Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Sept., 1886.
Complete Left, 7th June, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 8th July, 1887.
I, WILLIAM LINCOLNE of the firm of Lincolne and Company, Merchants & Manu-
facturers, in Glasgow in the County of Lanark do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:
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The invention relates to Hand Fire Extinguishers with which a liquid for
extinguishing fire is employed.
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The said invention consists of a cylindrical tube or case (made of tin) tapering
at one end and provided with a sprinkler and a rubber cap which acts as a stopper.
The tube or case is about twenty two inches long and two or more inches in
diameter tapering to about one inch and an eighth.
The tube or case is made with a longitudinal seam or seams it may also have a
number of holes punched which are afterwards closed with a sensitive solder that shall
readily melt with heat.
The advantages I claim for my invention are:-
First. That the rubber cap can be instantaneously removed.
Second. That the tube when retained in the hand of the operator distributes the
contents more effectually by means of the sprinkler.
Third. That by means of the rubber cap the tube can be thrown without losing.a
drop of the contents.
Fourth. The tube when thrown into the fire is, by reason of its sensitively soldered
parts effectually discharged of its contents.
Dated this 15th day of September 1886.

page_text: Improvements in Hand Fire Extinguishers.
1, WILLIAM LINCOLNE of the firm of Lincolne & Company Merchants and Manu-
facturers in Glasgow in the county of Lanark North Britain and presently residing at
Ely in the county of Cambridgeshire 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 Hand Fire Extinguishers with which a material, liquid or
otherwise, is employed for extinguishing fire.
The said Invention consists of a cylindrical tube or case (made of tin or other
suitable material) with a shoulder at one end slightly tapering and provided with a
rose-fashioned sprinkler and a rubber cap, which last acts as a stopper.
The tube or case may be of any suitable size but preferably either twenty two
inches long and two inches in diameter, or twenty four inches long and two inches
and a quarter in diameter, tapering from the shoulder to about one inchand a half
more or less.
The tube or case is made with a longitudinal seam or seams. It may also have a
number of perforations which are afterwards closed with a suitable solder that shall
melt readily on exposure to heat.
The tube or case may be in one piece, or it may have the perforated end removable
and held in its place with a bayonet-grip.
In the accompanying drawings
Fig. 1 gives a view of my Hand Fire Extinguisher and of the ring by which it may
be suspended from any convenient nail. It also shows the position of the slot by
which the bayonet-grip is maintained.
Fig. 2 shows the bayonet-grip by which the perforated end, when removable, is held
in place.
Fig. 3, shows the form of the rubber cap.
Fig. 4 shows the nature of the perforations by which the material, liquid or
otherwise, is scattered over or upon the fire.
A represents the tube or case which I prefer to make of tin and of the sizes
herein before stated.
B shows the removable end with its bayonet-grip, which lays hold of the slot E.
C shows the perforations at the top of the tube, whether the said top be fixed or
removable.
D shows the rubber cap which is slipped over the perforated end and secures the
contents.
E represents the slot that fits into the bayonet-grip of Fig. 2 and Fig. 4.

page_text: Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is-
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1st. A Hand Fire Extinguisher with which a material is employed for extinguishing
fire, comprising a tube having a closed bottom at one end, and at the other a
perforated top, fixed or removable, which top is covered with a removable rubber cap,
substantially as described.
2nd. In Hand Fire Extinguishers with which a material liquid or otherwise is
employed for extinguishing fire, the combination of tube perforated and soldered as
described with a rubber cap acting as a stopper substantially as described.
3rd. In Hand Fire Extinguishers with which a material, liquid or otherwise, is
employed for extinguishing fire, the combination of the tube A provided with a rose-
fashioned sprinkler in one piece, or detached as C and furnished with a bayonet-
grip B held by a slot E, and covered with a rubber cap D substantially as described.
Dated this 16th day of September 1886.