Improvements in or connected with Hose Carriages.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 29th July, 1897-Accepted, 20th Nov., 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Hose Carriages.
I, CARL JOHANN THEODOR BINDEL, of 27 Grosse Wollwebergasse Dantzic in
the Empire of Germany, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement:—–
This invention has for its object a hose carriage which serves for conveying
hosepipes, but is more particularly intended for supporting long and heavy hose-
pipes during use in such a way that they are protected as much as possible whilst
they are still allowed a free movement.
This improved hose carriage is shown in various forms of construction and
detail in the accompanying drawings, in which,
Figure 1 is a side view of the hose carriage in a frame;
Figure 2 a front view of the same;
Figure 3 shows a hose carriage with high wheels in which the axle of the wheel
coincides with the axle of the drum;
Figures 4 and 5 show two forms of construction of the stuffing box bearings;
Figures 6 and 7 show two other forms of construction of the hose carriage;
Figure 8 is a perspective view illustrating the mode of using a hose carriage
such as shown in Figure 7.
In Figures 1-3 a is the drum on which the hose pipe is wound in adjacent
coils which are limited at both ends by cheeks or sides b. Handles c serve for
rotating the drum and accordingly for rolling or winding up the hosepipe after
the same has been used. e is a hollow spindle with which the drum a is firmly
connected and from which branch nozzles f for the attachment of the hosepipe
to be coiled round the drum.
In the form of construction shown in Figures 1, 2, 6 and 7, the hollow shaft e
extends at both sides into stuffing boxes g which form at the same time a support
or bearing for the respective ends of the shaft. An overturned nut h prevents
any sideways displacement of the stuffing box on the hollow shaft in the forms
of construction with high wheels, (Figure 3), but this arrangement is not neces-
sary in the forms of construction shown in Figures 1, 2 and 7.
The stuffing box neck i serves at its outer end to receive one part of a hosepipe
coupling by means of which the hollow shaft is connected with the hosepipe
coming from the hydrant. As the pipe from the hydrant of course only requires
to be attached to one end of the hollow shaft e, the other end of the same may be
closed simply to the outside by means of a screw stopper which is screwed into
the stuffing box i.
It is also unnecessary to arrange the stuffing box at both sides of the drum
shaft. One of them may be equally well replaced by an ordinary socket or bear-
ing, and the shaft may be tightly closed up by any ordinary means.
If the hosepipe be coiled from off the drum a, the shaft e will rotate with it
and run unimpededly in the stuffing box or stuffing boxes g. The water may,

page_text: as shown in Figure 4, enter the same uninterruptedly through the stuffing box i
in spite of the rotation of the shaft g.
Figures 1 and 2 show a form of construction in side and front view in which
the details herein before enumerated are employed. In this case the hose drum
rests in a frame & which is portable by tipping up the whole frame by the handles m
on the little travelling wheels 7. In order that the drum a may not rotate when
it is not desired to do so, two ratchet wheels are mounted on the shaft e, the
teeth of which are pitched in opposite directions. In each of these ratchet wheels
a pawl o may engage so that the ratchet cannot rotate during the transport either
in one or the other direction.
In the form of construction shown in Figure 3 the high travelling wheels are
revoluble on the stuffing boxes g which are carried through the wheel naves. The
handles m serving for propelling the apparatus engage by means of simple eye-
lets directly on the hollow shaft c. An over turned nut prevents in this case
also any longitudinal movement of the stuffing boxes and wheels on the hollow
shaft c.
In order to enable two hosepipes to discharge simultaneously from a hydrant,
two drums a', a², are employed in the form of construction shown in Figure 6,
which drums are mounted in a frame on both sides of the shaft q of the carriage
frame.
q
The two hollow spindles c¹ e² are connected with the hollow carriage axle
by means of tubular connections. The ends of the axle q are provided with
the necessary fittings for connecting with the hydrant pipe. The water flows
from the hydrant through the connecting pipe to the hollow shaft g, is divided
in the latter and reaches the pipes on the drums ee through the branch pipes t¹ (2
over the hollow shafts el e and the branches f' f. In consequence of this arrange-
ment two jets can be thrown with only one hydrant pipe and a very large extent
can be rapidly watered.
Figure 7 shows on the other hand a form of construction of the hose carriage
in a portable frame in which two hosepipe drums a¹ a² are employed, the axle of
one being placed as a prolongation of the other. The shafts ele² are hollowed
out through their entire length. This form af construction may be used in'
many ways, as the hose carriage similarly to those previously described may be
employed for throwing simultaneously a jet with two nozzles, the water coming
through the hydrant hosepipe being conveyed by the coupled hollow shafts c¹ e²
through branches f¹f to the two hosepipes on the drums. The other open
side of the hollow shaft e¹ is of course closed in some suitable manner.
A further mode of employment as shown in Figure 8, is afforded by this form
of construction through the fact that two hosepipes may be coupled to form a very
great length of pipe by means of the two drums a¹ a². The pipe of the one drum a
brings the water from the hydrant stand pipe through the hollow shafts ele
of drum a3 and thus to the second pipe which ends with the jet or nozzle. The
hollow shafts e¹ e² are in the latter case of course closed at their outer ends. Any
undesired rotation of the hosepipe drums is in this case also prevented by means
of two ratchets with teeth set in opposite directions.
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:
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1. A hosepipe carriage, characterized by a horizontally mounted drum (a) having
a hollow shaft (e) by means of which water is conveyed to the hosepipe which is
wound thereon in adjacent coils, said hollow shaft being revoluble in stuffing
boxes (g) which serve also as bearings or wheel-mave and the water being con-
veyed to the hollow shaft by means of an attachment or connecting pipe coupled
with the stuffing boxes, substantially as hereinbefore described.
2. A hosepipe carriage such as described, characterized by its drums being

page_text: capable of being secured against undesired rotation by means of two ratchets (n o)
having teeth pitched in opposite directions, substantially as described.
3. A hosepipe carriage such as described, characterized by the hollow shafts (e)
of two or more hosepipe drums being connected in such a way that the respective
hoses may be employed connected one behind the other as shown in Figure 8 or
parallel to one another as shown in Figure 6.
Doted th: 0041 ] T.1100
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.