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No. 6l9,|89. Patented Feb. 7, I899. G. J. KITZING. COMBINED SPRINKLER AND NOZZLE.

(Application filed Oct. 15, 1897.)

(No Model.)

.Attorn ej J.

jnvenior; Geoye Jflitzz'w Witnesses:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE J. KITZING, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

COMBINED SPRINKLER AND NOZZLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 619,189, dated February 7, 1899.

Application filed October 15, 1897. Serial No. 655,248. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE J. Krrzme, a

'dianapolis, in the county of Marion and State 5 of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Sprinkler and Nozzle; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to the class of devices that are designed to be used in connection with garden or yard hose for the purpose of sprinkling water upon lawns or buildings; and it consists in a certain novel device attached to a nozzle whereby the stream is sprayed horizontally and in a novel manner and by which the sprinkler-may be converted at will into a nozzle for discharging a solid stream of water; and it further consists in a stand therefor of novel construction and in the parts and combination thereof forming the complete sprinkler, as will be more fully described hereinafter and claimed.

Lawn-sprinklers as heretofore constructed have serious defects in that they elevate the water to such an extent that it is caught by the winds and blown away from the parts intended to be sprinkled and often onto passing pedestrians or into house windows or doors, rendering them highly objectionable; and it is my object to eliminate these evils and provide means whereby water may be sprinkled at any desired point more positively and the device transferred readily from one'point to another without the necessity of going a distance to shut 0d the water-supply in order to move it without becoming wet by the spray. A further object is to provide such a sprinkler as may be quickly changed without using tools into a plain nozzle, by which water may be thrown in a solid stream into vases or when washing windows or porches, &c.

These objects are attained in my invention, which is furthermore simple in design, cheaply constructed, and efficient and durable in use.

Referring to the drawings, Figure I repreof the nozzle when using the latter for delivering a solid stream; Fig. 6, a central vertical sectional view, and Fig. 7 a front view, of a modified form of stand. 7

In the drawings, A designates the nozzle, B the sprinkler, and O andD stands therefor.

In constructing my devices I make a cylindrical nozzle, preferably of cast-brass, having in its base screwthreads 'm, adapted to engage the male'half of a hose-coupling, and a central duct restricted at its upper end and terminating in the orifice h of suitable size. Extendinglfrom one side is an arm a, preferably integral and approximately at a right angle to the line of the duct, the latter being considered as vertical, and near the end of the arm is a vertical hole having screw-threads therein, although the threads may be omitted if two thumb-nuts are used on the standard I), which is preferably a cylindrical rod provided with screw-threads for a short distance from it lower end, which is inserted in the hole, and a thumb-nut d is screwed onto it either above or below the arm to lock the standard in any position in which it may be set. The upper end of the standard bis fiattened and turned over to form a horizontal arm vi, to which a circular metallic disk-shaped sprinkler Bis secured by a rivet e or screwbolt. The'sprinkler has a greater diameter than the orifice and has a fiat or plane surface presented toward the orifice of the nozzle at a right angle to its duct and centrally at a suitable distance above the orifice.

The base 0 is designed to be made cheaply when large sizes are desired and which may be readily repaired by ordinary blacksmiths in rural districts should it be accidentally broken, and it consists in a frame E and two side pieces F F, preferably forgings, the latter in the shape of double-ended runners, each composed of a fiat bar of wrought-iron bent up near the ends to form the rounded corners u and at the ends turned over to form horizontal lips P, through which a bolt-hole is drilled orpunched. spider form, having four arms or legs inclined downward and having horizontal ends N, in which is a bolt-hole to receive a screwbolt Q, by which the frame and runners are connected detachably. The center of the frame has a vertical hole through a boss G I and provided with pipe-threads. The pipe H of suitable length has pipe-threads at its lower end and is attached to the end G of the boss and its upper end has hose-threads and receives the nozzle. A pipe-nipple J is screwed into the end I of the boss, and at its lower end is an elbow K, to which is screwed a nipple L, having a hose-nut M, to which a garden-hose maybe connected. The stand D is adapted for ordinary sizes for lawns and is preferably'made of malleable iron in a single piece, having the central boss S provided with pipe-threads n, to which the pipe H may be attached, and a spreading, frame 1) terminating in runners R, having rounded ends W. An integral elbow T has a socket U provided with pipe-threads, to which is screwed the nip ple L, having the coupling-nut.

