Improvements in Combined Apparatus for Discharging Water Jets and Sprays.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 26th June, 1886.
Complete Left, 21st Mar, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 22nd Apr., 1887.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Combined Apparatus for Discharging Water Jets
and Sprays.
I JOHN COCKBURN of No. 3 Thistle Place in the City of Edinburgh Foreman to
North British Rubber Coy. Limited do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
My invention has for object to cheapen the cost of production and lessen the
twin water
liability to derangement of apparatus of the kind known as Barton's
director," in which a key or plug similar to that of an ordinary tap is connected to a
tube adapted for attachment to a hose pipe and has fitted upon it a casing provided
with a nozzle serving for the discharge of a solid water jet and a rose serving for the
discharge of water in the form of spray the casing being movable on the plug to bring
either of the discharge orifices in it opposite a water way in the plug or into a
position in which the water way is closed.
In lieu of forming the nozzle and the rose in separate parts and screwing or simi-
larly attaching them to the tap casing I cast the casing the nozzle and the rose all in
one piece with the exception of the perforated plate of the rose which is screwed or
similarly secured upon the rose branch. The nozzle and rose branches are at right
angles to each other or nearly so and normal to the axis on which the casing turns
and the parts which require to be turned or finished in a lathe are thus readily acces-
sible. By so forming the apparatus leakage taking place at the screwed joints,
stripping of the screw threads, loss of the parts and other derangements commonly
experienced in the ordinary form of "twin director" are avoided and considerable
saving of time and cost is effected in the construction of the apparatus.
Dated this Twenty fifth day of June 1886.
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
Glasgow, Agents.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Combined Apparatus for Discharging Water Jets
and Sprays.
I, JOHN COCKBURN of No. 3 Thistle Place, in the City of Edinburgh, Foreman to
North British Rubber Coy. Limited, 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:—
My invention has for object to cheapen the cost of production and lessen the
liability to derangement of apparatus of the kind known as Barton's "twin water
director, in which a key or plug similar to that of an ordinary tap is connected
to a tube adapted for attachment to a hose pipe and has fitted upon it a casing pro-
vided with a nozzle serving for the discharge of a solid water jet and a rose serving
for the discharge of water in the form of spray the casing being movable on the plug
to bring either of the discharge orifices in it opposite a water way in the plug, or into
a position in which the water way is closed.
The accompanying drawings illustrate in section and elevation at figures 1 and 2 a
twin water director constructed in accordance with my invention in which in lieu of
forming the nozzle and the rose in separate parts and screwing or similarly attaching
them to the tap casing 1 cast the barrel or casing A, the nozzle B and the rose C all
all in one piece with the exception of the perforated plate c of the rose which is
screwed or similarly secured upon the rose branch. The nozzle and rose branches
B and C are at right angles to each other or nearly so and normal to the axis of the
key or plug D on which the casing A turns.
The tube E, which is adapted for attachment to a rubber hose pipe is screwed as
usual into the key or plug and either a solid jet or a spray of water may be
discharged through the apparatus by turning the casing A to bring the jet orifice bor
the orifice c¹ in the rose branch into line with the orifice d in the plug D, while on
turning the casing to the position shown in figure 1, the water way is entirely closed.
The parts which require to be turned or finished in a lathe are thus readily acces-
sible, and by so forming the apparatus leakage taking place at the screwed joints,
stripping of the screw threads, loss of the parts and other derangements commonly
experienced in the ordinary form of twin director" are avoided, and considerable
saving of time and cost is effected in the construction of the apparatus.
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 :-
A twin water director having the jet and rose branches cast or formed in a piece
with the movable barrel or casing substantially as herein described with reference to
the drawings annexed.
Dated this Nineteenth day of March 1887.