US1573439A - Reel for double-hose lines - Google Patents

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US1573439A
US1573439A US3781425A US1573439A US 1573439 A US1573439 A US 1573439A US 3781425 A US3781425 A US 3781425A US 1573439 A US1573439 A US 1573439A
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16L—PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
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    • F16L3/01—Supports for pipes, cables or protective tubing, e.g. hangers, holders, clamps, cleats, clips, brackets for supporting or guiding the pipes, cables or protective tubing, between relatively movable points, e.g. movable channels
    • F16L3/012—Supports for pipes, cables or protective tubing, e.g. hangers, holders, clamps, cleats, clips, brackets for supporting or guiding the pipes, cables or protective tubing, between relatively movable points, e.g. movable channels using reels
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H75/00—Storing webs, tapes, or filamentary material, e.g. on reels
    • B65H75/02—Cores, formers, supports, or holders for coiled, wound, or folded material, e.g. reels, spindles, bobbins, cop tubes, cans, mandrels or chucks
    • B65H75/34—Cores, formers, supports, or holders for coiled, wound, or folded material, e.g. reels, spindles, bobbins, cop tubes, cans, mandrels or chucks specially adapted or mounted for storing and repeatedly paying-out and re-storing lengths of material provided for particular purposes, e.g. anchored hoses, power cables
    • B65H75/38—Cores, formers, supports, or holders for coiled, wound, or folded material, e.g. reels, spindles, bobbins, cop tubes, cans, mandrels or chucks specially adapted or mounted for storing and repeatedly paying-out and re-storing lengths of material provided for particular purposes, e.g. anchored hoses, power cables involving the use of a core or former internal to, and supporting, a stored package of material
    • B65H75/44—Constructional details
    • B65H75/4478—Constructional details relating to handling of fluids
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16L—PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16L39/00—Joints or fittings for double-walled or multi-channel pipes or pipe assemblies
    • F16L39/04—Joints or fittings for double-walled or multi-channel pipes or pipe assemblies allowing adjustment or movement
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2701/00—Handled material; Storage means
    • B65H2701/30—Handled filamentary material
    • B65H2701/33—Hollow or hose-like material
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T137/00—Fluid handling
    • Y10T137/6851—With casing, support, protector or static constructional installations
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10T137/00—Fluid handling
    • Y10T137/6851—With casing, support, protector or static constructional installations
    • Y10T137/6918—With hose storage or retrieval means
    • Y10T137/6921—With means for plural hoses
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T137/00—Fluid handling
    • Y10T137/8593—Systems
    • Y10T137/87153—Plural noncommunicating flow paths

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  • Thisiinvention relates to hose reels and its objecfiist'o provide a convenient construction' of reel' adaptedto carry two separate hose linesf lfi t0 provide inlet connections enabling the" twohose lines to be perinawill allow two different solutions to supas to enable them may be mentioned that fire extinguishing apparatu'sare in general use wherein it is necessary to conduct an acidsolution and an alkaline solution separately through hose lines and" to-allo'w them to min only when they arrive near the pOlI'Tt of ejection through a nozzle: to form a fire extinguishingrfoam; Although the inventionris particula rly applicable to'su'ch apparatus it is not,
  • hearing fen ahosereel at one side is constructed so. that the' one liquid passes throughthe healing and the journal is constrructed'with'two independent passages into with which" the two liquids flow and within the sidepPate ofthe reel the two passages are permanently con-I 'eeted to the two: hose lines.
  • the journal with its passages is preferably made a single casting secured to theside pl ateotthereel one: of the passages being co-axial with the ournal and having a connection with the suppiy" pipe for the one liquidalsorunning co-axially withthe journayl'.
  • Figure 3' is a central vertical section to an enlarged scale through the'journal' formed with the inlet passages showing the connections tor the two liquid supplies;
  • Figure 4 is a vertical section on the line IV -IV in Figure 3; while Figure am apl-an with one half in horizontal section on the line V--V in Fimire 3.
  • the two" solutions" for producing the fire extinguishing foam are supplied through two fined" pipes a and b.
  • the two solutions pass from these pipes through the journal at the rigl'rt-hanjd side of the reel, as viewed in Figure 1.
  • the journal comprises a casting a, wl'ii cl'r issolnewli at annular in shape and iscansed'to protrude outwardly through a central holein the side; plate (Z of the reeL being-placed in position from the inside and then secured by means of four set screws 6 passing through the side plate (2 into the casting c.
  • the right-handend of the'casting c forms the journal proper of the reel and is cast with two concentric passages both co-axial with the journal itself.
