A NEW OR IMPROVED INSTRUMENT OR INSTRUMENTS FOR DIRECTING AND DELIVERING LIQUIDS FROM HOSE OR TUBES
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Tweeddale, residing at Number Eight,
McLaren Terrace, Edinburgh, Brass Finisher, for the Invention of
"A NEW OR IMPROVED INSTRUMENT OR INSTRUMENTS FOR DIRECTING AND
DELIVERING LIQUIDS FROM HOSE OR TUBES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Tweeddale at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 21st July 1875.
I, JAMES TWEEDDALE, residing at Number Eight, McLaren Terrace,
Edinburgh, Brass Finisher, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED INSTRUMENT OR INSTRUMENTS FOR
DIRECTING AND DELIVERING LIQUIDS FROM HOSE OR TUBES," to be as follows :-
This said Invention has reference to a new or improved construction
of metallic nozzle or nozzle piece, consisting of a metal rose and a single

page_text: nozzle, and a two-way tap combined for giving either a liquid spray or a
solid jet for garden and other hose, tubes, or pipes, and which is more
simple in construction and efficient in action than those heretofore in
use. And the nature and novelty of this Invention consist in forming
and fixing the key of the tap (preferably with its wide end outwards),
on the end of and in a line with the outlet conducting tube, and with a
central nozzle piece at its outer end, and two lateral holes at a little
distance apart near the middle on one side with a division or web
between them, the inner one leading into the supply tube, and the other
one to the central outer nozzle. The outer hollow cock or case part
of the tap is plain and fitted with a ground part over the key between
and beyond the said lateral holes, with no lateral outlet branches but
only a rose or disc-like chamber at its extreme end beyond the outer
end of the key, with the rose or perforated cap screwed on its outer rim,
and the central single nozzle projecting out through the middle of the
domed rose cap, preferably with an india-rubber washer between them,
so that when this cap is screwed up it tightens the tap and key to its
outer case, which has on opposite sides two small close ducts or pockets,
the one being formed with an inner opening opposite or over the lower
hole in the key, and led up to open into the rose chamber at the outer
end on one side, while the other port in the case when turned round
opposite the two holes in the key opens into both, and leads the liquid
from the lower one into the upper one out through the central nozzle in
a solid jet through the centre of the rose. The said turning of the outer
caso to either of these two positions to give the rose or spray jet or the
central solid jet respectively at the same time shuts off the other, a stop
pin as in other taps determining the exact extreme position in either
direction, while the middle position shuts off both the rose and solid jet
by closing the holes in the key and ports in the case

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said James Tweeddale in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 15th January 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
TWEEDDALE, residing at Number Eight, McLaren Terrace, Edinburgh,
Brass Finisher, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent bearing date the Twenty-first day of July, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs, and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said James Tweeddale, Her
special licence that I, the said James Tweeddale, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said James
Tweeddalo, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Ohannel Islands, and Isle of Man, an In-
vention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED INSTRUMENT OR INSTRUMENTS FOR DIRECTING
AND DELIVERING LIQUIDS FROM HOSE OR TUBES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said James Tweeddale, my executors or admini-
strators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of
their hands and seals, 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 dato
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Tweeddale, 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 in writing, reference being had to the
several Figures on the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, which I have
hereunto appended for the purpose of showing the best modes and means
I am at present aware of for performing my said Invention or putting
it into effect or practice, the same letters of reference being used toi
indicate the same parts in all the Figures where shown?.