Minor changes in the details of construction may be made, as it is not essential that the sprinkler B shall be mounted exactly as shown; but any other arrangement is permisthe orifice of the nozzle and preferably arranged so that it may be swung away to clear the stream from the nozzle. It is of great advantage to use the stand having runners provided with rounded ends, particularly at the front, so that when it is desired to change the position of the sprinkler it is only necessary and being blown about by winds. When it is desired to use the plain nozzle, it may be detached' from the pipe H and connected to a hose, and the sprinkler B is swung to one side by first loosening the thumb-nut and then tightening it to secure the standardin its altered position.

I am aware that both concave and convex disks have been applied to nozzles to cause a spray and that neither possesses the advantages nor produces the desired results, as does my invention, as I have found that especially in sprinkling large areas, as parks, the fiat surfaceexposed to the stream produces the best result.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In alawn-sprinkler, the combination of the stand, the nozzle having the projecting The frame is of the The advantage in arm provided with the threaded hole at the outer end thereof,the standard secured in said threaded hole, whereby the length of the standard is graduated, the thumb-nut to bind said standard, the horizontal arm on said standard, and the disk rigidly secured to said horizontal arm, said disk having a fiat or plane surface presented toward the orifice of said nozzle and adapted to cause water discharged therefrom to be spread out and sprayed horizontally in all directions radially from the center, substantially as and for the purposes shown and described.

2. In a combined lawn-sprinkler and noz- ,zle, the combination of the nozzle having a base provided with screw-threads and havingan unobstructed tapering cylindrical bore jrestricted at the discharging-orifice thereof, the projecting horizontally-disposed arm atfitached rigidly to said nozzle and having the standard secured adj ustably at the center end thereof and provided with the horizontal arm, and the disk rigidly secured to the horizontal arm of the standard and having-a flat Y or plane surface presented toward the orifice 'of said nozzle and adapted to cause water discharged therefrom to be spread out and sprayed in all directions radially and horizontally to said bore, substantially as and for Q the purposes set forth. sl-ble so that it is situated adj ustably above 2 3. In a combined lawn-sprinkler and nozjzle,the combination of the nozzle having a base .j provided with screw-threads and having an .w unobstructed tapering cylindrical bore restricted atthe discharging-orifice, the proj ect- 1 in g horizontal arm attached to said nozzle and provided with the threadedhole at the free end thereof, the standard having the horizontal arm and provided at its lower end with screwing thumb-nut on said threaded lower end,

i and the disk secured rigidly to the horizontal arm of said standard, substantially as shown and described, for the purposes set forth.

4. In a combined lawn-sprinkler and-nozzle, the combination of the stand, the nozzle having the cylindrical bore restricted at the discharge-orifice thereof and detachably mounted upon the stand, the arm extending laterally from said nozzle and having the screw-threaded hole at the extremity thereof, the standard having the'tlattened horizontal arm and provided at its lower end with screw threads engaging said screw-threaded hole, the thumb-nut on said lower end and bearing against said lateral arm whereby said stand ard is secured adj ustably, and the disk rigidly secured to said flattened horizontal arm, substantially as shown and described.

5. In a combined lawn-sprinkler and nozzle, the combination of the stand, the detachable nozzle mounted vertically upon the stand and provided with the laterally-projecting arm having the screw-threaded hole at the outer end thereof, the standard having the flattened horizontal arm and provided with the screw-threaded lower end engaging said threads engaging said threaded'hole, the lockling at the outer end thereof, the pipe-nipple 15 connected to the upper one of said bosses, the nozzle connected to said last-mentioned nipple and provided with the lateral arm, the standard adjustable on the arm, and the flat disk B rigid on said standard, substantially 2b as and for the purposes shown and described. In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE J. KITZING'.

Witnesses:

WM. H. PAYNE, E. T. SILVIUS.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 619,189, granted February 7, 1899, upon the application of George J. Kitzing, of Indianapolis, Indiana, for an improvement in A Combined Sprinkler and Nozzle, an error appears in the printed specification requiring correction, as follows; In line 88, page 2, the Word center should read outer; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Ofliee.

Signed, eountersigned, and sealed this 7th day of March, A. D., 1899.

- [SEAL] WEBSTER DAVIS,

Assistant Secretary of the Interior.

Gountersigned O. H. DUELL,

Commissioner of Patents.

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