  • the central passage f is intended to convey one solution and an outer passage 9 is intended to accommodate the second solution.
  • a pipe h is screwed concentrically into the end of the journal and is connected to the supply pipe 6 by an elbow 7c and a union Z which embodies some form or" water-tight joint, allowing the pipe ing member m within which the journal is free to turn. In order to prevent leakage of the solution between the bearing an and the the ejection nozzle.
  • the plates at, 0 are flanged and can be drawn together by diametrically opposite bolts 7, s so that the whole. arrange- -ment practically constitutes a double stutiing box preventing leakage.
  • the connection between the pipe c and the outer concentric passage 9 is by way of ports t in the outer wall of the journal 0.
  • the two passages f and 9 within the side plate d turn radially outwards in opposite directions and within the open mouths of the passages f and 9 there are screwed respectively a pair of elbow pipes u and the two-hose lines o, w are jointed to the elbow pipes u by means of unions as, y of ordinary construction.
  • the journal or spindle 2 at the opposite end of the hose reel is merely a'plain spindle.
  • the remote ends of the hose lines o, w are brought together in a junction near the discharge nozzle for the foam.
  • a foam producing agent such as licorice or logwood extract
  • aluminium sulphate the solutions flow continually to the hose lines quite separately, irrespective of the length of hose line which is being uncoiled and. it is possible in this way to keep them apart and to prevent the formation of foam resulting from their interaction until they arrive near
  • the necessity of driving the foam through a long pipe line which not only affects detrimentally the quality of the foam, but requires considerably more power, is entirely avoided.
  • 1t may, for example, be arranged that the bearing member m is divided by a cross partition into two distinct elements to which the two liquid supplies may flow, in which case the passages f and 9 instead of being concentric might be segmental in cross section and arranged on opposite sides of the casting 0.
  • a hose reel comprising a drum, side plates to said drum, journals extending beyond the drum at each end thereof, one of said journals having two separate and independent passages formed therein for the reception and delivery of two separate liquids.
  • a hose reel comprising a drum, side plates to said drum,”journals extending beyond the drum at each'end thereof, one of said journals having two separate and independent passages formed therein and extending radially outwards on the inner side of one of the side plates.
  • a hose reel comprising a drum, side plates to said drum, a spindle on which the drum rotates and having end portions extending beyond the drum and forming journals therefor, one of said journals being formed with two separate and independent passages, rotatable joint connections secured to the inlet ends of said passages, fixed supply pipes connected to said joint connections and hose pipes connect-ed to the delivery ends of the passages.
  • a hose reel comprising a drum, side plates to said drum, journals extending beyond the drum at each end thereof, one of said journals being formed as a casting, pro
  • a hosereel having a side plate, a casting with an outwardly flared portion connected to said plate and a horizontal portion forming a journal for the reel and passing through a hole formed in said side plate, said casting having separate andindependent passages formed the-rein, fixed supply pipes connectedto said casting at the inlet ends of the passages and hose pipes connected to said casting at the delivery ends of the passages.
  • Ahose reel having a side plate with a hole formed therein, a casting formed with a pair of passages and having an outwardly flared portion secured to the side plate and a horizontal portion passing through the hole in the plate and forming a journal
  • a hosereel having a side plate formed for the reel, a bearing member making a fluid-tight joint with and rotatably mounted ply pipe connected through a fluid-tight upon the horizontal portion of the casting joint to the intermediate pipe, and hose pipes and communicating with one of the pasconnected to the casting at the delivery ends 10 sages, a fixed supply pipe connected to the of the passages. bearing member, an intermediate pipe se- In Witness whereof I hereunto subscribe cured to the journal and communicating my name this 6th day of June, 1925.

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H. E. BEDFORD REEL FOR DOUIBLE-HOSE LINES Filed Jude 17, 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 I ||lll Feb. 16 1926.
H. E. BEDFORD REEL FOR DOUBLE HOSE muss Filed June 17, 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 m avrm M i I x7770/7NEY9 Patented Feb. 16, 1926 STATES PATENT OFFICE.
HOWARD EDWIN BZEDFOBD, OE LOINDGN, ENGLAND; ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS; T PYRENE-MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, A
., CGRPORA-TION- OF DELAWARE.
REEL FOR DOUBLE-HOSE LINES "App licati'qn filed June 17,: 1925; Serial No. 31314.
