DEFLECTOR NOZZLES. 
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Mr. J. T. Hayden, of Cambridge. Mass., secured in 1878 (So. 2052G7) 
the pattern in Plate XXI, Fig. 3. It is a hose-pipe which discharges 
from the plug hole, c. Beyond the plug. B, is a shortened barrel, so ex- 
panded that the plug, B, as shown in section, can have its passage, c, set 
to discharge against the side of the short barrel, which then serves as a 
deflector, and spray is thrown from a concave, semicylindrical portion 
of its surface. 
Another simple device for this purpose is that in a patent issued in 
1S81 (No. 238205) to Mr. J. W. Kill am, of Lakeweod, N. J., and pre- 
sented in Plate XXI, Fig. 4. The scoop-shaped plate, D, is provided 
with a socket, B, which can be forced over the jet-pipe, A, when a spray 
is desired, or may be removed to use the solid jet. 
Recently the nozzle presented in Plate XIX, Figs. 6 and 7, manufact- 
ured by Mr. P. C. Lewis, of Catskill, X. Y., along with his combination 
force-pump, described further on, has come to our notice. The adjust- 
ment of the small deflecting plate, is admirable. The plate extends 
backward beneath the spout as a narrow slide-bar,;;', through the loops, 
M w, of the rings, r r, and terminates in a bent eye. By pulling this 
back with the finger the deflecting part of the plate, p, is drawn under 
the end of the spout, to which it clings firmly by springing up tightly 
against it. Thus the unimpeded solid jet is used, and the same may be 
instantly converted into a Spray by pushing the plate forward. This 
deflector is very small, neat, and well made of brass. The front edge 
is rounded, but in the same plane with the rest of the plate, which is 
very narrow, with its sides nearly parallel. The spray is of a form suited 
better for sprinkling trees, windows, ami houses, but for broadcast work 
on the ground or over low vegetation a square and broader spray with- 
out ragged borders and with the margins and median parts equally 
dense would be preferable. 
One of the deflectors, sent by Mr. J. Schier, of Ellinger, Tex., is 
represented in Plate XIX, Fig. 5. . The median prominence of the plate 
spreads the water more towards the margins and thins its center. 
Thereby is sought a spray of greater width, with its middle made as 
thin as its sides. The back of the tin plate is stiffened by an additional 
layer of tin and a thick mass of solder, while its neck has a short brass 
screw attachment, to the spout. 
Another of a similar pattern, but entirely of brass, lias the plate de- 
tachable so the solid jet may be used when desired as in Fig. 4. The 
deflector,^, is soldered to a ring, u. which may be unscrewed from the 
spout, a. 
Mr. J. A. Barrett has secured a patent in (Xo. 239305) 1881 which 
seems to cover the foregoing idea, or the principle of dividing the jet 
into a spray by an angular deflector shown, at a, in Plate XXI, Fig. 5, 
where its edge is represented as projecting into the jet, s, from the hose- 
pipe, e, upon which the shank, b and c, of the deflector is clamped by the 
spring, d. It is asserted that " no backward flow or general spattering of 
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