Year: 1897

page_text: I SAMUEL MORRIS of High St. Chorley, in the County of Lancaster Solicitor
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to apparatus for sprinkling or spraying water and consists
of a simple device for producing such a spray of water or other liquid from an
ordinary jet or nozzle & this I accomplish in the following manner. At the end
of the nozzle I place a wire rose or coil, wound in a spiral, conical helical or other
suitable form in such a manner that the jet as it emerges from the nozzle impinges
n the wire & is distributed in a finely divided state over, a large area.
The
roses or coils can be made inter-changeable so that any description of spray can be
produced, every alteration in the form of the rose or wire effecting a corresponding
change in the resulting spray. The roses or coils may be attached to the nozzle
in any convenient manner such as by a stem or spindle which may be screwed
or otherwise fixed in a crossbar at the base of the nozzle or they may be attached
to a collar which can be fixed on the end of the nozzle like a crown or the nozzle
& rose or coils may be made in one piece.
This form of sprinkler cannot be choked by an foreign body or substance small
enough to pass the nozzle and is particularly suitable for the class of sprinklers
usually employed as a protection against fire.
An improved sprinkler,
I, SAMUEL MORRIS of High Street, Chorley in the County of Lancaster, Solicitor,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in what manner the same is to
he performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, that is to say:-
It relates to an improved sprinkler or spray producer and consists in forming
and constructing same in such a manner that it may be readily applied or put
into use while any desired condition of spray from a vaporised state to one wherein
the liquid is less finely divided may be produced.
This object I attain by following the method of construction hereinafter des-
cribed and as illustrated by the accompanying sheets of drawings in which;-
Figs. 1 and 2 are sectional views of a sprinkler or spray producer made in

page_text: accordance with my invention, fig. 1 showing a convex while fig. 2 shows a con-
cave formation.
Fig. 3 is an end view of the sprinkler or spray producer shown by figs. 1 and 2.
Fig. 4 illustrates a modification in the formation of the outer end of the spray
producer as hereinafter described.
Similar letters and figures of reference indicate similar parts throughout the
several views.
In carrying my invention into effect I place a coil of wire a at the outer end
of the nozzle the same being wound in such a manner that the openings or inter-
stices between the coils are or may be reduced to the proper or desired sizes or
dimensions, and the other formation of said coil is of such a nature that its outer
surface is either convex as shown by fig. 1, or it may be concave as shown by fig. 2
or again the coil may be elongated into the conical form shown by fig. 4, any of
these methods of construction having the effect of distributing the water or other
liquid forced through the said interstices, in a finely divided state or even so that
it issues in a vapour, such variation in the condition of the liquid on vapour which
emerges from the nozzle being in accordance with the dimensions of the inter-
stices, the finer, closer or narrower these latter so will be the issuing spray or
vapour or vice versa.
.
The roses or coils a may be made so that they may be interchanged to produce
the varied effects of the issuing liquid as will be well understood.
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. A sprinkler or spray producer constructed with its outer nozzle in the form
of a spiral or coil substantially as herein specified.
2. A sprinkler or spray producer constructed so that the interstices through
which the water or liquid issues may be of the forms or shapes as shown sub-
stantially as and for the purposes specified.
3. The improved sprinkler or spray producer constructed substantially as herein
specified.
S. MORRIS,
Per Samuel Hey,
Agent.