US398735A - Conductor for stand-pipes - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

J. B. KENISON.

CONDUCTOR FOR, STAND PIPES.

No. 398,735. Patented Feb. 26, 1889.

Nrrn STATES PATENT OFFICE,

JOHN l3. KENISON, Oh LYNN, .llASSACIH'SET'IS.

CONDUCTOR FOR STAN D-PIPES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 398,735, dated February 26, 1889.

Application filed .nlglist 16, 1888. Serial No. 232,898. (No modela 1'0 all u'lwnt it may concern Be it known that I, JOHX ll. KENIsON, of Lynn, county of Essex, State of Massachusetts, have invented an II'nprQveincnt in (onductors for btai'id-lipes, of which the i'ollowing descriptioi'nin connection with the accompanying drawing, is a specification, like letters on the drawing representin like parts.

This invention has for its object to construct a detachable conductor or convcyer for standpipes, which are located at convenient places on the sides of the streets, and employed to deliver water from the main pipe to supply wat-er-carts.

In accordance with this invention the conductor or conveyer is carried on the cart, and when it is desired to use the same it is connected with the dischargenozzle or end of the stand-pipe.

The conductor or coi'iveyer consists of two tapering pipes or cylinders joined together at their larger ends. A suitable strainer is placed within the conductor or conveyor, and also a distrilnltcr to break the force of the water. At the upper end of the conductor or conveyor suitable engaging devices are provided, which will be employed to attach the conductor or conveyer to the stand-pipe.

The invention is further described in the specification, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

The drawing shows in side elevation the conductor or conveyor forming the essence of this invention, it being broken out in places to show the parts within it; also the standpipe and a portion of the water-receiving tank which is placed on the cart.

The watentank A is of any suitable size,

shape, and construction, it having a waterreceiving orifice, a, at the top. The tank A will be placed, as usual, on thecart, (not shown,)

and from it suitable pipes will lead, which are provided with sprinklers, also not shown.

B represents an ordinary stand-pipe, commonly located at convenient places at the sides of the street, and as now used have attached I muddy near a standpipc. In lieu of the flexible hose, I provide a conductor or conveyor, which consists of two pipes, h B, each tapered from end to end and. joined at their larger ends. These pipes may be made of alva-nizcd iron or other suitable material. A yoke, c, is attached to the screw-threaded collar 0, (see dotted lines) by which the parts i are joined together, said voke having at its i lower end a screw-threaded flange, (see dotted lines,) upon which is turned a collar or cap, 0 (ontained within the yoke and supported by it is a tapering cylindrical strainer, made a quite long, and the collar 0 contains a foramii nous or gauze plate which, it will be understood, forms the bottom of the strainer.

A cross-bar, d, is fixed to the pipe 7) above the strainer, it supporting a conical distributing-plate, d, which breaks the force of the water previous to entering the strainer.

The stand-pipe B, atits discharge nozzle or end, has a flange or ring fixed upon it, and a yoke or collar, e, embraces the upper end of the pipe I), from which project laterally ears 6, to which are pivoted levers e the upper ends of which levers are provided with curved engaging-flanges 6 having inclined or tapering vertical extensions 6, while the lower end of the levers are acted upon by sprin e, normally tending to press the curved flanges 6 toward each other.

The spring-controlled levers 6 having the curved flanges or engaging ends, constitute the. engaging devices, and in operation, when the conductor or conveyor is lifted, the end of the discharge-nozzle strikes the inclined portions e", thereby spreading the levers, and thereafter the flange 2 acts in a like manner upon the levers, thereby permitting the engaging portions c thereof to rest upon the upper surface of the flange 2, holding the coni vices engage the discharge end or nozzle there of, after which the valve f is opened.

By the device herein described a tank may be filled and the device disconnected without spilling or permitting the Water to drain in the street; and, furthermore, by providing the conductor with a strainer obviates the necessity of removing collections from the sprinklers and the pipes leading from the tank, which in practice consumes considerable time.

I clan l. The conductor or conveyer herein described, consisting of the tapering pipes b I), joined at their larger ends by the collar 0, the tubular strainer 12, distrilmter-plate d, independent of and above said strainer, the yoke 0, within one of the said pipes and attached to said collar to support said strainer at its ends, and the collar 0 attached to the lower end of said yoke and containing a foraminous plate to form the bottom of the strainer, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The conductor or conveyer herein described, consisting of the tapering pipes 11 Z), joined at their larger en (is, the tubular strainer 0 supported at either end by a yoke, 12, within pipe 0, and the plate (1', above said strainer, combined with the engaging device comprising the ears 6, rigidly attached to the end of said pipe, spring-controlled levers e pivoted thereto, and the projections 6 by which to partly inclose and engage the discharge end or nozzle of a stand-pipe, as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses;

G. W. GREGORY, T, L. EMERY.

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