IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR WATERING LAWNS AND OTHER LIKE PURPOSES
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to David McMechan, of Wire Works Mill, Strangeways,
Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Manufacturer and Commission Mer-
chant, for the Invention of "IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR WATERING LAWNS
AND OTHER LIKE PURPOSES."
Sealed the 29th September 1877, and dated the 9th July-1877.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said David McMechan at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 9th July 1877...
David M MECHAN, of Wire-Works Mill, Strangeways, Manchester, inr the County
of Lancaster, Manufacturer and Commission Merchant. IMPROVED APPARATUS
FOR WATERING LAWNS AND OTHER LIKE PURPOSES."
This Invention is designed more especially to facilitate the watering of lawns,
but the improved apparatus is applicable also for spreading liquid manure and for
analogous purposes.
I construct a carriage with a cradle or holder arranged to receive and carry a
transverse tubular perforated vessel, having its ends wholly or partially closed, and
provided midway between its extremities, or thereabouts, with a junction piece or
coupling arrangement for the attachment of a hose in communication with a reser-
voir, main, or other source of supply.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said David McMechan in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 3rd December
1877.
DAVID MCMECHAN, of Wire Works Mill, Strangeways, Manchester, in the County
of Lancaster, Manufacturer and Commission Merchant. "IMPROVED APPARATUS
FOR WATERING LAWNS AND OTHER LIKE PURPOSES."
This Invention is designed more especially to facilitate the watering of lawns, but
the improved apparatus applicable also for spreading liquid manure, and for
analogous purposes.
Fig. 1 of the Drawings is a side view; Fig. 2, a view at right angles to Fig. 1;
and Fig. 3, a plan of my improved apparatus.
a is a carriage, the parts of which form a cradle or holder to receive and carry
the transverse tubular perforated vessel c.
The ends of this vessel are wholly or
partially closed, and midway between its extremities (or thereabout) the vessel is
provided with a junction piece, or coupling arrangement d, for the attachment of a
hose, whose other end is in communication with a reservoir, main, or other source of
supply; e is a cock for turning on and off the supply to the hose. Liquid being
supplied through the hose will be discharged in jets through the perforations ƒ of
the tubular vessel.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and explained the manner
of carrying it into practical effect, I hereby declare that what I consider to be novel
and original, and therefore claim as the Invention secured to ine under the Letters
Patent herein-before in part recited is, the combination of parts constituting the
improved apparatus constructed, arranged, and operating as herein-before described
and shown in the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, for watering lawns and other
like purposes.
In witness whereof, I, the said David McMechan have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of November, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.
DAVID M'MECHAN. (L.S.)