AN IMPROVED SPRAY- DISTRIBUTER
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Emil Meyerstein, of Union Bank Buildings, Holborn
Circus, in the City of London, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED SPRAY-
DISTRIBUTER." A communication from abroad by Julius Marx Heine & Co.,
of Leipsic, in the Empire of Germany.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Emil Meyerstein at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 15th December 1879.
EMIL MEYERSTEIN, of Union Bank Buildings, Holborn Circus, in the City of
London. "AN IMPROVED SPRAY-DISTRIBUTER." (A communication from abroad by
Julius Marx Heine & Co., of Leipsic, in the Empire of Germany.)
The object of the Invention is to obtain a pliable outlet tube to the spray
distributer which will admit of the outlet being pointed to deliver the spray in any
desired direction and which will retain that position as long as required without
necessitating its being held
For this purpose the distributer consists of a hard rubber or such like composition
internal tube, one part, that which descends downwards through an extension of
the plug to the reservoir, is of larger diameter than the upper part, which rising
through that plug terminates at its end in the nipple.
The portion of this internal tube from the plug to the nipple is of small diameter
and very flexible and is enclosed by a tube of thin tin and this tin tube is again
covered by a tube of flexible and elastic prepared india rubber or other suitable
material terminating with the discharge nipple.
The upper portion of the plug above the reservoir is provided with an inlet
passage to receive one end of a piece of flexible piping, the other end of which is
attached to a flexible air vessel or vessels or to a mouth piece by which the air may
be injected for the forcing out of the liquid from the reservoir for the desired spray.
The combined tube from the plug of the reservoir to the nipple may thus be bent
for the discharge outlet to point in any direction as desired.
One or more of such composite distributing tubes may be employed to each
reservoir and plug and the operator will be enabled to bend the tubes so as to make
their respective sprays converge on one point or otherwise.
In use the air passing from the inlet passage passes into the reservoir and pressing
upon the contained liquid forces it up the inner tube which reaches below its surface,
and thence it is discharged at the nipple whilst a portion of the air from anch inlet
passes between the outside of the inner tube and the inner side of the outer tube
to the nipple where it is deflected onto the outflowing liquid with force, and spray
is produced.
In place of air being forced into the reservoir and outer tube to produce the
spray steam may be employed.

page_text: the tube of flexible and elastic india rubber or other suitable material covering the
tin tube c.
The upper portion of the plug b above the bottle or vessel acting as the reservoir
is provided with the inlet passage b³ to receive one end of a piece of flexible tube
from a flexible air vessel or bellows or from a mouth piece or other source to supply
air to the interior of the plug b, or steam may if desired be supplied by the inlet
passage b³ to the interior of the plug b.
The outer end of the portion of the tube a² opens within the nipple d.
This upper portion of the apparatus, which may be designated as the composite
pliable distributing tube A, is capable of being bent in various directions, some of
which are indicated by the dotted lines A', A¹, and in whatever position these
distributing tubes may be bent they are capable of retaining that position during
the will of the operator to distribute their spray in a particular direction until
rebent for the purpose of distributing the spray in a fresh direction.
Figures 3, 4, and 5, represent respectively a plan view, an external side view,
and side view partly in section of a modification of the above, in which three
composite distributing tubes A are employed, each of which is capable of being bent
in any direction, as stated in respect of the previous Figures.
In this illustration there is a separate upper portion of tube a¹ to each composite
tube A, but all the portions a¹ unite at their lower ends in one portion a, though
this may be varied as may also the number of composite distributing tubes A
employed. Figure 6 represents a transverse section of one of the distributing
tubes A looking towards the nipple d.
In the use of apparatus such as described the air or aeriform fluid passing from the
inlet passage b³ passes into the reservoir and pressing upon the contained liquid forces
that liquid up the inner tube a, a', which tube a reaches below the surface of such
liquid and thence that liquid is discharged at the nipple whilst a portion of the air
from such inlet 63 passes between the outside of the inner tube a' and the inner side
of the outer tube c to the nipple & where it is deflected onto the outflowing liquid
from the tube a' with force, and spray is produced.
6' represents by dotted lines the position of a tap which may be employed when
an accumulation of air pressure is desired.
In place of air being forced into the reservoir and outer tube to produce the spray
steam may be employed.
Having thus described the Invention as communicated to me I would have it
understood that I do not confine myself to the precise details referred to as the
same may be varied, but what I do claim. is, the arranging or combining parts
forming a spray distributer whereby a pliable outlet tube or series of tubes is
obtained for the distribution of the spray in any desired direction, and which dis-
tributing tube or tubes is or are capable of being retained or varied in position as
desired, substantially as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Emil Meyerstein, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Fourteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand
Witness,
ALFRED G BROOKES,
59, Chancery Lane,
London.
E. MEYERSTEIN. (LS.)