Improvements in Connecting Hose Pipes to Water Fittings and in Apparatus therefor.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Apr., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 28th Jan., 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 23rd Mar., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Connecting Hose Pipes to Water Fittings and in
Apparatus therefor.
I JOHN JAMES ROYLE of 27 and 29 King Street West, Manchester, Mechanical
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a simple and reliable means of securing and connecting
a hose pipe to the tail piece of say a tap union, rose or jet or other water fitting
without the necessity of wiring the outside of the hose pipe as hitherto practised.
In performing my invention I employ a tapered end to the tap union or other
water fitting to be connected to the hose pipe and which I prefer to form as a screw
thread to screw the required distance into the inside of the hose pipe or I form
grooves or projections suitably disposed on the outside of the tail piece. In con-
junction with this tapered end and as a substitute for the wiring I also employ a
ferrule or ring of metal to surround the outside of the hose pipe and whereby I
obtain an abutment or resistance to the screwing or forcing in of the tail piece of the
water fitting into the mouth of the hose pipe and also ensure a perfectly water tight
joint with adequate holding power.
JOHN G. WILSON,
Patent Office,
55, Market Street, Manchester,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in Connecting Hose-pipes to Water-fittings and in
Apparatus therefor.
I JOHN JAMES ROYLE of 27 and 29 King Street West, Manchester, Mechanical
Engineer 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-
This invention relates to a simple and reliable means of securing and connecting a
hose-pipo to the tail-piece of say a tap-union, rose or jet or other water-fitting without
the necessity of wireing the outside of the hose-pipe as hitherto practised.
In performing my invention I employ a tapered end to the tap-union or other
water-fitting to be connected to the hose-pipe and which I prefer to form as a screw
thread to screw the required distance into the inside of the hose-pipe, or I form
grooves or projections suitably disposed on the outside of the tail-piece.
In conjunction with this tapered-end and as a substitute for the wireing I also
employ a ferrule or ring of metal to surround the outside of the hose-pipe and
whereby I obtain an abutment or resistance to the screwing or forcing in of the tail-
piece of the water-fitting into the mouth of the hose-pipe and also ensure a perfectly
water-tight joint with adequate holding power.
And in order that this my said invention may be the more readily understood
and carried into practical effect I have hereunto annexed a drawing illustrative of
my improvements as applied to several water-fittings and will now proceed to
describe the same with the assistance of the various Figures and letters of reference
marked thereon-similar letters being used to denote similar parts in all the views.
Fig. 1 represents a sectional view shewing the application of my improved tail-
piece and ferrule in securing a hose-pipe to what is known as a Royle's Patent Tap
Union shewing the same applied to the bib of,a house-tap. Fig. 2 represents my
improvements applied in securing a hose-pipe to the tail-piece of a Hose-pipe
Terminal or Rose and Jet. Fig. 3 represents a sectional view of a hose-connector or
union and Fig. 4 is an exterior view of a hose-coupler or repairing-piece both having.
my improved tail-pieces and ferrules applied in connecting two lengths of hose-pipe
together as illustrated. Fig. 5 illustrates the same connector or coupling as in Fig. 4
but shewn separately and Fig. 6 represents a side and end view of the improved
ferrule employed.
In all the views a is the tapered end of the water-fitting-which is by preference
formed as a shallow screw thread as illustrated to screw the required distance into the
inside of the end of the hose-pipe b-or the screw-thread may be substituted by
grooves or projections suitably disposed on the outside of the tapered tail-piece. c is
the improved ferrule or ring of metal surrounding the outside of the hose-pipe 6 so as
to form the necessary abutinent or resistance to the screwing or forcing in of the
tail-piece a into the mouth or inside bore of the hose-pipe..
b
It will thus be observed that by means of my invention I am enabled to dispense

page_text: with the wireing or of the hose-pipe and it is found in practise that I also secure a
perfectly water-tight joint and with adequate holding power.
My improvements are applicable to connecting hose-pipes to all classes of water-
fittings.
I wish it to be distinctly understood that I make no claim herein to forming a
screw or thread upon the tail-pipes of water-fittings as this is already the subject of
previous Letters-Patent No. 6231 granted to me on the 30th day of December 1882.
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Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I' declare that what I
claim is :-
1st. In securing a hose pipe to. a tap-union, hose terminal, hose-connector, coupler
or other water fitting the employment of a tapered and screwed tail-piece in com-
bination with a ferrule or ring of metal mounted on the outside of the hose-pipe
substantially as herein before described and illustrated.
2nd. The improved ferrule or ring substantially as and for the purposes herein-
before described and illustrated on the accompanying drawing.