Improvements in Reels for Hose Pipes.
Year: 1896

page_text: 1, JAMES COMPTON MERRYWEATHER, of Greenwich Road, Greenwich, S.E.
in the County of Kent, Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
My improvements relate to the construction of reels for hose and are intended to
facilitate the laying out and reeling up of the hose.
One method of carrying out my invention specially applicable to those cases in
which the whole length of hose is charged with water and lengthened or shortened
as required, is as follows;-
A horse-shoe bend of metal tubing is fixed to the outer surface of the winding
drum, having its two ends pointing in the same direction. Two separate lengths
of hose are attached, one to each of the outlets of the horse-shoe bend. Upon
rotating the reel both lengths of hose are wound simultaneously upon the reel in
the same direction. If one end of the hose leading from the bottom of the reel is
attached to some fixed point, such as a water cock, the other end may be drawn
out as required from the top of the reel, the water flowing continuously through
the hose and the reel travelling along to the length of one half the hose. To reel up
the hose the reel is rotated in the opposite direction, travelling to the fixed point,
when both parts are on the reel as before.
In some cases instead of the horse-shoe bend described I use a pipe placed
diametrically across the reel, to the two ends of which the two lines of hose are
attached, and in some cases I dispense with the metal bend, and bend the hose itself
in order to reverse the relative direction of the two ends.
The reel itself may be made to roll on its edges along the ground, in which case
its rotation winds up or pays out the hose, or it may be fixed on a carriage with
two or more wheels.
Dated thin 12th 1
1000
J. C. MERRYWEATHER.
Improvements in Reels for Hose Pipes.
I, JAMES COMPTON MERRYWEATHER, of Greenwich Road, Greenwich, in the
County of Kent, Engineer, 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 improvements relate to the construction of reels for hose and are intended to
facilitate the laying out and reeling up of the hose.
One method of carrying out my invention, specially applicable to those cases in
which the whole length of hose is charged with water and lengthened or shortened
as required, is as follows;-
A horse-shoe bend of metal tubing is fixed to the outer surface of the winding

page_text: drum, having its two ends pointing in the same direction. Two separate lengths of
hose are attached, one to each of the outlets of the horse-shoe bend. Upon rotating
the reel both lengths of hose are wound simultaneously upon the reel in the same
direction. If one end of the hose leading from the bottom of the reel is attached
to some fixed point, such as a water cock, the other end may be drawn out as
required from the top of the reel, the water flowing continuously through the hose
and the reel travelling along to the length of one half the hose. To reel up the
hose the reel is rotated in the opposite direction, travelling to the fixed point, when
both parts are on the reel as before.
In some cases, instead of the horse-shoe bend described, I use a pipe placed
diametrically across the reel, to the two ends of which the two lines of hose are
attached, and in some cases I dispense with the metal bend and bend the hose itself
in order to reverse the relative direction of the two ends.
The reel itself may be made to roll on its edges along the ground, in which case
its rotation winds up or pays out the hose, or it may be fixed on a carriage with
two or more wheels.
The accompanying sheet of drawings represents one method of carrying out my
improvements ;-
In Figures 1 and 2,-A represents the ground line, B and C represent the inlet
and outlet pipes, one of which is attached to the water supply and the other to the
branch pipe or distributing apparatus. D is the horse-shoe bend for reversing the
direction of the attached hose.
The action of the apparatus is as follows,-
Water flows from C to B, or vice versa, through the coils of pipe on the reel E
and round the horse-shoe bend D. By causing the reel E to roll along the ground
the hose pipes F. F. are coiled or uncoiled from the reel E, thus varying the free
length of the hose F without interrupting the flow of water.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is ;-
1. The construction of a hose reel substantially as described in reference to
Figures 1 and 2, in which the hose may be coiled or uncoiled without interfering
with the flow of water.
2. The use of a tubing, the direction of which is changed at a convenient
portion of its length so that the two ends may be simultaneously coiled or
uncoiled.
3. The construction of a hydraulic hose reel without the use of a gland or other
packed joint.
J. C. MERRYWEATHER.