IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTING WATER FOR EXTINGUISHING FIRE AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES."
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Robert Barlow, of Bolton, in the County of
Lancaster, Manufacturer, and Robert Walsh, of the same Placo,
Mechanic, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR
DISTRIBUTING WATER FOR EXTINGUISHING FIRE AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Robert Barlow
and Robert Walsh at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 26th February 1873.
WO, JOHN ROBERT BARLOW, of Bolton, in the County of Lancaster,
3 Manufacturer, and ROBERT WALSH, of the same Placo, Mechanic, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTING WATER FOR EXTINGUISHING FIRE AND FOR OTHER
PURPOSES," to be as follows :—
Our Invention consists in connecting the water supply pipo to the
) hollow axle of a revolving creel on which the flexible hose is wound, and
in connecting one end of the flexible hose to a branch pipe projecting
from the hollow axle.

page_text: This improved apparatus is particularly suitable for extinguishing
fires in cotton mills and other large buildings, as it can be easily con-
nected on every floor to the main service water pipe, and on the alarm
of fire the attendants have only to turn on the water into the hollow
axle of the creel, from whence it is forced into the flexible hose which
can be drawn off the creel as fast as a man can run; by this means no
entanglement of the flexible hose can take place, and a great saving in
time is effected in bringing the water to the place where it is required,
as the water is forced into the hose while it is being drawn off the
creel.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Robert Barlow and Robert Walsh in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 21st August 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JoHN
ROBERT BARLOW, of Bolton, in the County of Lancaster, Manufacturer,
and ROBERT WALSH, of the same Place, Mechanic, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of February, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-
sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto us, the said John Robert Barlow and Robert Walsh, IIer
special licence that we, the said John Robert Barlow and Robert
Walsh, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we,
tho said John Robert Barlow and Robert Walsh, our exccutors, ad-
ministrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
FOR DISTRIBUTING WATER FOR EXTINGUISHING FIRE AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said John Robert
Barlow and Robert Walsh, our exccutors or administrators, by an in-
strument in writing under our, or their, or one of our or their hands and

page_text: seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and.
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said John Robert Barlow and Robert
Walsh do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and .
ascertained in and by the following statement (that is to say) :-
Our Invention consists in connecting the water supply pipe to the
hollow axle of a revolving creel on which the flexible hose is wound,
and in connecting one end of the flexible hose to a branch pipe pro-
jecting from the hollow axle.
"
And in order that our Invention may be fully understood and readily
carried into operation, we will proceed to describe the accompanying
Sheet of Drawings; reference being had to the figures and letters marked
theroon.
Fig. 1 is an end view; and Fig. 2, a front view of our improved
apparatus; a is the creel, the axle of which revolves in bearings in the
brackets b, b, which are bolted to the wall or to any convenient fixture;
one end of the axle of the creel is hollow, and to it is connected the
water supply pipe c which is provided with the stop-cock c'. From the
hollow axle of the creel projects the branch pipe a¹ to which one end of
the flexible hose d is connected; this hose is coiled around the crecl, and
the length and diameter of the creel must be made to correspond with
the length of the flexible hose required; to the other end of hose is
connected the discharge nozzle d¹. We prefer to place the crecl at a
considerable distance from the floor so that the nozzle may be within
reach of the firemen or workpeople employed on the premises.
This improved apparatus is particuiarly suitable for extinguishing
fires in cotton mills and other large buildings, as it can be easily con-
nected on every floor to the main service water pipe, and on the alarm of
fire the attendants havo only to turn the tap c¹ to admit the water into
the hollow axle of the crecl from whence it is forced into the flexible
hose d which can be drawn off the creel as fast as a man can run; by
this means no entanglement of the flexible hose can take place, and a
great saving in time is effected in bringing the water to the place whero