page_text: Figures 1 and 2 are respectively a side elevation and corresponding
longitudinal section, Figures 3 and 4 are end views, one with and the
other without the rose cap b, and Figure 5 is a transverse section taken
on the line 1
1 in Figure 2, all respectively of one modification or
construction of a new or improved jet director for delivering or dis-
charging liquids from hose or tubes in accordance with and illustrative
of my said Invention.
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My said Invention has reference to a new or improved construction of
metallic nozzle or nozzle piece consisting of a new or improved com-
bination of a metal rose b, a single nozzle a, and a two-way tap A, B, for
giving a spray or a solid unbroken jet of water or other liquid from
-garden-and-other-hose, tubes, -or-pipes-to-which-it-is-or-may-be-attached,.
and which is more simple in construction and efficient in action than
the nozzles or liquid jet directors heretofore in usc. And the nature,
novelty, and mode of carrying out my said Invention consist all as
follows:-In forming and fixing the plug or key part A of the tap A, B,
(B being the outer case) on the end of and in a line with the outlet
conducting tube C, which is attached to the hose or other liquid con-
ducting tubing, as indicated in red lines at C³, and preferably having
the wide end of the key placed outwards, and with a central nozzle
piece a screwed or otherwise attached or formed at its outer end, and
having two lateral holes c¹, c", at a little distance apart near the middle
on one side close to a division or wob c between them, the first or inner
one c¹ leading from the supply tube C, and the other one c" leading to
the central outer nozzle a direct, which gives the solid or unbroken jet
when the liquid is admitted thereto. The outer hollow case or cock
part B of the tap A, B, is plain and filled with a ground part over the
key A between and beyond the said lateral holes c¹, c¹¹, without the
ordinary lateral outlet branches, but instead has only a cap or disc-like
chamber B', having a rose piece 6 with a great number of small holes
screwed or fitted at its extreme end beyond the outer end of the key A,
and which gives the rose or spray jet when the liquid is admitted
thereto The central single nozzle a projects out through the middle of
the domed rose cap b, preferably with an india-rubber and leather or
other equivalent elastic washer a¹ between them, so that when this cap b
is screwed up it tightens the ground parts of the case B and key A of
the tap towards each other On opposite sides of the case B two small
close ducts or pockets *, *, are formed, the one e* being formed with

page_text: an inner opening c² opposite or over the lower holo c¹ in the key A, and
led up the pocket c* to the hole c³, opening into the hole c¹¹ of the key
so as to lead the liquid from the stem C, and lower hole c³, into the
upper part c", out through the central nozzle a in a solid or unbroken
jet through the centre of the rose b, as shown in Figures 1 and 2. Then
as shown in the section Figure 2A when the outer case B of the tap is
turned half round, so that the hole c¹ of the key A is opposite the hole
b¹ of the pocket 6*, then the passage c*, c², c³, is shut, and the other 6*
opened, so that the liquid is conveyed from the tube C to the outer end
of the apparatus or compound nozzle piece so as to deliver the water or
other liquid supplied to it in a spray as from the rose of an ordinary
watering can The said turning of the outer case B to either of these
two positions, shown in Figures 2A and 2, gives the rose or spray jet or
the central solid jet of liquid respectively, and at the same time shuts
off the other. A stop pin all is provided (as in other taps) attached to
the outer end of the key A with two suitable stops 1 and 2 on the case
B, shown particularly in Figure 4, which determines the exact extreme
position in cither direction to which the case B has to be turned to give
the solid or spray Jet respectively, while the middle position shuts off
the entrances to the pockets c* and 6*, and the rose and the solid jet
by closing the holes c¹, c¹¹, in the key A. as well as b¹ in the caso B, and
the arrows indicate the flow of the liquid and the respective jets in both
Figures 2 and 2 A.
Having now described the nature and mode of carrying my said
Invention into practice, I havo to state that I do not confine myself to
the precise details herein described or delineated, neither on the other
hand do I desire to claim all the parts of liquid nozzles or directors
which I have had occasion to describe and show in the accompanying
Drawings, except in combination with or as forming part of my said
Invention or improvements herein specified; but what I consider novel
and original, and therefore claim as the Invention secured to me by the
herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is,-
First. The general construction and use of a nozzle piece or
"director" for producing or controlling the emission of a spray, or an
unbroken jet of liquid from the hose or other pipes to which it is
attached, all substantially as herein described in reference to and shown
in the accompanying Drawings or any mere modification thereof.

page_text: Second. The forming of a nozzle piece or "director" with a longi-
tudinal tap and central nozzle, and with an outer loose turning case and
rose for producing a solid central jet or a spray jet of liquid from hose or
other pipes, all substantially as herein described in reference to and
shown in the accompanying Drawings or any mere modification thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Tweeddale, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.
Witness,
ANDREW GRIEVE,
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-6, Gardner's Crescent,
Edinburgh.
JAMES TWEEDDALE. (L.S.)