A New or Improved Combined Sprayer, Sprinkler, and Jet for Horticultural and other Purposes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Mar., 1894-Accepted, 28th Apr., 1804
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Combined Sprayer, Sprinkler, and Jet for
Horticultural and other Purposes.
I, WILLIAM CRAWFORD BURT of No. 27 Lombard Street, in the City of
London, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention (a communi-
cation to me from abroad by Alexander Burt of Stuart Street, Dunedin, New
Zealand, Merchant) and in what manner the same is to be performed to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to an improvement in combined sprayers, sprinklers and
jets and it has for its object to provide a sprayer, sprinkler or jet for water,
chemical and other liquids suitable for watering or spraying fruit trees, lawns,
hops, shrubs or the like. The combined sprayer, sprinkler and jet may be used
either single or double and if desired may be made to revolve while in action so as
to cover a large circular area. With slight manipulation it will give a spray of a
cyclonic or funnel shaped character or a fine sprinkling or rough spray or it may
be used in the same manner as the plain nozzle of a hose. It may be so
constructed that the amount of the water or other liquid may be regulated to a
nicety or altogether cut off in an exceedingly convenient manner.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings is a longitudinal vertical section through
a combined sprayer, sprinkler and jet constructed according to this invention.
Figure 2 is a plan section on the line a b of Figure 1 of the thimble B.
Figure 3 is a longitudinal vertical section through a double combined sprayer,
sprinkler and jet, the support or T piece being partly in elevation and
Figure 4 is a section taken through one of the nozzles and through the support
on which the nozzle is located, the section being practically taken on the line c d
of Figure 3.
Referring to Figures 1 and 2 the combined sprayer sprinkler and jet consists of
a nozzle A provided below with a screw thread or otherwise for attachment to a
hose or other conduit or liquid supply. The nozzle is preferably made circular
but it may be given any desired shape. It is provided with a gradually tapering
hole leading to the upper part. The upper part is suitably recessed to form a
chamber I and contained loosely therein is a flanged inverted thimble B provided
below at or about the level of the bottom with a tangential hole C.
The nozzle is surmounted by a cap D provided with a hole E the cap being
secured in any well known manner to the nozzle by screwing for instance as
shewn.
In the operation of the combined sprayer, sprinkler and jet when it is desired
that a cyclonic or funnel shaped spray should be produced thereby, the water will
pass up into the neck of the nozzle and the thimble B being stationary the water
enters by the tangential hole C and rushes round in a circular or helical direction.
This motion will agitate the thimble B and cause it to revolve. In so doing the
thimble will break up the mass of water between it and the inner wall of the cap D
and assisted by the hole E the result will be that a misty spray will escape by the
said hole E which is V shaped in section. A rough spray or sprinkling may be
obtained by removing the thimble B the water being broken up in passage out
through the hole E. If an ordinary jet be desired both the thimble B and the
cap D are removed.
Referring to Figures 3 and 4, the construction of each nozzle shewn there is
practically the same as that just described except that the lower parts of the
nozzles A are made partly spherical and fit on the plug ends of the support F
which is provided with water passages G going right and left so as to form a kind

page_text: of double ended cock. The nozzles are ground to fit the plug ends of the support F
and secured thereon in any well known manner and the supply of liquid to a
nozzle is shut off by turning the latter round just as in an ordinary cock. The
body of the nozzle A is in each case chambered out at H so that considerable play,
in this case two thirds of a revolution, may be given to the nozzle, without stopping
the spray or jet as the case may be.
Instead of using a support F with two nozzles A, three or more nozzles may be
mounted in like manner on a support with a corresponding number of plug ends.
These sprays, jets or sprinklers may be mounted on an arm made to revolve by
the escape of the liquid as is already in common use for sprinkling lawns and
the like.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A combined sprayer, sprinkler and jet consisting of a nozzle A having a
removable revoluble thimble B with a tangential hole C and a removable cap D
with an exit opening E substantially as described and shewn.
2. A multiform combined sprayer sprinkler and jet consisting of a support F
with water passage G and plug ends on which are capable of being revolved two
or more nozzles A with segmental chambers H thimbles B having tangential
holes C and caps D with holes E substantially as described and shown.
3. The conctions of combined sprayers, sprinklers and jet nozzles shown on
the drawings."
Dated this 22nd day 1 1004
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.