NEW HOSE NOZZLE

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 85, 4 January 1933, Page 3

NEW HOSE NOZZLE

Use for Fire Brigade OF A VARIABLE TYPE Last week the .Superintendent of the Wellington Fire Brigade, Mr. C. A. Woolley, gave a demonstration of the newest type of variable nozzle. Hitherto when there was a fire and a fireman entered the building with a lead of hose and hydrant he was dependent on the man at the hydrant as to when the water should be turned on or off. As it might be some time before a message from the heart of a smoke-filled building travelled to the hydrantman in the street it is conceivable that on occasion more damage than was necessary might be occasioned through water. «

With the variable nozzle, however, a fireman entering a burning building is in charge of his water supply. With a turn of the new nozzle he is able to get a full force supply, or, if the fire 18 of an insignificant character, he can turn his hydrant down to a small spurt. He is able to do this, with the aid of the new variable nozzle attachment to the ordinary nozzle. This is a cylindrical attachment In solid brass, which fits on the ordinary hose nozzle. Inside the cylinder is fitted a solid' brass pointed pin, which works on a screw gear. Turned in one direction the pin recedes, opening up the aperture for the water from' the hose; screwed in the reverse direction it closes it up gradually or altogether, according to what pressure is required for the occasion.

“Such a nozzle,” said the superintendent, “is not only very useful for the fireman who is handling it, but it may mean cutting down the losses by water considerably during the year. The nozzle is not. intended for outside work, but is devised for inside and is one that is really worth while.”