Improvements in Means for Spreading or Distributing Water on Lawns, and for other Horticultural Purposes.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Oct., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 6th July, 1894-Accepted, 11th Aug., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Spreading or Distributing Water on
Lawns, and for other Horticultural Purposes.
We, WILLIAM WHITELEY, Universal Provider, of 39 Westbourne Grove, and
HENRY BARLEY, of 3 Hillingdon Place, Kensal Green, both in the County of
Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The invention has for its object a simple and effective arrangement of means for
distributing or spreading water on lawns and for other horticultural purposes.
In carrying the invention into effect a suitable upright carried by a convenient
base is fitted with grips or cramps so arranged as to readily receive and hold the
watering hose; at the upper end of the said standard is a horizontal spreading or
distributing plate provided, if desired, with vertical, horizontal or angular adjusting
means.
In using the above apparatus the hose is held by the grips with the nozzle at a
convenient distance from the spreading plate; then, on the water being turned on,
it will strike against the spreading plate and will be spread or distributed in a more
or less fine spray for a certain distance around the standard.
Dated this 6th day of October 1893.
WILLIAM WHITELEY,
HENRY BARLEY,
By Harris & Mills,
23, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Spreading or Distributing Water on
Lawns, and for other Horticultural Purposes.
We WILLIAM WHITELEY, Universal Provider, of 39 Westbourne Grove, and
HENRY BARLEY, Gardener, of 3 Hillington Place, Kensal Green, both in the
County of Middlesex, 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 :-
The invention has for its object a simple and effective arrangement of means for
distributing or spreading water on lawns and for other horticultural purposes.
In carrying the invention into effect a suitable upright carried by a convenient
base is fitted with grips or cramps so arranged as to readily receive and hold the
watering hose; at the upper end of the said standard is a horizontal spreading or
distributing plate provided, if desired, with vertical, horizontal or angular adjusting
means.
In using the above apparatus the hose is held by the grips with the nozzle at a
convenient distance from the spreading plate; then, on the water being turned on,
it will strike against the spreading plate and will be spread or distributed in a more
or less fine spray for a certain distance around the standard.
In order to more particularly explain this our said invention we have appended
hereunto an illustrative sheet of drawings, upon which are figures and numbers of
reference, in which
Fig. 1, is a general view of this our invention as usually adopted.
Fig. 2. shows a modification of adiustment of the distributing plate

page_text: Fig. 3, is a plan view of the upper bracket on line A—B.
Fig. 4, is a plan view of the lower bracket on line C-D.
5, is the upright carried upon any suitable base 6. 7, is the hose pipe, having
the nozzle 8, and tap 9, 10, is a grip or holder through which the hose passes
upward to the grip bracket 11, (see Fig. 3). This grip consists of the back cramp
plate 12, carried upon the clamping pin 13, and is permitted a little play so that it
may readily adjust itself to the hose pipe when being secured. 14, is a tightening
screw upon whose front end is carried the front clamping plate 15.
16, is the distributing plate whose under surface may be flat, convex, concave or
otherwise prepared. This plate is carried upon the joint 17, which latter is carried
from the bent arm 18. In some instances we may provide further adjustments for
the position of the plate 16, as shown in Fig. 2, in which the leg 19, carrying the
joint 17 passes through the eye 20, and is secured by the pin 21; this eye 20,
being in its turn capable of a horizontal adjustment through the eye 22, upon the
arm 18".
Thus the plate may be adjusted into various positions by the screw pin 23, so
that the water striking thereon may be diffused equally all around, or obliquely as
desired, the latter being more particularly applicable for the watering of banks or
terraces.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
1. The combination and arrangement of the stand 5, brackets 10 & 11 with
grips 12 and 15, with the adjustable distributing plate 16, carried upon the joint 17,
all substantially as set forth and for the purposes specified.
2. The modified combination and arrangement of the parts as described in
Claim 1, with the further horizontal and vertical adjustments as shown and set
forth in Fig. 2.
Dated this 5th day of July 1894.
CHARLES T. POWELL,
Applicants' Agent.