A NEW COUPLING.
THE new coupling manufactured by W. J. Clark and company, Salem, O., is a very clever device and if it operates in actual service in the manner claimed for it, a revolution in hose connecting may be looked for. In a very neat little book describing this new appliance, The manufacturers say: “The question of hose couplings has received a large share of attention and consequent advancement. Besides the improved screw coupling now in service a number of
quicker working ones has been introduced, and pre eminent among them all is the patent coupling recently invented by Joseph S. Blackburn. It is a time saving appliance that merits the approval of firemen wherever it has been tried, and which, owing to the remarkably short time required to operate it, is significantly called the ‘Quick as Wink’ Hose Coupling. In offering this n£w appliance for public favor we are mindful of the prejudice that may exist in favor of the long used and apparently satisfactory screw coupling, and we therefore solicit the privilege of sending our representative to make a water pressure exhibit of the ‘ Quick as Wink ’ Coupling to demonstrate its merits. We will furnish these couplings for trial by hose companies or fire committees for any reasonable length of time and allow them to be subjected to the severest possible tests at our own risk and expense, with the understanding, however, that if the trial is satisfactory, our Coupling will be adopted and a purchase made.”
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