USRE7845E - Improvement in street-sprinklers - Google Patents

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J. A. vBANCROF'I. Assignor to L F. Bancroft a. A. B. Yetter.

STREET-SPRINKLERS.

No. 7,845. Reissued Aug. 14, 1877.

UNITED STATE PAT NT OFFICE.

JOHN A. BANOBOFT, 0F WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, SSIGNCE To LOREY F. BA-ECRQFT, or SAME PLACE, Am) ANDREW B; YETTEB, OF NEW IYORKOITY.

IMPROVEMENT m srassr-srnmxrsns.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 101,700, dated April 12, 1870 Reissue remains, date l August 14, 1877; application filed July 11, 1877.

To all 'whom it may concern which are inserted the conducting-pipes B, 0, Be it known that 1, Joan A. BANCEQET, and D, which supply water from the tank to of Worcester, Massachusetts, have invented a the several compartments F, G, and H of the certain Improvement in Street'Sprinklers, of sprinkler E. The sprinkler is diVided into which the following is a specification: three separate compartments by means of the My improvement relates to the sprinklers partitions d d. Each of the chambers in theof street-watering carts; and my invention sprinkler is provided with'an opening in the consists in dividing such Sprinklers into two bottom, which is stopped by a plug or cap, b; or more separate compartments, and connectand similar openings, also stopped by plugs h, ing'each compartment with the water-tank by are provided at the outer ends of the sprinkler an independent supply pipe and valve, whereby E. These openings are provided for the purwater may be Supplied independently to either pose of facilitating the cleansing of the sprinkone or more of the compartments into which ler from any sediment'or obstruction that may the sprinkler is divided, and thus the apparw accumulate therein. tus may be made to sprinkle paths of variable When cleansing is necessary, the plugs are widths. removed, and a full hcad'ofwater let on from I In sprinkl ng streets it Sometimes happens the tank, by the force of which the-sediment that after the sprinkling-cart has made sevin the sprinkler is washed out of the openings and trips back and forth a narrow strip rein the bottoms or ends of the several eoinpart mains to be sprinkled, and it is then desirable ments. I f x to diminish the width of the sprinkling-dis- The openings a of the pipes 13', C, and D are charge, both for the sake of economizing waeach provided with a valve for enabling the ter and in order to avoid overlapping that driver to shut off water from either one or more of the sprinkling-cornpartments.

: rt of the street already sprinkled, which I It will thus be seen that thedriver of ,the'

would otherwise receive an excess of water. I

It is also desirable to stop the flow of water watering-cart is'enabled to sprinkle paths of when driving near the curb-stones, or through different widthsby admitting water from thenarrow streets, to avoid wetting carriages or tank into either one or more of the compare the clothing of persons on the sidewalk. ments into whichthe sprinkler is divided,

I The latter result has been accomplished by the case may be. r theuse of sectional shields or side guards. I claim as my invent-i'on- I Bide guards,ho'wever,notonly do noteconomize a 1. In a street-watering cart provided witha water, but the hissing sound made by the water water-tank, a sprinkler divided into I two or striking against them sometimes frightens more separate compartments each having an restive horses. 1 I independent connection with the tank by My invention not only affords facilities for means of a pipe provided with a suitable valve governing the width 9f the discharge, So as to for the purpose of enabling the driver of the avoid sprinkling a person on the sidewalk, but

. cart to Sprinkle paths of variable widths, subit enables the driver of the sprinkling-cart to stantially as described. water a narrow width of street without waste of water upon that part of thestreet which has already been sprinkled. I

The accompanying drawing illustrates my invention as embodied in a'sprinkler divided 2 The sprinkler E,.provided with thetransverse partitions d and the Stop plugs or caps b, as and for'the purpose set forth. I

JOBS A. .BAnonoirT.

Witnesses into three separate compartments. The drawing represents a section of a water- BEE-BY L. PARKER, Lornsn Paon'rr.

tank, A, having three openings, at a a, into

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