US Patent: 5,472X
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| Construction of Hose, for Applying and Distributing to Sails or Sheets of Cloth, for the Protection of Buildings From Fire, Called the Fire Screen
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Apr. 29, 1829 |
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Joel Havens
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| Most of the patents prior to 1836 were lost in the Dec. 1836 fire. Only about 2,000 of the almost 10,000 documents were recovered. Little is known about this patent. There are no patent drawings available. This patent is in the database for reference only.
“A common leather hose is to be perforated with holes, a few inches apart; the extreme end of this hose is to be closed, and a sail, or sheet, is to be attached to it for the purpose of retaining the water which passes through the holes. The hose may be drawn up to the eaves of a building, and the sheet allowed to hang at its side, or it may be drawn up to the ridge, and the sheet cover the roof; water is then to be supplied from a fire engine to fill the hose.
We are apprehensive that it will rarely happen that such an apparatus can be fixed and supplied with water, so as to answer the purpose intended. It is easy to try a public experiment with such a contrivance, where all is concerted beforehand, but the anxiety, hurry, and confusion, at a serious fire, will rarely allow of that orderly and systematic procedure which such an apparatus requires. Where it could be applied, it would certainly be very useful; we are apprehensive, however, that but few rights will be purchased, and, therefore, as a patented invention, it will probably disappoint the patentee.”
Journal of the Franklin Institute Vol. 5, Aug. 1829 pgs. 117-118
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