AN IMPROVED HYDRAULIC APPARATUS FOR WATERING STREETS, ROADS, GARDENS, AND PLACES, EXTINGUISHING FIRES, ATTACHING TO FIRE ENGINES, AND SIMILAR OR ANALOGOUS PURPOSES
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Paget Gillam Headly, of the Firm of
E. Headly and Son, of Cambridge, in the County of Cambridge,
Agricultural Implement Makers, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
HYDRAULIC APPARATUS FOR WATERING STREETS, ROADS, GARDENS, AND
PLACES, EXTINGUISHING FIRES, ATTACHING TO FIRE ENGINES, AND
SIMILAR OR ANALOGOUS PURPOSES."
Sealed the 9th February 1869, and dated the 12th August 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Paget Gillam
Headly at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 12th August 1868.
I, EDWARD PAGET GILLAM HEADLY, of the Firm of E. Headly and
Son, of Cambridge, in the County of Cambridge, Agricultural Implement
Makers, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN
IMPROVED HYDRAULIC APPARATUS FOR WATERING STREETS, ROADS, GARDENS, AND
OTHER PLACES, EXTINGUISHING FIRES, ATTACHING TO FIRE ENGINES, AND OTHER
SIMILAR OR ANALOGOUS PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
Upon a suitable locomotive frame to be, propelled by hand or other-
wise I mount a windlass or drum, the axis of which I make hollow;
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page_text: upon this drum I wind any required length of flexible tube or pipe, one
end of which I connect with the hollow axis of the drum upon which it
is wound, and the free end of which tube or pipe I fit with suitable con-
nections for attaching it to hydrants or standards supplying water under
pressure. To the end or ends of the hollow axis or drum 1 attach
I
suitable distributing media. The axis is fitted with a handle for winding
the pipe, which runs off as the frame is moved on again when required.
The mode of using the apparatus is as follows:-The free end of the
flexible pipe being connected to the hydrant or standard, the frame,
windlass, and coil of pipe are moved as required to a greater or less
distance, and distribute the water as the apparatus travels, no loco-
motive tank or other water container being necessary.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Edward Paget Gillam Headly in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 12th February 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
PAGET GILLAM HEADLY, of the Firm of E. Headly and Son, of
Cambridge, Agricultural Implement Makers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Edward Paget Gillam Headly, Her special
licence that I, the said Edward Paget Gillam Headly, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Edward Paget
Gillam Headly, my executors, administrators, and assigus, 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 Isle of Man,
Invention for "AN IMPROVED HYDRAULIC APPARATUS FOR WATERING
STREETS, ROADS, GARDENS, AND OTHER PLACES, EXTINGUISHING FIRES, ATTACHING
TO FIRE ENGINES, AND OTHER SIMILAR OR ANALOGOUS PURPOSES,"
upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Edward Paget Gillam
Headly, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
an

page_text: under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inventiou, 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 Edward Paget Gillam Headly, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
Upon a suitable locomotive frame, to be propelled by hand or
otherwise, I mount a windlass or drum the axis of which I make
hollow; upon this drum I wind any required length of flexible tube or
pipe, one end of which 1 connect with the hollow axis of the drum
upon which it is wound, and the free end of which tube or pipe I fit
with suitable connections for attaching it to hydrants or standards
supplying water under pressure. To the end or ends of the hollow
axis of the drum I attach suitable distributing media. The axis is
fitted with a handle for winding the pipe which runs off as the frame is
moved on again when required.
The mode of using the apparatus is as follows:-The free end of the
flexible pipe being connected to the hydrant or standard, the frame,
windlass, and coil of pipe are moved as required to a greater or less
distance and distribute the water as the apparatus travels, no
locomotive tank or other water container being necessary.
The accompanying Drawing is intended to illustrate the general forni
and mode of constructing and fitting the apparatus as herein-before
described. The details may be modified according to the different
purposes for which the machines are required.
EXPLANATION OF THE DRAWING.
