US735480A - Fire-extinguisher. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTED AUG. 4, 1903.

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ATTORNEYS No. 735,480. I PATENTED AUG. 4, 1903. r 0. J. EIGHHORN.

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APPLICATION FILED mm. 14, 1903.

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PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES J. EICHHORN, OF JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE TEA TRAY COMPANY, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

FlREa-EXTlNGUlSHER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 735,480, dated August 4, 1903.

Application filed March 14,1903 Serial No. 147,851- (No model.) i

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES J. EICHHOBN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented and produced a new and original Improvement in Fire-Extinguishers and I do hereby declare the followingto 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 letters of reference marked thereon which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates more particularly to certain improvements in that part of a fireextinguisher known as the bottle-holder or cage, in which is seated the package, preferably a glass bottle, containing the acid or other chemical to be combined with another in the body of the device to produce the effervescence and pressure of gas by which the water contained in the extinguisher is forced out to extinguish the fire.

The objects of the invention are to enable the receptacle or cage and the bottle contained therein to be more conveniently re moved from the extinguisher for the purpose of changing, cleaning, renewing, .or other purposes, to enable the bottle to be more quickly removed from the cage, to simplify the construction and reduce the cost thereof, to enable the top or cap of the extinguisher to be removed without at the same time removing the bottle and its contents, and to secure other advantages and results, some of which may be referred to hereinafter in connection with the description of the working thereof; and Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the improved cage or bottle-receptacle, showing the same detached from the body of the extinguisher. i

Insaid drawings, (1 indicates the body of the extinguisher, which may be of any ordinary construction, said body having at the top thereof an annular mouthpiece 1), adapted to furnish interiorly a seat for the cage 0 and exteriorly bearings against which the upper portion of the sheet-metal body is fastened by means of solder orany other suitable means, the said annular mouthpiece I) being provided with exterior screw-threads to receive the cover (Z.

The cage 0 is suspended from the interior seat e of the mouthpiece and is provided at its top with two semicircular pieces f f, separable from one another and which in turn each supports two depending limbs g g, which project vertically downward at the sides of the bottle or receptacle h to a bottom ring or plate 1', to which the said downwardly-projecting limbs g g are riveted or otherwise fastened, the said bottom plate 1' serving as a seat or flooring upon which-the bottle or package rests. Near the top of the said limbs the same are bent more or less to engage the upper shoulders of the bottle, and thus prevent the bottle from falling out from the cage by accident or inadvertence.

The semicircular pieces ff at the top of the cage permit the spreading of the upper parts of one pair of limbs from those of the other pair,so as to permit the easy withdrawal or removal of the bottle from the cage for purposes of cleaning, changing, renewing, &c. The limbs g g are preferably of resilient metal, so that after they are once spread to permit the removal of the bottle, and thenreleased there guisher is turned to its normal position the said guides will cause the stopper m to fall tion and closing the bottle, the remainder of the contents being reserved for further use.

The extinguisher is provided with any ordinary means for directing the spray or water therefrom to the fire tobe extinguished and for carrying theextinguisher While using it, the latter means not being shown.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new is i 1. The combination with the body portion of the extinguisher and its cover or cap, of a cage comprising a bottom plate, limbs extending up therefrom and separable pieces fastened to the top of said limbs and extending laterally therefrom and adapted to lie on the top of the said body portion said cage being suspendedin the top of said body and separable therefrom and from its cap, and adapted to receive a bottle and hold it within the said extinguisher, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination with the body portion of an extinguisher and its cap, of a cage having atop comprising two separable pieces seated on and connecting each a pair of limbs and adapted to be spread or opened apart to permit the insertion of a bottle, said cage being adapted to be seated at the mouth of the extinguisher, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination with the extinguisher having a seat in the mouth thereof, of a removable cage, comprising a bottom plate, limbs adapted to extend from said bottom plate to the top of said cage and semicircular pieces fastened at the top of said limbs and adapted to fit within the mouth of the extinguisher and when released from said extinguisher adapted to spread apart to permit the removal of the bottle therefrom, substantially as set forth.

4. The combination with the body and cap or cover of the extinguisher, of a cage comprising a bottom plate or seat for the bottle, limbs extending up from said bottom plate, and separable rings fastened at the top of said limbs and having a vertical guide on which the stopper may slide to and from the mouth of the bottle, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 28th day of February, 1903.

CHARLES J. EIOHHORN.

Witnesses:

CHARLES H. PELL, O. B. PITNEY.

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