T 0 at? am it may concern I Be it that I, HOWARD EDWIN Bin)- 'nently-conne'cted toitwo separate liquid supphes: "Th reis often a need for 'ai-ee'l which noun, a British subject, and resident of 9 Grosvenor Gardens, London, SW. it, ngland; have invented certain new and" useful Improvements" in Reelsfor Double Hose Iii-lies (for which I have filed an application in Great Britain No. 18412/24, dated 1st "August, 19%), 0t which the" following is a specification. I
Thisiinvention relates to hose reels and its objecfiist'o provide a convenient construction' of reel' adaptedto carry two separate hose linesf lfi t0 provide inlet connections enabling the" twohose lines to be perinawill allow two different solutions to supas to enable them may be mentioned that fire extinguishing apparatu'sare in general use wherein it is necessary to conduct an acidsolution and an alkaline solution separately through hose lines and" to-allo'w them to min only when they arrive near the pOlI'Tt of ejection through a nozzle: to form a fire extinguishingrfoam; Although the inventionris particula rly applicable to'su'ch apparatus it is not,
or courselimited to such. k
According to the present invention, the
hearing fen ahosereel at one side is constructed so. that the' one liquid passes throughthe healing and the journal is constrructed'with'two independent passages into with which" the two liquids flow and within the sidepPate ofthe reel the two passages are permanently con-I 'eeted to the two: hose lines. The journal with its passages is preferably made a single casting secured to theside pl ateotthereel one: of the passages being co-axial with the ournal and having a connection with the suppiy" pipe for the one liquidalsorunning co-axially withthe journayl'. The otl'iie-r supply pipe comes in substantially radially throng the hearing n whiehthe journal turns; The liquid it enters byway of ports into an'outer passage in the'journal concentric with the passage and the journal casting is Figure 2 is a side elevation from'the right of' Figure I, the centralportion being shown in sectionon the line II-II in Figure I;
Figure 3' is a central vertical section to an enlarged scale through the'journal' formed with the inlet passages showing the connections tor the two liquid supplies;
Figure 4 is a vertical section on the line IV -IV in Figure 3; while Figure am apl-an with one half in horizontal section on the line V--V in Fimire 3.
The two" solutions" for producing the fire extinguishing foam are supplied through two fined" pipes a and b. The two solutions pass from these pipes through the journal at the rigl'rt-hanjd side of the reel, as viewed in Figure 1. The journal comprises a casting a, wl'ii cl'r issolnewli at annular in shape and iscansed'to protrude outwardly through a central holein the side; plate (Z of the reeL being-placed in position from the inside and then secured by means of four set screws 6 passing through the side plate (2 into the casting c. The right-handend of the'casting c, as seen most clearly in Figure 3, forms the journal proper of the reel and is cast with two concentric passages both co-axial with the journal itself. The central passage f is intended to convey one solution and an outer passage 9 is intended to accommodate the second solution. A pipe h is screwed concentrically into the end of the journal and is connected to the supply pipe 6 by an elbow 7c and a union Z which embodies some form or" water-tight joint, allowing the pipe ing member m within which the journal is free to turn. In order to prevent leakage of the solution between the bearing an and the the ejection nozzle.
I claim as new and desire journal 0, a pair of flanged plates a and o fit upon the journal 0 on either side of the bearing m, and between them and the hearing m there are respectively packing rings 39, g which may be impregnated with graph-,
its and grease. The plates at, 0 are flanged and can be drawn together by diametrically opposite bolts 7, s so that the whole. arrange- -ment practically constitutes a double stutiing box preventing leakage. The connection between the pipe c and the outer concentric passage 9 is by way of ports t in the outer wall of the journal 0.
As can be seen clearly in Figure 3, the two passages f and 9 within the side plate d turn radially outwards in opposite directions and within the open mouths of the passages f and 9 there are screwed respectively a pair of elbow pipes u and the two-hose lines o, w are jointed to the elbow pipes u by means of unions as, y of ordinary construction.
The journal or spindle 2 at the opposite end of the hose reel is merely a'plain spindle. The remote ends of the hose lines o, w are brought together in a junction near the discharge nozzle for the foam. Thus if one solution is a solution of sodium bicarbonate containing a foam producing agent, such as licorice or logwood extract, and the other solution is aluminium sulphate, the solutions flow continually to the hose lines quite separately, irrespective of the length of hose line which is being uncoiled and. it is possible in this way to keep them apart and to prevent the formation of foam resulting from their interaction until they arrive near Thus the necessity of driving the foam through a long pipe line, which not only affects detrimentally the quality of the foam, but requires considerably more power, is entirely avoided.