Fig. is a side elevation of a machine or apparatus intended to be
used in lieu of an ordinary watering cart for watering streets, roads,
gardens, and the like; it may also be used for distributing liquids, irri-
gation, and other like purposes where the liquid to be so distributed can
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page_text: a is a rotating drum with side flanges or shields, upon the barrel or
axis of which one or more coils of jointed or flexible pipe, hose, or india-
rubber tube or wound; b, a light frame, upon which the drum a is
mounted; c, bearing and travelling wheels, upon which the apparatus or
imachine is supported and propelled; d, a shaft, terminating in a cross-
head d¹, and resting upon the leg d², by which the said machine or
apparatus is steered and moved; e, a hollow axis or shaft with which the
drum rotates; f, a stuffing box in which the hollow shaft e terminates
at one or both sides of the frame, and through which there is an open
waterway; g, a truncated branch or elbow fitted to the stuffing box;
h, a service pipe; i, a flexible distributing pipe, fitted with a nozzle i¹
and stop-cock 2; j, jointed, flexible, or other supply pipe or tube through
which the water or liquid is supplied, passes, and is distributed; k, a
standard, hydrant, or other media supplying the water or liquid under
pressure to the apparatus; the supply pipe on the latter being provided
with and connected thereto by the union joint ;, a pulley fixed to
the drum or its axis; m, a similar pulley fixed to a cross shaft u,
connected or in gear with the pulley by the band or cord m³, and
either turned by hand, by means of the lever and handle o, or turned as
the machine moves by the pulley on the wheel c, being connected
therewith by the band or cord p. In lieu of the distributing pipe i and
nozzle before mentioned, the apparatus may be fitted with the elbow,
and transverse perforated pipes; in which case t is a stop-cock opened
and closed by the lever and rod 1, the latter being connected to a
lever v, formed with a hook v¹, which drops over a stud or into an eye w
for holding it in position when the stop cock is closed. The bearing
of the shaft is made to slide, and is fitted with a butting spring or
screw in order to regulate the "slack" of the bands m¹ and p as required
to compensate the lap or increasing or decreasing diameter of the coils
of pipe or tube upon the drum, as their number varies as the said pipe
or tube is wound up or run off. a, a, are hand spokes fixed to the
shields of the drum for turning it by hand independent of the mechanism
just described, when required. These spokes may be fixed to the sole,
and so take the place of the shields for economy when necessary.
Another mode of giving motion to the drum which I propose to adopt
is shewn at Fig. 2, and consists in fitting the axis of the travelling
wheels with a common chain pulley d, and the axis of the drum with
a ratchet pulley connecting the said pulleys by the endless chain f

page_text: The ratchet pulley e provides for the "slip" required as the number of
coils increase upon the drum; the mode of fitting up this pulley is
shewn in detail at Figs. 3, 4, and 5, where g is the chain wheel fixed
to a short hollow shaft h, at the back of this wheel g, and fixed to the
shaft is another wheel i, held in position by the pawl j, but allowed
to slip on its axis by the yielding of the spring k; the power of which
spring is regulated by a set screw l.
fitted with the
Fig. 5 shews the reverse side of the wheel e, which is
two pawls m, m, held in position by the springs n, n. o is a ratchet
wheel made fast to the hollow axis of the drum, into the teeth of which
wheel the pawls m, m, take as the drum rotates in the direction shewn
by the arrow, and prevents it from turning in that direction except with
the axis, but allows it to turn independently of the axis in the opposite
direction.
Having thus described the nature and object of my said. Invention,
and illustrated the mode of carrying the same into effect in practice, I
hereby further declare that what I desire to secure by the before-men-
tioned in part recited Letters Patent, and claim, but without restricting
myself thereto absolutely is,-
First. The free running drum, or drum with an independent motion,
mounted upon a locomotive frame, and fitted with one or more coils of
jointed or flexible pipe, hose, or tube in connection with a hollow axis of
such drum, and fitted with flexible and other distributors for discharging
and distributing water or other liquid for watering streets, roads,
gardens, and other places, extinguishing fires, attaching to fire engines,
and other similar or analogous purposes.
Secondly. The combination of the axis of the drum with the axis of
the bearing wheels.
Thirdly. The modes of turning the drum as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Paget Gillam Headley, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of January,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
EDWARD PAGET GILLAM HEADLEY. (L.B.)