Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Mar., 1887.
Specification Accepted, 19th Apr., 1887.
I, HOWARD PARKER NICHOLS, residing at Reading, County of Middlesex, State of
Massachusetts, one of the United States of America, gentleman, 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-supplier cleaning brushes mops and the like; and
it consists in the construction and novel combination of parts, as hereinafter described
and claimed.
Referring by letter to the accompanying drawing; A, designates a hollow handle,
its larger end, a, being screw threaded to engage a screw threaded ring, b, on the end
of the rubber tubing, B, which connects the handle with any proper source of water
supply. The outer end of the tubing, B, is or may be screw threaded or otherwise
constructed to connect with the discharge tube of a hydrant. The smaller end, a', of
the handle is bent or curved at right angles and its extremity is provided with a
number of sprinkling orifices, c, as shown. Secured to and surrounding the bent
end, a,
of the handle is a concave plate or cap, C, to the lower surface of which a
brush head, sponge or equivalent device is attached, the adding of the brush head
or sponge makes the device a complete brush. D, is a valve to control the amount of
water admitted into the handle or to cut the water off. The valve may be of any
usual construction.
E, is a concave deflector surrounding the handle near its brush end to prevent water
running down the same when raised F, is a branch tube standing from the handle
at a point between the brush and the deflector, E. This tube has a side opening,
around which is swiveled, water tight, the sprinkler tube, G, the inner end of which
is enlarged and made into a ring, g, to surround the tube, F. When the sprinkler
tube is turned outward, as shown in full lines in the drawing, its open end inside of
the swiveled ring, g, communicates with the opening, f, in the tube, F, and water can
flow through the sprinkler, but when the latter is turned entirely inward the water is
cut off from it.

page_text: H, is a valve in the tube, F, of any suitable construction for cutting water off from
the sprinkler in any position. This valve prevents the water from flowing should the
sprinkler be accidentally turned while the device is in use in a place where no
sprinkler is wished.. The end of the sprinkler tube is bent downward and is provided
with the convex perforated sprinkler plate, h, surrounded by the concave deflector
flange, h, to prevent water froin running on the tube.
By placing à valve, I, on the handle between the end thereof and the tube, F, the
water can be cut off from the brush and the device used solely as a sprinkler.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is:
1. The combination of the connecting tube, B, the hollow handle, having the
sprinkling nozzle within the cap, the cap for the attachment of the brush and the
swiveled sprinkling tube attached to the handle, substantially as specified.
2. The combination of the connecting tube, B, the hollow handle, A, provided with
the sprinkling orifices, G, valve, D, and branch tube, F, the cap, C, the swiveled
sprinkler tube, G, having the sprinkling plate h, and deflector flange, h¹, and the
valve, H, substantially as specified.
3. The combination of the connecting tube; the hollow handle provided with
orifices, c, and valves, D, and, I, the cap, C, the branch tube, F, having the valve, H,
the deflector plate, F, on the handle and the swiveled sprinkler tube provided with
the sprinkling plate, h, and deflector flange, h¹, substantially as specified.
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