IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF DIRECTING STREAMS OF WATER EMPLOYED IN EXTINGUISHING CONFLAGRA- APPARATUSNEC
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Charlton, of Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Mariner, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD
OF DIRECTING STREAMS OF WATER EMPLOYED IN EXTINGUISHING CONFLAGRA-
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Charlton at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 12th
January 1861.
I, JOSEPH CHARLTON, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Mariner,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE METHOD OF DIRECTING THE STREAMS OF WATER EMPLOYED IN EXTINGUISHING
CONPLAGRATIONS, AND IN APPARATUS CONNECTED THEREWITH," to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to the supporting by artificial or mechanical means
of the delivery tube or "nozzle" which is attached to the hose of fire-engines
"street mains," and from which the water issues in a stream for the
extinguishing of fire, instead of such tube being held by a "fireman
attendant, and requiring his constant presence in places of imminent danger.
My improvement consists in the employment of three or more legs or
supports uniting at their upper extremities in a hinged ring or collar into
which the delivery tube or nozzle is placed, so that by the adjustment of the
legs or supports the stream of water may be directed upon any required part
of the burning structure, and be left "in play " in positions where a man could
not remain. A second support may also be used having a forked foot and a
bearing at the top for the reception of the heavy end of the delivery pipe.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph Charlton in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 12th
July 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPU
CHARLTON, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Mariner, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Joseph Charlton, Her special license that I, the said Joseph Charlton, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph
Charlton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
METHOD OF DIRECTING STREAMS OF WATER EMPLOYED IN EXTINGUISHING CONPLA-
GRATIONS, AND IN APPARATUS CONNECTED THEREWITH," upon the condition, amongst
others, that I, the said Joseph Charlton, by an instrument in writing under
my hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Charlton, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement and accompanying Drawings (that is to say) :-
My Invention relates to the supporting by artificial or mechanical means of
the delivery tube or "nozzle" which is attached to the hose of fire engines or
"street mains," and from which the water issues in a stream for the
extinguishing of fire, instead of such tube being held by a "fireman" or
attendant, and requiring his constant presence in places of imminent danger.
My improvement consists in the employment of three or more legs or
supports uniting at their upper extremities in a hinged ring or collar into which
the delivery tube or "nozzle" is placed, so that by the adjustment of the legs
or supports the stream of water may be directed upon any required part of the

page_text: burning structure, and be left "in play" in positions where a man could not
remain. A second support may also be used having a forked foot and a
bearing at the top for the reception of the heavy end of the delivery pipe.
In order that the Invention may be better understood and explained in
detail, I have hereunto attached a Sheet of Drawings made upon a scale of
about two inches to the foot, and having similar letters of reference marked
upon corresponding parts of the apparatus.
Fig. 1 is a side view of the "nozzle" and hose, and supports for holding the
same, and Fig. 2 is a front view of the same.
In Fig. 1, a, a, are the legs or supports hinged together at their upper
extremities where a hinged bearing or clasp b is arranged, in which the
"nozzle" c, having a collar upon it, is secured, the clasp 6 being provided with
an universal joint in order to allow of the "nozzle" being turned in any
direction. The nozzle is governed and moved by the chains or cords d, d,
passing over the pulleys in the legs or supports a, a, so that the fireman or
attendants may bave control over the stream of water issuing therefrom whilst
standing at a distance and out of danger. The heavy or bulky end of the
"nozzle" attached to the hose is supported by means of the extra lege, which
is forked at the foot and suitably shaped to receive the cylindrical form of the
"nozzle," which is thus retained in a required position for any length of time
that the water may be required to be directed upon one place, or the streami
may be turned to any point by means of the ropes or chains and pulleys.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, together with the
method of carrying the same into practical effect, I wish it to be distinctly
understood that I claim supporting the "nozzle or delivery tube attached to
the hose from whence water issues by artificial or mechanical means, such as by
means of the legs or supports for the purpose of obviating the necessity of the
immediate attention of a fireman in positions of danger, as herein-before
described, set forth, and fully illustrated in the Drawings attached.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Charlton, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eleventh day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
JOSEPH CHARLTON. (L.S.)