Improvements relating to Fire-pails and Attachments thereto.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 29th May, 1894-Accepted, 30th June, 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Fire-pails and Attachments thereto.
I, FRANK BARKER COMINS of 111 Pine Street Providence, in the County of
Providence and State of Rhode Island, one of the United States of America,
Inventor, 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 improvements in fire pails for the purpose of
extinguishing incipient or early fires in buildings etc., and it consists in connection
with an ordinary fire pail of a cover having a slotted delivery nozzle with tapering
contracted sides for the purpose of causing the water in the pail when thrown upon
a fire, to issue in the form of a sheet of great extinguishing power and effect
which can be directed accurately by the operator in the desired direction by which
unnecessary waste of water is avoided and the efficacy of the pail as a fire
extinguisher is materially increased as will hereinafter be more fully shown and
described, reference being had to the accompanying drawings where ;-
Fig. 1 represents a side elevation of a fire pail provided with my improved cover
and delivery nozzle.
Fig. 2 represents a top plan view thereof, and
Fig. 3 represents a central longitudinal section of the same.
Similar letters refer to similar parts wherever they occur on the different parts of
the drawings.
A represents an ordinary fire pail made of wood, fibre, metal or other material
and provided with a hinged bail B, as usual.
To the upper open end of the pail A, I attach in a suitable manner permanently
or otherwise a preferably tapering or inclined cover C, extending upwardly as a
tapering or inclined and laterally elongated or flattened delivery nozzle D, having
a slotted delivery mouth or opening d at its upper end as shown in the drawings.
From the above it will be seen that the water as it is thrown out of the pail is
ejected through the flattened mouth d in the form of a sheet of more or less
thickness which may be accurately directed against the fire to be extinguished,
thus making the throw of water very effective and preventing unnecessary waste
of water in the pail. With ordinary fire pails the contents thereof is wastefully
ejected at a single throw necessitating a constant refilling of such pails, whereas with
my hood or cover attachment thereto, the contents of the pail can be successively
ejected in the form of a powerful sheet or flattened body of water which can
easily be directed to the desired spot or place by the operator, thus preventing a
waste of water and increasing the effective power of a pail as a ready fire
extinguisher.
The cover may be permanently attached to the top of the pail or be removable
therefrom for refilling if so desired without departing from the spirit of my
invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
As a new article of manufacture, the herein described cover and nozzle for fire
pails, consisting of a rigid truncated-cone-shaped base C, provided with an open

page_text: elongated flattened and gradually tapering nozzle D having parallel edges and an
elongated slotted delivery mouth for ejecting the contents of the pail in a broad
flat sheet substantially as shown and for the purpose specified.
Dated the 90th Jan of MA. 1901
R. HADDAN,
Of the Firm of Herbert Haddan & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.