US2065549A

US2065549A - Spray deflector

Info

Publication number: US2065549A
Application number: US63661A
Authority: US
Inventors: Balensiefer Frank
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1936-02-12
Filing date: 1936-02-12
Publication date: 1936-12-29
Anticipated expiration: 1953-12-29

Description

Dell 29, 1936- F. BALENSIEFER 29065549 SPRAY DEFLECTOR Filed Feb. 12 1936 Y venlor Patented Dec. 29, 1936 UNITED STATES PATENT DFFICE 2 Claims.

This invention is a spray attachment or deflector adapted to be readily attached to the nozzle of a garden hose or the like so that as the water issuing from the nozzle strikes the spray attachment or deflector it will be fed into a Wide stream or sheet and be discharged from the deector in a shower or spray.

An object of the present invention is to provide a spray or deector attachment which may be cheaply and economically constructed from a single piece of metal and which will include in addition to the deilector per se simple and eilicient means for readily attaching the deector to the nozzle or for removing the delector therefrom, together with nger accommodating means for readily manipulating the deflector to rotate the latter about the nozzle as an axis to any angle desired and to control to a material extent the eiiectiveness of the attachment.

The invention together with its objects and advantages will be best understood from a study oi' the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing wherein:

Figure l is a perspective View of the attachment, and

Figure 2 is a plan View of the blank from which the attachment is formed.

Referring to the drawing by reference numerals it will be seen that in the preferred embodiment thereof the attachment is formed from a single blank of sheet metal or the like cut, shaped and dimensioned to provide a substantially segmental shaped deilector 5 which at its smallest end is integral with a plate 6 that has an end portion 'I extending therefrom in alinement With the deflector 5 and which is adapted to be rolled upon itself in a manner clearly shown in Figure 1 to provide a nger accommodating sleeve la extending transversely to the axis of the dei-lector and consequently of the nozzle.

The plate 6 slightly inwardly from the end thereof integral with the deflector 5 has also projecting from opposite sides thereof integral elongated spring ngers 8 which are adapted to be rolled into overlapping engagement as shown in Figure 1 to provide an expansible and contractible sleeve or socket 9 adapted to receive the discharge end of a hose nozzle (not shown). It will be noted in connection with the extensions 8 that the same are of such a length that the socket 9 may be expanded a considerable degree while at the same time permitting an overlapping of the end portions of the members 8. This constant overlapping of the end portions of the members 8 is desirable since the same tends to prevent undue expansion of the socket and at the same time tends to cause the socket to normally contract about the hose nozzle in a manner to maintain suicient frictional engagement therewith as not to permit a too easy rotation of the attachment about the hose nozzle.

The deflector per se extends at an obtuse angle to the plane of the plate 6 and at its Widest end has an arcuate edge l0 conducive to a pressing of the plate 5 into the form shown in Figure 1 and in a manner to provide a rib Il extending along the longitudinal median of the deector 5 and grooves I2 extending somewhat diagonally inwardly from the edge I0 toward the smallest end of the plate 5; it being understood that the portions I3 of the plate at opposite sides of the rib Il are disposed in anti-clinal relation providing inclined surfaces merging into the grooves l2 while the edge portions I4 of the plate are in sinclinal relation to the surfaces I3. By reason of this particular shape of the deector 5 the water issuing from the nozzle as it strikes the deflector 5 will be spread into a relatively Wide stream or sheet and be discharged from the delector at substantially opposite sides of the rib Il in a shower or spray, the rib Il causing the sheet of water to divide into two separate showers or sprays, one at each side of the rib Il. 'Ihus a more effective spread of the spray results and consequently a greater area will be wetted by the water discharged from the deflector.

Also with a finger accommodated within the sleeve la the deflector may be rotated about the hose nozzle as an axis to any angle desired thus rendering more effective the attachment.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. A spray deflector for attachment to a hose nozzle formed of a single sheet of resilient sheet metal and comprising a body plate, a plurality of bendable projections extending from the plate and cooperating with the plate to encircle the nozzle in a manner to retain the plate on the nozzle for rotation about the nozzle as an axis, said plate at one end being also provided with a linger accommodating sleeve extending transversely thereof, and at a respectively opposite end with a segmental deector disposed at an obtuse angle to the body plate. y

2. A spray dei-lector for attachment to a hose nozzle formed of a single sheet of resilient sheet metal and comprising a body plate having means for engaging a spray nozzle in a manner to retain the plate on the nozzle for rotation about the nozzle as an axis, said plate at one end being also provided with a finger accommodating sleeve extending transversely thereof, and at a respectively opposite end with a segmental defiector disposed at an obtuse angle to the body plate, said deector portion having a rib extending along its longitudinal median and grooves at opposite sides of the rib, the portions of the deflctor between the grooves and rib presenting oppositely inclined surfaces, and the portions of the deector from the grooves to the outer side edges thereof presenting inclined surfaces disposed in inclinal relation to the first named surfaces.

FRANK BALENSIEFER.