Improvements in Extincteurs.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Dec., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 4th Sept., 1900-Accepted, 6th Oct., 1900
Improvements in Extincteurs.
I, WILLIAM MILLER, of 212, St. Vincent Street, in the County of Glasgow,
North Britain, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My said invention has for its object to provide a fire extinguishing apparatus
of the kind operating with carbonic acid set free by sulphuric or other suitable
acid, with certain movable joints, which render it unnecessary to fit the discharge
pipe with hose or flexible tubing for directing the fluid when extinguishing fire-
hose or flexible tubing is objectionable being perishable and easily injured. In
carrying out my invention, I fix one or more movable joints on to the discharge
pipe, and on to one of the joints I fasten another length of metal tube, with a
director at the end-these joints allow the tube to direct the fluid in any direction
desired.
Dated this Sixth day of December 1899.
Improvements in Extincteurs.
I, WILLIAM MILLER, of 212, St. Vincent Street, in the County of Glasgow,
North Britain, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement, that is to say:-
My said invention has for its object to improve the construction of extincteurs
of the kind operating with carbonic acid set free by sulphuric or other suitable
acid, so as to render such extincteurs durable, and reliable in use.
As hitherto generally constructed the discharge pipe from the extincteur has
been fitted with hose or flexible tubing for directing the fluid when extinguishing
fire. This hose or tubing is objectionable being perishable owing to the action on
it of the acid used; and it is otherwise easily injured.
To overcome these objections I, according to my invention, secure to the upper
end of the discharge pipe by one or more movable joints a length or lengths of
metal tube with a director nozzle at the end. The joint or joints allow the tube
to be turned so that the fluid is projected in any desired direction.
And in order that my said invention and the manner of performing the same
may be properly. understood I hereunto append a sheet of explanatory drawings
to be hereinafter referred to in describing my improvements.
Figure 1, is a plan and Figure 2, a side elevation of the upper portion of an
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page_text: extincteur as made according to one modification of my improvements. Figures 3,
and 4, are similar views of a second modification; and Figure, 5, is a similar view
to Figure, 4, but with parts in a different position. In these drawings the same
reference letters are used to mark the same or like parts wherever they are repeated.
The extincteur may be of any desired known construction having a discharge
pipe leading up from near the bottom of the interior and as shown in Figures, 1,
and 2, of the drawings I secure to the upper end of this discharge pipe, A, by a
movable joint, B, of ordinary construction a length of metal tube, C, formed with
a director nozzle, D, at the end. The tube, C, may also, as shown, be fitted with
an ordinary stop cock, E. When in use the tube, C, can be turned on its joint, B,
so that the fluid can be directed either upwards or downwards as desired.
As shown in Figures 3 to 5, the joint, F, on the upper end of the discharge
pipe, A, is such that the length of metal tube, G, attached to the joint can be
turned to either side. An additional length of tube, C, with a director nozzle, 1),
at the end is connected by a joint, B, similar to that shown in Figures, 1, and 2,
with the tube, G, so that by the combination of the two joints and two lengths
of tube the nozzle can be pointed in any desired direction. A stop cock (1)
may also, if desired, be fitted on the tube, C, or G. Figures, 3, and 4, show the
tubes in their extended position ready for use. In Figure, 5, the tubes are shown
in the position they can be made to assume when the apparatus is not in use.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
In extincteurs, securing to the upper end of the discharge pipe, by cne or more
movable joints, a length or lengths of metal tube with a director nozzle at the
end, substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described and as shown
in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this Third day of September 1900.
EDMUND,HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.