Improvements in or relating to Watering and similar Devices applicable in Greenhouses and other Places.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Dec., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 18th Oct., 1893-Accepted, 18th Nov., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Watering and similar Devices
applicable in Greenhouses and other Places.
I, WILLIAM ADOLPHUS FREDERICK BATEMAN, Surgeon, of Bridge House,
Richmond, in the County of Surrey, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows :-
This invention may be employed in greenhouses and for sprinkling or spraying
trees plants and so forth, but is particularly designed for the watering of plants
upon shelves which are too high up to be conveniently got at with an ordinary
watering pot.
The invention consists of a hollow stem or tube of suitable length and size and
preferably light enough to be conveniently carried in one hand, this may be made
of bamboo or any other suitable cane or metal or other tubing and may if desired, be
arranged telescopically or otherwise in lengths or may be a single length. The
length may vary according to circumstances but conveniently I find say 6 or 7 feet
a suitable length. The upper end may be turned over in a convenient curve and
may carry a rose, nozzle or the like, in such a position as to direct the jet or spray
upon the plant or into the flower-pot or as may be required.
At the lower end this apparatus may if desired, be provided with any suitable
handle or other holding device so that a convenient grip may be obtained; it may
also be connected preferably by a flexible tube with a pail, well or other supply of
the liquid whether simple water, liquid manure, plant dressing or the like.
In any suitable place say conveniently within the length of the flexible portion
of the apparatus, I provide a flexible bulb, or other device, for causing the flow of
the water in a manner that will be well understood. The bulb or equivalent is
provided with suitable valves and there may be if desired, one or more foot valves
either in the suction portion of the pipe or at the bottom of the main tube of the
apparatus, the object being that by operating this pumping device this fluid may be
delivered through the tube and out at the nozzle or rose.
I prefer to make this apparatus light, portable and handy so that it may be held
in one hand and operated by the other, but it will be understood that I
may if
desired fit it with any suitable stand or other supporting device (I might for example
secure it in a convenient position in the greenhouse, and so that I could move it
about to reach the required parts) and instead of operating the pump by hand I
may do it by foot. Or 1 may adapt the stand to be held by the operator standing
upon it while he holds the main tube with the one hand and operates an ordinary
pump with the other.
Dated this 20th day of December 1892.
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Of London, Liverpool, Manchester, and Nottingham.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Watering and similar Devices
applicable in Greenhouses and other Places.
I, WILLIAM ADOLPHUS FREDERICK BATEMAN, Surgeon, of Bridge House,
Richmond, in the County of Surrey, 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:-
This invention may be employed in greenhouses and for sprinkling or spraying

page_text: trees plants and so forth, but is particularly designed for the watering of plants
upon shelves which are too high up to be conveniently got at with an ordinary
watering pot or flexible pipe which is not provided with a rigid portion by which
the rose or jet can be projected to the required place.
The invention as shown in the accompanying drawing consists of a hollow stem
or tube A A' A' of suitable length and size and preferably light enough to be
conveniently carried in one band; this may be made of bamboo or any other
suitable cane or metal or other tubing and may if desired, be arranged telescopically
or otherwise in lengths or may be a single length. The tube A A'A' shown in
the drawing is composed of three separable parts, B representing the joints at
which these parts are screwed or otherwise connected together. The part A
preferably consists of a metal tube (shown in dotted lines) enclosed within a
bamboo or other casing A³. The part A has a union joint C at its lower end so
that it may be connected to or disconnected from the flexible tube D. The length
may vary according to circumstances but conveniently I find say 6 or 7 feet a
suitable length, but this in the example illustrated in the drawing may be decreased
or increased by connecting A directly to A or inserting one or more parts A¹
between A and A. The upper end of A³ may be turned over in a convenient
curve as at A and may carry a rose nozzle or the like E, in such a position
as to direct the jet or spray upon the plant or into the flower-pot) or as may be
required.
At the lower end this apparatus may if desired, be provided with any suitable
handle or other holding device so that a convenient grip may be obtained the
bamboo casing A³ fulfils this function in the example illustrated; it may also be
connected preferably by the beforementioned flexible tube D with a pail, well or
other supply F of the liquid whether simple water, liquid manure, plant dressing or
the like.
In any suitable place say conveniently within the length of the flexible portion D
of the apparatus, I provide a flexible bulb, or other device G, for causing the flow
of the water in a manner that will be well understood. The bulb or equivalent G
is provided with a suitable valve D' and there may be if desired, one or more foot
valves D' either in the suction portion of the pipe or at the bottom of the tube A,
the object being that by operating this pumping device the fluid may be delivered
through the tube and out at the nozzle or rose.
I prefer to make this apparatus light, portable and handy so that it may be held
in one hand and operated by the other, but it will be understood that I may if
desired fit it with any suitable stand or other supporting device (I might for
example secure it in a convenient position in the greenhouse, and so that I could
move it about to reach the required parts) and instead of operating the pump by
hand I may do it by foot. Or I may adapt the stand to be held by the operator
standing upon it while he holds the main tube with the one hand and operates an
ordinary pump with the other.
When this device is fed by an ordinary garden engine or pump I connect it by a
flexible pipe so that the operator can move it about as required, and, by means of
the stalk or stem, direct the rose or jet as he pleases.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood
that I am aware that hose pipes, garden engines, pumps and syringes are commonly
made with rigid nozzles, but where these are connected with flexible pipes as in the
case of the hose pipes or pumps they are quite short so that the nozzle itself is
practically held in the hand and will not reach up to a high shelf for instance
unless the hand of the operator goes too, while in the case of garden engines the
nozzle is connected to a fixed pipe, but can be turned about to direct the jet. In
my invention the rose or jet is carried upon a long rigid stem or stalk flexibly
connected with the water supply so that the jet can be applied in inaccessible
or distant places without requiring the hand of the operator to come near the

page_text: nozzle and the range of the operator from a fixed point is thus enormously
increased. What I claim is :-
1. An apparatus for supplying liquid to plants out of reach comprising a rigid
hollow stalk or stem with a rose or jet at one end and a flexible connection at the
other for supplying the water to the stalk substantially as described..
2. In an apparatus for supplying liquid to plants out of reach the combination
with a rigid hollow stalk or stem having a rose or jet at one end of a hand pumping
device adapted to be worked by the operator at or connected with the other end
substantially as described.
3. The combination and arrangement of parts constituting the complete apparatus
for supplying liquid to plants out of reach substantially as described and illustrated
in the accompanying drawing.
Dated this Sixteenth day of October 1800.
W. A. F. BATEMAN.
W. P. Thompson & Boult,
Agents for the Applicant.