An Improved Apparatus for Extinguishing Fires.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Oct., 1893-Accepted, 3rd Feb., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Apparatus for Extinguishing Fires.
I, MARTIN WIELANDT, of 49 Köpenickerstrasse, Berlin, in the Empire of
Germany, Engineer, 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 :-
This invention relates to an improved apparatus for extinguishing fires, and it
consists of a water-throwing can combined with a hand pump or syringe the handle
of which also serves as one of the handles of the can, the object being to obtain in
one article two necessary articles for fire extinguishing.
I attain this end by the construction shown in the accompanying drawing, in
which :-
Figure 1 is a view in vertical section of my improved apparatus.
Figure 2 is a view in elevation thereof, and
Figure 3 is a view in plan thereof.
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Throughout the views similar parts are marked with like letters of reference
The water-throwing_can "a" is made of any suitable sheet metal and it is
provided as shown by Figure 1, with a cover "b" which is hinged to the top
of the can.
The cover "6" is inclined with relation to the vertical axis as shown
and it has a projecting part "6" on its inner side.
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With the can there is combined a detachable hand pump or syringe for use in
cases where it would be dangerous or impossible to approach too near to the fire
with the throwing-can. The hand pump or syringe consists of a cylinder "d"
fitted in a socket a' in the back of the can "a" and provided with a piston "d"
and a piston rod "d" which passes through the top of the cylinder "d" and is
provided with a transverse handle "h." The cylinder "d" is provided with any
suitable delivery nozzle such as "d"."
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To enable the handle "/" to serve also as one of the handles of the can "a"
there are provided on the outside of the can two hooks "e" and "e" with which
the handle "" of the hand pump or syringe can be engaged, to make it rigid
with the can, by twisting it sideways the hooks facing in opposite directions as
shown by Figure 2.
When it is desired to employ the throwing-can the handle "h" is engaged with
the hooks "e" and "e" and is then held in the left hand, while the handle """
on the lower end of the can is grasped by the right hand.
In pouring the water on to the fire, the cover will by reason of its weight and
of the peculiar form of its inner surface exert a certain pressure upon the out-
flowing water and thus cause it to assume the form of a broad but thin stream
which is much more effective in extinguishing a fire than if the entire contents of
a pail were thrown in bulk into the fire.
I wish it to be particularly understood that I do not limit myself to the precise
details of construction herein before described and illustrated by the accompanying
drawing, but that I hold myself at liberty to make such changes and alterations as
fairly fall within the spirit and scope of my invention.
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. The improved apparatus for extinguishing fires, as herein before described and

page_text: 2. An apparatus for extinguishing fire, consisting of a can having a fixed handle
at its lower end, a hinged cover at its top (the said cover having an inclined inner
surface), and a socket to carry a hand pump or syringe the piston rod of which
carries a handle capable of being engaged with hooks on the can to so fix it that it
serves as the other handle of the can, as set forth.
Dated this 31st day of October 1893.
ROBT. ED. PHILLIPS, M.I.M.E.,
Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent,
70, Chancery, Lane, London, W.C., Associate Agent.