectively of the same apparatus but with a
rose jet substituted for the single jet.
In performing my invention I construct the extremity of the hose director or
terminal a (which is attached in the usual manner to the end of the length of hose
pipe) with a valve box band with a valve seating c. This valve seating is con-centric
with the central axis of the apparatus and is fitted with a metal, india-rubber or other
suitable ball valve d as illustrated and which valve closes self actingly by the pressure
of the water. I form the usual screw thread e upon the outside of my improved
valve box screwed to receive the capf which as illustrated in Figs. 1, and 2, consists
of a combined cap and single orifice g, to throw a single jet of water and as
illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4 the cap f is perforated with a series of holes to form a
rose jet.
The inside of the cap fin both cases is provided with a central stud / which is of
sufficient length to push open the ball valve d but only as the cap is screwed home and
approaches the ordinary leather washer i. By reference to Figs. 2 and 4 it will be
observed that the stud h has no effect upon the ball valve until the cap f is sufficiently
supported by the screw thread.

page_text: In the case of the single jet the stud his hollow and formed with side openings to
permit the free passage of the water to the single jet orifice g.
In this manner I construct a hose director or terminal in which the valve closes
self-actingly against its seating as the cap is unscrewed and thus I am enabled to
remove one cap and to substitute another at will and to change the jets without turning
off the water supply or operating any cock or valve by hand.
Although I prefer to employ a ball valve as hereinbefore described it will be obvious
that other arrangements of self-closing valves may be substituted to be similarly
operated by the screwing on of the cap.
Having thus 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 -
1st. The improvements in hose directors or terminals for hose pipes substantially as
hereinbefore described.
2nd. In a hose director or terminal for hose pipes the employment of a self-closing
valve when mounted and operated substantially as and for the purposes herein before
described and illustrated on the accompanying drawing.
3rd. In a hose director or terminal for hose pipes the combination of the valve box,
self-closing valve and screwed cap with central projecting stud substantially as
and for the purposes herein before described and illustrated on the accompanying
drawing.
Dated this 20th 1
1000