Improvements in Garden Hoses.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Jan., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 27th Aug., 1894-Accepted, 29th Sept., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Garden Hoses.
I, FRANZ CLOUTH, of Cologne-Pippes, Gerinany, Manufacturer of India
Rubber Goods, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
For watering the lawn turf and moss beds grown in nursery and other gardens,
forced plants, shrubberies, and bushes, watering hoses provided with a rose are
generally made use of, but besides not being everywhere utilizable these hoses have
the defect of having to be supported on a frame which is frequently of considerable
weight, thus damaging to some extent the turf over which they are carried, while
the cost of manufacture of these machines is generally very high.
My improved hose is manufactured in the following manner;-In an ordinary
india rubber tube are arranged at any suitable intervals little cylinders of soft or
hard rubber inserted in suitable openings formed in the hose. These cylinders
which may be also made of metal, or of any other suitable material are vulcanized at
the same time as the hose so as to be firmly fixed in the substance of the latter.
The cylinders are centrally bored to allow for the passage of the water.
position of these holes can be marked with a strip of colour so as to readily indicate
them and prevent their having to be searched for.
The
The hose can be used in an extended position in the form of one round coil, or in
the serpentine form, so as to conform to the shape of the lawn or turf bed which is
to be watered. By these means a more uniform and thorough watering can be
obtained than by the watering appliances hitherto used. Moreover with a hose of
this description, a larger surface can be watered than heretofore, while the resilient
material of which it is made allows to give the jets any suitable direction, as the
parts in which the holes are forined can be turned at will and held in their position
by means of hooks, stones, or the like.
In making the holes, they can have any suitable dimension so that the jets may
be of the thickness required, it will however be preferable for the uses above
mentioned to make the holes as small as possible, so that the water may fall in the
form of a spray upon the grass or plants; independent of the fact that with such an
appliance a more thorough efficient watering can be obtained at a comparatively low
cost than with the various apparatus hitherto used.
The hose requires no watching after being laid in the desired position, it being
held in the said position by two weighted plates arranged at the ends, or other
parts of the same.
Dated this 8th day of January 1804
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Franz Clouth.
CUMFLUID DI BUITIA
Improvements in Garden Hoses.
I, FRANZ CLOUTH, of Cologne-Pippes, Germany, Manufacturer of India
Rubber Goods, 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 :-
For watering the lawn turf and moss beds grown in nursery and other gardens,

page_text: forced plants, shrubberies and bushes, watering hoses provided with a rose are
generally made use of, but besides not being everywhere utilizable these hoses have
the defect of having to be supported on a frame which is frequently of considerable
weight, thus damaging to some extent the turf over which they are carried, while
the cost of manufacture of these machines is generally very high.
The watering hose shown in the accompanying drawings has for its object to
remedy the above defects.
Figure 1 is a view of a portion of the hose.
Figure 2 is a longitudinal section of same.
Figures 3, 4, and 5 illustrate the different positions in which the hose can be used.
My improved hose is manufactured in the following manner:-
In an ordinary india rubber tube bare arranged at any suitable intervals little
cylinders, eyelets, or sockets a of soft or hard rubber inserted in suitable openings
formed in the hose.
These cylinders which may be also made of metal or of any other suitable material
are vulcanized at the same time as the hose so as to be firmly fixed in the substance
of the latter.
The cylinders are centrally bored at c to allow for the passage of the water. The
position of these holes can be marked with a strip of colour so as to readily indicate
them and prevent their having to be searched for.
The hose can be used in an extended position Figure 3 in the form of one round
coil Figure 4, or in the serpentine form shown in Figure 5 so as to conform to the
shape of the lawn or turf bed which is to be watered. By these means a more
uniform and thorough watering can be obtained than by the watering appliances
hitherto used. Moreover with a hose of this description, a larger surface can be
watered than heretofore, whilst the resilient material of which it is made allows to
give the jets any suitable direction as the parts in which the holes are formed can be
turned at will and held in their position by means of hooks, stones, or the like.
In making the holes, they can have any suitable dimension, so that the jets may
be of the thickness required, it will however be preferable for the uses above
mentioned to make the holes as small as possible, so that the water may fall in the
form of a spray upon the grass or plants.
Independent of the fact that with such an appliance a more thorough efficient
watering can be obtained at a comparatively low cost than with the various
apparatus hitherto used, the hose requires no watching after being laid in the desired
position, it being held in the said position by two weighted plates arranged at the
ends, or other parts of the same.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
Providing a hose at suitable intervals with perforated cylinders, eyelets, or sockets
inserted in its walls and consisting of hard india rubber or of other suitable material
for watering purposes, as set forth.
The 27th day of August 1894.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Franz Clouth.