Improvements in Appliances for Spraying or Disintegrating Water.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 15th July, 1898
Complete Specification Left. 6th Apr. 1899-Accented 13th May 1800
I, HERBERT ARTHUR COUCHMAN, of Hillside, Shobnall Road, Burton-on-Trent,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists of improvements in appliances for spraying or dis-
integrating water.
My invention is applicable to the appliances for the spraying of gardens, for
the damping and cooling of air in malting, breweries, and cotton mills, and for
other purposes.
In the construction of my improved spraying or water disintegrating appliance
I form a nozzle for attachment in any ordinary manner to the water supply tube.
The extremity of the outlet end of the nozzle is closed but minute perforations
are provided to cause the water to issue from the nozzle in a number of very fine
jets. The nozzle is screwed or otherwise attached to a disintegrating box or
chamber, of a suitable size and shape, which surrounds and encloses the perforated
end of the nozzle. The box or chamber is preferably formed from fine wire gauze
suitably stiffened as may be necessary, or I sometimes produce it from perforated
metal or other sheeting.
The water, under suitable pressure, flowing into the nozzle issues through the
minute perforations, herein before described, and on impinging against the interior
surface of the disintegrating box or chamber is discharged therefrom in the form
of a fine spray or mist free from solid particles of water.
I adapt my invention for the purpose of locally altering the hygrometric state
of the atmosphere for varying purposes, making such modifications in the construc-
tion of the appliance as may be necessary for its best adaption to any particular
service.
Improvements in Appliances for Spraying or Disintegrating Water.
I, HERBERT ARTHUR COUCHMAN, of Hillside, Shobnall Road, Burton-on-Trent,
Engineer, 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 consists of improvements in appliances for spraying or disin-
tegrating water.

page_text: My invention is applicable to appliances for the spraying of gardens, for the
damping and cooling of air in maltings, breweries, and cotton mills, and for other
purposes.
In the construction of a spraying or water disintegrating appliance in accordance
with my invention I form a nozzle for attachment in any ordinary manner to the
water supply tube. The extremity of the outlet end of the nozzle is closed but
minute perforations are provided to cause the water to issue from the nozzle in a
number of very fine jets. The nozzle is screwed or otherwise attached to a disin-
tegrating box or chamber, of a suitable size and shape, which surrounds and
encloses the perforated end of the nozzle. The box or chamber is preferably
formed from fine wire gauze suitably stiffened as may be necessary, or I sometimes
produce it from perforated metal or other sheeting.
The water, under suitable pressure, flowing into the nozzle issues through the
minute perforations, hereinbefore described, and on impinging against the interior
surface of the disintegrating box or chamber is discharged therefrom in the form
of a fine spray or mist free from solid particles of water.
I adapt my invention for the purpose of locally altering the hygrometric state
of the atmosphere for varying purposes, making such modifications in the construc-
tion of the appliance as may be necessary for its best adaption to any particular
service.
Referring to the two accompanying sheets of explanatory drawings:-
Figure is a front elevation, Figure 2 a sectional elevation, and Figure 3 a
plan of a water sprayer or disintegrator constructed in accordance with my inven-
tion; Figure 4 is an elevation of the central nozzle portion of the appliance.
Figures 5 to 8 inclusive on Sheet 2 illustrate various applications of the appliance..
The same reference letters in the different views indicate the same parts.
The nozzle A is screwed into one of the brass or other end plates as B of the
disintegrating box or chamber; the closed end of the nozzle is provided with a
shoulder which abuts against the other plate. B' as shown at Figure 2. The water
admitted to the interior of the chamber through the nozzle perforations as a is
discharged as a spray or mist through the gauze or finely pierced metallic periphery
or rim C.
Figure 5 illustrates the application of my sprayers or disintegrators for the
purpose of cooling and moistening air and throwing down dust in coal mines,
cotton factories, and for pneumatic maltings and other services, the sprayers as S
being fixed along the water pipe P'.
Figure 6 represents the application of my spraying appliances for the purpose
of dowsing or drenching and so laying the dust from flour mills, malt mills, or from
other places, such dust being conveyed along a pipe, as indicated by the arrow,
into the dowsing chamber Q
Figure 7 illustrates one of my spraying or disintegrating appliances mounted
upon a tripod stand and connected to a hose. pipe as R, to serve as a lawn sprinkler.
Figure 8 illustrates the application as a flower sprinkler, the brass or other con-
nocting tube as T between the disintegrator S and the hose pipe R serving as a
convenient handle.
vary the shape of the nozzle and the disintegrating box or chamber and the
arrangement of the said parts in combination with each other to meet varying
requirements.
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. Appliances for spraying or 'disintegrating water substantially as described
and as illustrated.
2. The combination with a nozzle as A arranged for attachment to

page_text: pipe or tube, of a disintegrating box or chamber substantially as and for the
purposes described and as illustrated.
Tad this 20th day of March 1800
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
25, Cross Street, Manchester, and 13, Temple Street, Birmingham,
Agents for the Applicant.