Improvements B
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Sept., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 12th Mar., 1898-Accepted, 11th June, 1898
Improvements
B APP
I, MARCUS ALLEN, B.A. Dublin, L.R.C.P. Ed., L.R.C.S. Ed., of 136, Islington,
Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Surgeon (Retired), do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to water ejecting apparatus applicable for garden watering,
for washing the decks of yachts and for analogous purposes where an intermittent
or a continuous stream of water is required to be sucked or drawn through an
efferent tube or tubes and discharged as a jet or spray.
My watering ejecting apparatus consists of a hollow bulb or bulbs of rubber or other
elastic material furnished with efferent and discharge tubes of suitable length
fitted with non-return valves, and constructed and operating in the same way as
an ordinary enema syringe discharging an intermittent stream, or it may be
constructed so as to produce a continuous stream.
The discharge tube is preferably of short length 'so that the hand compressing
the bulb can also be used for directing the rose and jet with which it is fitted. If
so desired the discharge tubes may be also fitted with a shut off valve or stop-
cock. The efferent tube is preferably weighted so as to prevent it from leaving
the reservoir from which the water is being sucked or drawn.
The advantages of this invention for garden use are as follows: it is less
It is less
cumbersome and less expensive than the ordinary long hose on a reel.
irksome than the garden syringe, which has to be frequently refilled and requires
both hands to use, while this apparatus can be worked with one hand only
leaving the other hand free. It combines the advantages of a garden syringe and a
watering pot without being so complicated as ordinary garden hose. It can be
used to suck up and discharge water from a watering pot, basin or other
vessel. If the efferent tube should be found inconveniently long in a limited
space, such as a small green-house, it may readily be coiled up like a rope.
if it should be found too short, the vessel containing water may be placed upon a
chair or inverted flower-pot.
And
For use on board yachts a continuous stream would be desirable. The apparatus
ought, therefore, to have two bulbs in line, and it ought to be made of sufficient
size for the bulb uearer the efferent end to be compressed by both hands or between
the elbow and the side. The apparatus is designed to communicate with the sea
by passing the efferent tube through the gangway or scuppers or over the gunwale.
It has the advantages of being more expeditious than wetting a mop in the sea, or
carrying water over the side in buckets. And in case of fire on board it would supply
a continuous stream of water instead of having recourse to fire-buckets.
When not in use the tube can be coiled up like a rope and the apparatus hung on
a peg.

page_text: I, MARCUS ALLEN, B.A. Dublin, L.R.C.P. Ed., L.R.C.S. Ed., of 136, Islington,
Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Surgeon (Retired), 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 relates to water ejecting apparatus applicable for garden
watering, for washing the decks of yachts and for analogous purposes where an
intermittent or a continuous stream of water is required to be sucked or drawn
through an efferent tube or tubes and discharged as a jet or spray.
be used as a shower-bath and as a spinal douche.
It may also
My water ejecting apparatus consists of a hollow bulb or bulbs of rubber or
other elastic material furnished with efferent and discharge tubes of suitable length
fitted with non-return valves, and constructed and operating in the same way as an
ordinary enema syringe discharging an intermittent stream, or
constructed so as to produce a continuous stream.
it may be
In the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 is an elevation of my water ejecting
apparatus constructed for producing an intermittent stream, and Fig. 2 is a similar
view of the apparatus for producing a continuous stream.
to correspond in both figures.
Like parts are lettered
The discharge tube A is preferably of short length, so that the hand compressing
the bulb B can also be used for directing the rose C or the jet D with which the
discharge tube A is fitted. The efferent tube E is weighted at its suction end F so
as to prevent it from leaving the bucket, basin or other reservoir from which the
water is being sucked or drawn. The efferent tube is made of a convenient length
and is fitted with any suitable number of non-return valves e, according to
requirements.
The advantages of this invention for garden use are as follows: it is less
cumbersome and less expensive than the ordinary long hose on a reel. It is less
irksome than the garden syringe, which has to be frequently refilled and requires
both hands to use, while this apparatus can be worked with one hand only leaving
the other hand free. It combines the advantages of a garden syringe and a
watering pot without being so complicated as ordinary garden hose or nearly so
heavy to lift as a watering pot or syringe. It can be used to suck up and
discharge water from a watering pot, basin or other vessel.
should be found inconveniently long in a limited space, such as a small green-house,
If the efferent tube
it may readily be coiled up like a rope. And if it should be found too short, the
vessel containing water may be placed upon a chair or inverted flower pot.
For use on board yachts a continuous stream would be desirable. The apparatus
ought, therefore, to have two bulbs in line as shown in Fig. 2, and it ought to be
made of sufficient size for the bulb B nearer the efferent end to be compressed
by both hands or between the elbow and the side. The apparatus is designed
to communicate with the sea by passing the efferent tube through the gangway or
scuppers or over the gunwale. It has the advantage of being more expeditious
than wetting a mop in the sea, or carrying water over the side in buckets. And
in case of fire on board it would supply a continuous stream of water instead of
having recourse to fire-buckets.
In the form shown in Fig. the two bulbs B and G are connected together by
a piece of stiff tube E¹ so that should both hands be in use to compress the bulb B
the other bulb G'will remain in line. This connecting tube El is also fitted with
a non-return valve e', and this form of the apparatus operates in the manner

page_text: well known in connection with double bulb devices of this character to discharge a
continuous or a practically continuous stream.
In both forms of the apparatus the discharge tube A is provided with a shut off
valve or stop cock a if so desired.
When not in use the tube E of either form can be coiled up like a rope and the
apparatus hung on a peg.
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. Water ejecting apparatus comprising a hollow bulb of india-rubber or other
elastic material having at one end a weighted efferent tube fitted with a non-return
valve or valves, and a discharge tube fitted with a rose and jet at the other end of
said bulb substantially as described with reference to Fig. 1 of the accompanying
drawings and for the purpose stated.
2. Water ejecting apparatus comprising two hollow bulbs of india-rubber or
other elastic material connected by a stiff tube having a non-return valve therein,
an efferent tube having a weighted end and fitted with a non-return valve or
valves being connected to the compression bulb, and a discharge tube fitted
with a rose and jet connected to the other bulb, arranged substantially as and for
the purpose hereinbefore described with reference to Fig. 2 of the accompanying
drawings.
F. W. GOLBY,
36, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agent for the Applicant.