The construction described is merely by way of example and the invention is not limited to the precise construction shown. 1t may, for example, be arranged that the bearing member m is divided by a cross partition into two distinct elements to which the two liquid supplies may flow, in which case the passages f and 9 instead of being concentric might be segmental in cross section and arranged on opposite sides of the casting 0.
Having thus described my invention, what to secure by Letters Patent is 1 i 1. A hose reel comprising a drum, side plates to said drum, journals extending beyond the drum at each end thereof, one of said journals having two separate and independent passages formed therein for the reception and delivery of two separate liquids.
2. A hose reel comprising a drum, side plates to said drum,"journals extending beyond the drum at each'end thereof, one of said journals having two separate and independent passages formed therein and extending radially outwards on the inner side of one of the side plates.
3. A hose reel comprising a drum, side plates to said drum, a spindle on which the drum rotates and having end portions extending beyond the drum and forming journals therefor, one of said journals being formed with two separate and independent passages, rotatable joint connections secured to the inlet ends of said passages, fixed supply pipes connected to said joint connections and hose pipes connect-ed to the delivery ends of the passages. V
7 4:. A hose reel comprising a drum, side plates to said drum, journals extending beyond the drum at each end thereof, one of said journals being formed as a casting, pro
vided with a pair of "concentric and independent passages, an intermediate pipe secured to the journal andconcentric with one of the passages and a water-tight jointing member rotatably connecting the intermediate pipe to av fixed supply pipe, a bearing rotatably mounted upon the journal and communicating with the other passage and a fixed supply pipe connected to said bearmg.
a. with a hole therein, a casting secured to the side plate and having ahorizontal portion protruding through said hole and formed with separate and independent passages,
fixed supply pipes connected to said casting at'the inletends of said passages, and-hose pipes connected to said casting at the delivery ends of said passages.
6. A hosereel having a side plate, a casting with an outwardly flared portion connected to said plate and a horizontal portion forming a journal for the reel and passing through a hole formed in said side plate, said casting having separate andindependent passages formed the-rein, fixed supply pipes connectedto said casting at the inlet ends of the passages and hose pipes connected to said casting at the delivery ends of the passages.
7. Ahose reel having a side plate with a hole formed therein, a casting formed with a pair of passages and having an outwardly flared portion secured to the side plate and a horizontal portion passing through the hole in the plate and forming a journal A hosereel having a side plate formed for the reel, a bearing member making a fluid-tight joint with and rotatably mounted ply pipe connected through a fluid-tight upon the horizontal portion of the casting joint to the intermediate pipe, and hose pipes and communicating with one of the pasconnected to the casting at the delivery ends 10 sages, a fixed supply pipe connected to the of the passages. bearing member, an intermediate pipe se- In Witness whereof I hereunto subscribe cured to the journal and communicating my name this 6th day of June, 1925.
with the other passage, a second fixed sup- HOWARD EDWIN BEDFORD.
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US2457366A (en) * 1946-08-29 1948-12-28 Towmotor Corp Industrial truck
US2485723A (en) * 1946-10-07 1949-10-25 Chester A Fitzgerald Fire-fighting apparatus
US2615755A (en) * 1949-06-07 1952-10-28 Harvey B Crawford Hose reel
US3467134A (en) * 1967-01-03 1969-09-16 Aero Motive Mfg Co Dual hydraulic reel
US3499266A (en) * 1968-11-13 1970-03-10 Mobil Oil Corp Marine oil-gas separator
US4915416A (en) * 1986-11-27 1990-04-10 The British Petroleum Company P.L.C. Underwater oil production
US5303866A (en) * 1992-09-11 1994-04-19 Hawks Jr Bill J Integrated modular spraying system
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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2457366A (en) * 1946-08-29 1948-12-28 Towmotor Corp Industrial truck
US2485723A (en) * 1946-10-07 1949-10-25 Chester A Fitzgerald Fire-fighting apparatus
US2615755A (en) * 1949-06-07 1952-10-28 Harvey B Crawford Hose reel
US3467134A (en) * 1967-01-03 1969-09-16 Aero Motive Mfg Co Dual hydraulic reel
US3499266A (en) * 1968-11-13 1970-03-10 Mobil Oil Corp Marine oil-gas separator
US4915416A (en) * 1986-11-27 1990-04-10 The British Petroleum Company P.L.C. Underwater oil production
US5303866A (en) * 1992-09-11 1994-04-19 Hawks Jr Bill J Integrated modular spraying system
US6543484B1 (en) * 2000-08-15 2003-04-08 Roderick Highsmith Waste water disposal system
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