US274321A - Steam fire-engine - Google Patents

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H. HA'VE NSJ. STEAM FIRE ENGINE.

Patented Mar. 20, 1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT O FICE.

WILLIAM H. HAVENS, or PATERSON, NEW JERSEY.

STEAM FIRE-ENGINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 274,321, dated March 20, 1883.

Application filed December 16, 1882. N0 model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, VVILLIAM H. HAVENS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Paterson, Passaic county, New Jersey, have i nvented certain new and useful Improvements in Steam Fire-Engines, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to steam fire-engines especially adapted to railroad use; and its object is to provide a steam fire-engine attachment for locomotives, whereby fires in the mail or postal cars, baggage-cars, and passengercoaches, as well as such fires occurring in or about the depots, stations, and those along the line ot'the road, may be extinguished; and to that end the novelty consists in the combination, with alocomotive, its tender, and tank, of a jet-pump or siphon located within the tank and in the rear portion thereof, and provided with suitable steam-connections and hose, as will be hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In theaccompanyingdrawings similarletters of reference indicate like parts of the invention. 1

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the rear portion of a locomotive with its tender, showing my invention applied thereto; and Fig. 2 is a plan View of the same.

A is the boiler, B the cab, and G the tender.

D is the water-tank, provided with the handhole plate E.

a is the jet-pump or siphon, located within the tank, in the rear portion thereof; and e is I the steam-supply pipe, which connects the pump a with the boiler A. This pipe 6 is provided with a valve, g, near the boiler and with- The pipe then extends down the side of the cab; and between the engine and tender is connected a flexible pipe, f, by unions h h, It then extends along the sideof the tender, then enters the tank and connects with the steam-inlet of the pump a.

c is a goose neck, connecting the outlet of the pump with theflexible discharge pipe or hose d. This hose, when not in use, is coiled up out-he rear end of the tender, so as to be readily and instantly accessible to the trainhands or passengers.

To put the device in operation, the hose d is possibility of derangement from foreign bodies,

as would be the case if it were in an exposed position, and at the same time the whole arrangement, with its hose, is in the immediate reach of the traimhands and passengers. It will thus be seen that should a fire occur on the train, even while in motion, any person on, the train may reach the hose on the tender and run it down through the center of thecars to the fire and extinguish it while the cars are moving. Furthermore, the ready availability of the arrangement anywhere about the line of the track will be fully understood and ap-- preciated from the above.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and useful, and. desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States,

The combination, with a locomotive-boiler, its tender and tank, of a jet-pump, siphon, or water-elevator, located within said tank, in the rear portion thereof, and provided "with suitable steam-connections and hose within easy reach of the train-hands from the platform of the tender, whereby the water in the tank may be forcibly discharged and utilized to extinguish fires on the train or in close proximity thereto, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature,

in presence of two witnesses, this 15th day of December, 1882.

WILLIAM H. HAVENS. Witnesses:

JAMES C. CHRISTIE, J osHUAMAsoN.

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