IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO GARDEN SYRINGES, GARDEN ENGINES, HOSE DIRECTORS, WATERING CANS, FIRE EXTINGUISHERS, AND OTHER SIMILAR APPARATUS FOR PROTECTING THE OPERATOR IN USING THE SAME"
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Cooper, of Handsworth, in the County of
Stafford, Commercial Traveller, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN OR
APPLICABLE TO GARDEN SYRINGES, GARDEN ENGINES, HOSE DIRECTORS,
WATERING CANS, FIRE EXTINGUISHERS, AND OTHER SIMILAR APPARATUS
FOR PROTECTING THE OPERATOR IN USING THE SAME"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick Cooper at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 17th June 1881.
FREDERICK COOPER, of Handsworth, in the County of Stafford, Commercial
Traveller. "IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO GARDEN SYRINGES, GARDEN
ENGINES, HOSE DIRECTORS, WATERING CANS, FIRE EXTINGUISHERS, AND
OTHER SIMILAR APPARATUS FOR PROTECTING THE OPERATOR IN USING THE
SAME."
The object of this Invention is to prevent the back or drip water from this class
of apparatus running down the hand, arm, or sleeve of the operator using the
same, or in the caso of watering cans and hose directors to prevent the water
running over the operator's boots, and consists in constructing a flat or curved
annular rim or flango surrounding or partly surrounding the outlet extremity of
such apparatus in such a manner that such flange or rim covers and extends
beyond the outside of the apparatus sufficiently far to lead off the drip water and
allows the same to fall off at the end of the apparatus farthest from the operator,
instead of allowing the same, as heretofore, to run down the outside of the apparatus
to the discomfort and annoyance of the user.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Frederick Cooper in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
17th December 1881.
FREDERICK COOPER, of Handsworth, in the County of Stafford, Commercial
Traveller. "IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO GARDEN SYRINGES, GARDEN
ENGINES, HOSE DIRECTORS, WATERING CANS, FIRE EXTINGUISHERS, AND
OTHER SIMILAR APPARATUS FOR PROTECTING THE OPERATOR IN USING THE
SAME."
The object of this Invention is to prevent the back or drip water from this class
of apparatus running down the hand, arm, or sleeve of the operator using the
same, or in the case of watering cans and hose directors to prevent the water
running over the operator's boots, and consists in constructing a flat or curved
annular rim or flango surrounding or partly surrounding the outlet extremity of
such apparatus in such a manner that such flange or rim covers and extends
beyond the outside of the apparatus sufficiently far to lead off the drip water and
allow the same to fall off at the end of the apparatus farthest from the operator,
instead of allowing the same, as heretofore, to run down the outside of the
apparatus to the discomfort and annoyance of the user. Fig. 1 of the accompanying
Drawing represents a side exterior view of a garden syringe having my improve-
ments applied thereto; Fig. 2 represents a side exterior view, and Fig. 3 a side
sectional view of another description of garden syringe also embracing my
improvements. In all the views A is the body or tubular portion of the syringe,
and B is the jet or rose, both of which are of the ordinary construction;
Cis my
improved rim or flange, which surrounds or partly surrounds the syringe body, by
preference immediately behind the rose or jet, as illustrated. This rim C, by
projecting beyond the outside of the syringe, as shewn, leads off the drip water
and allows the same to fall off, as indicated by the dotted lines, at the far end of
the syringe, and so prevents such drip water running down the outside of the
syringe and wetting tho hands of the operator as heretofore. In order to prevent
the water which escapes past the piston or plunger D escaping in a stream or jet,
as heretofore, through the air-hole when the piston or plunger is being drawn back,
I form a passage F around the outside of the syringe and I form two holes
into this passage for the escape of the air, marked G, communicating with the
inside of the syringe, and the other marked H, which is at the opposite side of the
syringe and communicates with the atmosphere, and thus I ensure that any water
which escapes this way shall only ooze through this last mentioned hole, and thus
I obviate the objections herein-before mentioned. In Fig. 4 I illustrate the
application of my improvements to the nozzle of a garden engine; in Fig. 5 and 6,
to two different forms of hose directors; and in Fig. 7, to an ordinary watering
can, in all of which cases the improved rim or flauge is indicated by the letter K,
and the direction in which the drip water falls off is indicated by the dotted lines
instead of as hitherto passing down the hose, pipe, or spout, and so wetting the
hands and feet of the user.
Although I have only shewn the convex form of my improvod rim or flange, it
must be understood that the same may be of a concave forin, or even in the form
of a disc or flange, or other suitable shape, which will lead off the water and cause
the same to drop away and not run down the outside of the various apparatus
herein before described, and which has hitherto proved the cause of so much
discomfort and annoyance to the user. The improvements are equally applicable
for protecting the operator in using fire engines, also to oil cans and other similar
apparatus.

page_text: Having thus particularly described the nature of this my said Invention,
together with the best means with which I am acquainted for carrying the same
into practical effect, I wish it to be understood that I claim :-
The improvements in or applicable to syringes, garden engines, hose directors,
watering cans, oil cans, fire engines, and other similar apparatus, substantially as
herein before described and illustrated on the accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick Cooper, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty one.
FREDERICK COOPER
FREDERICK GOODED.