An Improved Street Watering Vehicle.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 26th June, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Mar., 1895-Accepted, 4th May, 1895
ROVISIONAL STECIFICATION.
An Improved Street Watering Vehicle.
1, WILLIAM HARRISON MILLER of The Miller-Knoblock Waggon Company
of South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana, U.S.A., Manufacturer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
in the watering vehicle of this invention the water sprinkling appliance consists
of two radially perforated cylindrical or part cylindrical casings, each divided by
n vertical partition into two chambers and cach casing placed at a rear corner of
the vehicle with its longitudinal axis in the direction of the length or travel of the
vehicle. Each casing or double chambered distributor has above it an ante
chamber fitted with a valve past which the water from the main tank must pass in
order to reach the distributors. Beneath each of the valves there may be one or
more fixed or adjustable deflecting plates for guiding the water more in one
direction than another through the perforations of the casings, the chambers of
which may be separately shut off so that only one of the two chambers may be
used for water delivery, also one of the two chambers may have perforations larger
than the other chamber, or instead of ordinary perforations the casings may be
provided with water distributing slots which may be more or less opened and closed
by lever mechanism and slide plates. The water distribution is operated from a
treadle on the foot board of the driver's seat and lever mechanism.
Dated this 26th day of June 1894.
THOMAS R. SHILLITO,
89, Chancery Lane; London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.
1, WILLIAM HARRISON MILLER of The Miller-Knoblock Waggon Company
of South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana, U.S.A., Manufacturer, 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 :-
In the drawing
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the street watering vehicle of this invention.
Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the front end of the water container with parts in
connection therewith and
Figs. 3 and 4 are enlarged detail views of the water sprinkling apparatus.
The water sprinkling apparatus consists of two radially perforated cylindrical
or part cylindrical casings a each divided by a vertical partition into two
chambers c, d, and each casing a placed at a rear corner of the vehicle with its
longitudinal axis in the direction of the length or travel of the vehicle. Each
casing or double chambered sprinkler a has above it an ante chamber e fitted with
a valve/pr. ssed upon by a spring g, past which valves the water coming from the
tank and through pipes must flow, in order to reach the sprinkling

page_text: chambers ed. Within each sprinkling chamber beneath each valve/there is a
deflecting plate pivotted on a spindle & but normally prevented from turning on
this spindle by a projection provided within the sprinkling chambers. These
deflecting plates guide the water flowing past the valves to one side of the
perforated chambers so that the main outward rush of the water shall not take
place immediately underneath the valves but more at one side. The sprinkling of
the water is also regulated by variously spacing the perforations m somewhat in
the manner shown in Fig. 5 which represents the curved perforated sprinkling
plate forming chambers r, d, drawn out flat.
Instead of the casings a having round perforations for sprinkling the water,
they may be provided with slits as shown in Figs. 7 and 8, which are
respectively a longitudinal section of a casing, and the slitted casing plate a drawn
out flat. The slits m' may vary in width according to the quantity of water to be
ejected at different parts of the casing or the width of the passage through the
slits may be varied in the course of their length by strips n (Figs. 6, 7, 8) of
varying width fixed within the casings opposite to or to project into the slits by
means of screw bolts passing through fixed lugs and through the strips #
(Fig. 7).
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Access to the inside of the casings a for cleaning and other purposes may he
bad by operating hand wheel p upon screw to lower said ensings upon their
bearings and the casings may also may be readily removed completely und
replaced as will be seen in the drawing.
The four valves in the ante chambers are severally and independently opened
against the resistance of springs g from the driver's sent through pelala vertienl
ruds u bell crank levers e rods we leading underneath the water tank 4 to the crank
rods severally in connection with the valve rods y through rods :. Upon
releasing the several pedals the valves acted upon by the springs g spring back to
their seats and stop the outflow of water into the respective perforated sprinkling
chambers. Each valve rod y works in a stalling box as shewn in Figs. 3 and 4 by
which leakage of water past the valve rods is prevented.
Fig. 9 shews a water sprinkling device suitable for hand watering carts in which
only one such sprinkler need be used. With this view a double deflecting plate j
is provided for guiding the water to both sides of the sprinkling chamber instead of
to one side only and, as shewn in Fig. 10 which represents the perforated casing
plate drawn out flat, the sprinkling chamber is similarly perforated at the two
sides. The double deflecting plate is held upon the end plates of the sprinkling
chamber so as to be readily removable. is the supply pipe leading from the
tank of the hairt cart to the sprinkling chamber and a valve for turning the
water on or off.
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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. Street watering vehicles in which are two water distributing chambers c, d,
on each side of the vehicle, having a common ante chamber e provided with spring
valves from which ante chambers the water can only flow into the distributing
chambers when said valves are open, the distributing chambers having
perforations in variously spaced (Fig. 4) and having deflecting plates for guiling
the water to one side of the same and the distributing chambers being s attached
to the ante chambers that for cleaning and other purposes they may be readily
opened, detached and refixed without the use of special tools, substantially as
described and shewn.
2. In the watering vehicle referred to, the construction of the distributing
chambers c, d, with slits m³ for the distribution of water the passage of which
through said slits may be varied by means of fixed curved strips so that the water
is delivered in the desired quantities from different parts of the slits, substantially
as described and shewn.

page_text: 3. For hand watering vehicles the perforated water distributing chamber
provided with two delicting plates for guiding the sprinkling water equably
against two sides of the same whilst at the bottom the water flows through wider
spaced perforations, substantially as described with reference to Figs. 9 and 10 of
the drawings.
4. The general construction, arrangement and combination of parts constituting
the street watering apparatus substantially as described and shewn.
Dated this 22nd day of March 1895.
THOMAS R. SHILLITO,
89, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.