US832793A - Self-clearing hose-supporter. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTED OCT. 9, 1966.

D. B. JACKSON. SELF CLEARING HOSE SUPPORTER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY26.1905.

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DANIEL B; J AOKSON, OF SEATTLE,v WASHINGTON.

SELF-CLEARING HOSE-SUPPORTE'R.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 9, 1906.

Application filed July 26,1905. Serial No. 271,361.

tion of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in hose-supporters, and particularly to that class of supporters known as self-clearing supporters.

As is commonly known, the fire or water hose which is intended for use in buildings and on ships is ordinarily coiled around a reel or fixed onto racks which are secured to the walls of the buildings or ships, &c., and when a fire breaks out and an alarm is given it very often occurs that it is very difiicult to remove the hose from these reels with sufiicient speed to be of any immediate service. Frequently on account of. the headway that a fire has made-in a building it is almost impossible to make use of such fire-hose as is coiled around a reel, and consequently it is of no service.

The object'of this invention is to remove these disadvantages and to provide a very simple device which will allow the hose to be stretched along, the wall in one line without folding'or coiling, and, furthermore, to provide a device which will allow of the immediate-use of the hose in acaseof fire.

Furthermore, this invention contemplates the automatic release of the hose from its support, which release is accomplished automatically by the expansion of the hose due to the introduction of water under-pressure.

With these and other objects in view this invention consists of the features, details of construction, and combination of parts, as will be described in connection with the accompanyin drawings and then pointed out more speci cally in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a side elevation of the supporter attached to the Wall; Fig. 2, a front elevation; Fig. 3, a perspective view, and Fig. 4 a side elevation of the lever in contact with the hose.

Referring more in detail to the drawings, 1 represents a bracket arranged to be fastened to a wall by screws or in any other manner. Projecting from said bracket at right angles thereto are aplurality of arms 2,

forming a. bifurcation between which is,

placed a lever or trigger 3, having its'greater extremity extending above the plane of the arms and its lower extremity gradually diminishing into an obtuse point 4. This lever 3 is fulcrumed at or about one-third of its length to the arms,2 by means of a pin 5. Beneath said arms 2 and on the same bracket 1 is a projection 6, extending at right angles to said bracket and being preferably made integral therewith. On the outer extremity of said projection 6 is a spring-plate 7 whose lower portion is flush with the outer wall of said projection 6 and whose upper portion extends in parallel relation to thebracket 1..

The lower extremity of said springplate is.

provided with a U-shaped slot 8. This spring-plate 7 is adjustable with. relation to the outer wall of the projection 6 by means of the screw 9, which permits the springplate to be slidup or down. plate 7 is made adjustable, for the reasonthat its upper extremity is arranged to contact,

said hose, the same will expand and: press against the longer. arm of the lever 3,,whereupon the lower point 4 is forced away from.

the spring-plate 7 toward the interior. oi'the chamber, and the said. lever describing, the arc of a circle travels around untilitcontacts with the bottom portion offthe hose, whereupon the hose drops from its support by reason of is own weight and theexpanding action caused by the high pressure of the water, as well as by the leverage fromthe lower end of the bar 3. Inuse, series of these brackets are placed along the sides of the walls of rooms or corridors about the height commonly used for hose -pipes, the brackets being placed at suitable distances apart to readily support the line of hose that is to be kept thereon. The arms 2 are preferabl inclined away from the bracket in or er to facilitate the automatic release of the hose when Water has been introduced into the same.

Having described my invention, what I 110 The said spring When,.

claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1; A supporter for hose and the like comprising a bracket provided with arms, said arms being adapted to support the hose, and means carried by said arms whereby said hose is automatically released by expansion.

2. A supporter for hose and the like comrising a bracket having arms, a lever carried y said arms and in operative relation to the hose, and means whereby the expansion of said hose will deliver the strain to the fulcrum-point of said lever and release said hose.

3. The combination with a bracket and a hose, of arms on said bracket in operative relation to said hose, a lever pivoted to said arms, and means for normally holding said lever in place.

4. A bracket consisting of a frame having at either end thereof projections, one of said projections forming a bifurcation carrying a lever, said lever having its longer arm extending above said bifurcation, and its shorter arm extending beneath said bifurcation, the other of said projections having mounted thereon a spring-plate, said plate being adjustable with respect to the lower extremity of said lever whereby said lever is normally held in place until forced out by the expansion of the hose.

5. The combination with a bracket arranged to be fastened to a wall, of a plurality of arms extending at right angles to said bracket and arranged to support the hose, and means carried by said bracket whereby the expansion of said hose will cause its release from said bracket by its own weight.

6. A supporter comprising a bracket having at one end thereof a projection provided on its exterior face with a spring-plate adjustable parallely thereof, a bifurcation provided at or near the other extremity thereof and carrying between its bifurcation a lever, the lower extremity of said lever being in contact with both sides of said spring at different times, the upper portion of said lever being extended and arranged to receive between its inner face and the face of said bracket a hose, said hose being automatically released by its expansion by said lever.

7. A device of the character described,

comprising a bracket, a lever fulcrumed upon said bracket and adapted to swing outwardly therefrom and reverse its osition, and means for securing said lever in a vertical position.

8. A device of the character described, comprising a support, a lever fulcrumed upon said support and adapted to reverse its position, and means for securing said lever in an adjusted position.

, 9. A device of the character described, comprising a bracket, lever means carried by said bracket and adapted to reverse its position, and yieldable means for securing said lever means in a vertical position.

10. A device of the character described, comprising a support, lever means carried by said support-and adapted to reverse its position, an adjustable spring carried by said support and normally engaging said lever for securing it in an adjusted position.

11. A device of the character described, comprising a bracket, a stationary arm extending from said bracket, lever means fulcrumed upon said arm and being capable of reversing its position, adjustable means carried by said bracket and engaging said lever for securing the same in an adjusted position.

12. A device of the character described, comprising a hosesupport, a lever carried by said support, and means for permitting the said lever to automatically release a hose by the expansion thereof.

13. In a device of the character described, the combination with a support, of a lever pivotally connected near one end to said support, and an adjustable, yieldable member carried by said support and normally in en gagement with said lever for securing the same in an upright position.

14. A device of the character described, comprising a horizontal arm adapted to sup port a hose, a lever carried by said horizontal arm, and a spring for permitting the said lever to automatically release a hose by the expansion thereof.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

DANIEL B. JACKSON. Witnesses G. WARD KEMP, A. H. ScHuLT.

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