An Improved MACHINE OR APPARATUS FOR CARRYING FLEXIBLE PIPE OR HOSE FOR WATERING GARDENS, AND FOR OTHER LIKE PURPOSES
Year: 1874

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Helen Barton at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with her Petition, on the 26th
November 1874.-A communication to me by my late husband
Samuel Barton, who died on the 18th day of February 1874.
I, HELEN BARTON, of Chantry Road, Stockwell, in the County of
Surrey, Widow, Executrix of her husband the late Samuel Barton, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "An Improved
MACHINE OR APPARATUS FOR CARRYING FLEXIBLE PIPE OR HOSE FOR WATERING
GARDENS, AND FOR OTHER LIKE PURPOSES," a communication, to be as
follows:-
This Invention relates to a machine or apparatus for carrying hose or
flexible pipe for watering gardens, croquet lawns, and other grounds, and
for other like purposes.
The said Invention is designed to supply a machine which will
combine simplicity of construction with convenience and efficiency in
carrying and paying out and picking up the hose.
The said Invention is carried into practice as follows:-I construct a
reel or drum of sheet iron or other suitable material and of any con-
yenient dimensions, and with broad or deep flanges at the ends. The

page_text: journals of this drum are supported and turn freely in the bosses or hubs
of two wheels slightly larger in diameter than the said flanges and
whereon the machine is supported and travels. At or near one end of
the said reel or drum there is a hole through its periphery, and one of the
journals of the said reel is hollow, and the hose is passed through the
said hole and hollow journal. The hose is coiled around the said reel
and one end is extended to a cistern or other water supply; the other
end of the said hose which is passed through the aforesaid hole in
the reel and the hollow journal is provided with a nozzle or jet for
distributing the water. The other journal of the said reel or roller:
extends through the travelling wheel and carries a toothed wheel or
pinion. The said travelling wheel also has fixed on it a toothed wheel
or pinon. These two wheels or pinions work side by side in close
proximity to each other, but are unconnected except when geared
together through the medium of two connecting pinions carried on a :
stud or pin arranged parallel with the axis of the reel and carried by
an arm supported on the roller journal. These two pinions are also
disconnected and turn independently of each other except when coupled
together by a locking pin or other device. One of these pinions is
geared with the pinion on the travelling wheel and the other is geared
with the pinion on the journal of the reel. When the said connecting
pinions are unlocked or disconnected the machine will travel backward
or forward without turning the said recl or drum, but when the said
pinions are locked together and the machine is moved the recl or drum
rotates on its axis. The outer pinion is made to slide on its shaft to lock;
or unlock it with the other pinion, and it is formed with a grooved neck
or boss in combination with which is an adjustable bar or arm for
holding the said pinion in either position:
The said machine is provided with a light frame consisting of side
bars supported on the outer ends of the journals of the reel and provided
with a cross bar or hand rail whereby the machine may be conveniently.
moved over the ground. In some instances I provide this frame with
a hinged or jointed cover, which when the said machine is not in use
may be folded over the reel to protect the hose coiled thereon. When
the said machine is being used the said cover is turned down. The hose a
or pipe coiled on the said reel being connected with the cistern or other
water supply, and the reel being thrown out of gear with the travelling.
wheels the machine is moved along over the ground, uncoiling or un-

page_text: winding the said hose as it moves onward, while the water is distributed
through the aforesaid nozzle, jet, or spreader.
When it is desired to pick up the hose the aforesaid connecting
pinions are locked together, the reel then turns on its axis and winds or
coils the hose or pipe upon the same.