Year: 1888

page_text: A communication from avronu DY FREDERICA URI say
Russia, Engineer.
I WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON F.C.S., M.I.M.E. of the Agency for Foreign
Patent Solicitors, 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6 Bank Street, Manchester, both in
the County of Lancaster, and 323 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
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Civil
Firemen are obliged to use strong metallic helmets as protections for their heads
and when these get hot as they always do before long in a fire they cause grout
distress to the firemen.
Now this invention is designed to form a helmet that can not only be cooled by
the fireman at leisure but also one that will enable the fireman to surround himself
practically with a rain of water so that in a very hot place he can to some extent
keep his clothes as well as his helmet cool.
The invention consists in forming a rose on the top of the helmet which scatters
water round from a large number of minute orifices and connecting this rose by
means of a flexible pipe with the hose that he is using. By thus turning on a cock
in the flexible pipe he can at once cool his helmet and thoroughly wet himself or
if he prefers by turning it full on very suddenly he can cause a rain of water pro-
jecting out like an umbrella on all sides and just missing his shoulders. A pipe
is carried from the rose down to the end of the back peak and from there is
attached to the flexible pipe. This pipe can be made broad and narrow if desired
instead of round so as to fit the head more easily and also to provide a large
cooling surface against the head and for cooling the interior of the helmet.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Tord Street, Liverpool,
Patent Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of the Agency for Foreign
Patent Solicitors, 6 Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6 Bank Street, Manchester, both in the
County of Lancaster and 323 High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Civil
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 :-
Firemen are obliged to use strong metallic helinets as protection for their heads,
and when these get hot, as they always do before long in a fire, they causo great
distress to the firemen.
Now this invention is designed to form a helmet that can not only be cooled by the
fireman at leisure, but also one-that-will-enable the fireman to surround himself,
practically, with a shower of water, so that in a very hot place ho can to some extent,
keep his clothes as well as his helmet cool.
The invention consists in forming a rose or distributor on the top of the helmet,
which scatters water round from a large number of minute orifices, and connecting
this distributor, by means of a flexible pipe, with the hose that he is using. By
turning on a cock in the flexible pipe, he can thus at once cool his helmet, and
thoroughly saturate his clothing, or, if he prefers, by turning it full on ho can cause a
shower of water to project out like an umbrella all round him. A pipe is carried from
the distributor down preferably to the end of the back peak, and there is attached to
the flexible pipe. The helmet pipe can be made broad and narrow, if desired, instead
of round, so as to fit the head more easily, and also to provide a large cooling surface
against the head and for cooling the interior of the helmet.
In the accompanying drawings;•
Figs. 1 and 2 are respectively an elevation and a vertical section of a helmet
constructed according to this invention, and Fig. 3 is a view representing a fireman
wearing one of the helmets and surrounded by a protecting shower of water as
herein-after described.
Like letters indicate like parts throughout the drawings.
A is the helmet which in general is of ordinary construction having a front peak A'
back peak A and a crest A*. B is the water distributor which is carried above the
.crest A³ and which may be perforated with a number of small holes B' as shown or
the same result may be obtained by having a fine slit around it, suitable means in this
case being provided to connect the upper and lower portions of the distributor. Cis
the pipe which connects with the distributor B and passes down inside the crest to the
back peak A to the outer surface of which it is preferably secured by means of the
clip or staple C D is the flexible pipe which is advantageously connected to
the helmet pipe C by means of the coupling or union joint E. F, figure 3, is the
branch pipe and cock fixed to the ordinary delivery or hand pipe G and to which is
connected the lower end of the flexible pipe D either with or without a coupling or

page_text: union joint. H is the ordinary flexible hose pipe to which the delivery pipe G is
connected by the coupling G¹.
Supposing after a length of hose H has been run out and a fireman is desirous of
using this invention he connects the helmet A by means of the flexible pipe D to the
hand pipe G and turns on the cock F. If he requires only to cool his helmet he
turns on the cock F only to a slight extent so that but a small quantity of water will
pass through the distributor B; the water thus distributed will trickle down the
surface of the holmet A and besides this will saturate the fireman's clothes and thus
prevent them from taking fire. If however the fireman is desirous of screening
himself more effectually from the effects of the surrounding fire he can turn on the
cock E as much as required and the water as shown in figure 3 of the drawings will
be distributed around him so as in a manner to completely envelope him in a dome
shaped shower of water which will fall clear of his person and prevent him or his
clothes from becoming scorched or burned.
.
The pipe C may be of circular section or it may be flattened so as to form a thin
water casing which may partially or entirely surround the helmet and peaks if desired
so as to keep the helmet cool or in the event of the helmet becoming hot to prevent
the heat being conducted to the head of the wearer.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by my
foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. The combination with a helmet of a water distributor substantially as and for the
purpose herein described.
2. The combination with a helmet having a water distributor of a metal tube or
water casing permanently socured to or forming part of the said helmet and adapted
to conduct water to the distributor substantially as herein described.
3. The combination with a helmet such as described of a delivery or hand pipe
fitted with a branch pipe adapted to be connected to the helmet substantially as herein
specified and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 20th day of February 1889. ·