Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1891 — PORTABLE PARLOR FOUNTAIN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PORTABLE PARLOR FOUNTAIN

An Ingenious anil Simple Contrivance Which Ik Very Attractive. The annexed engraving, taken from a Vienna paper, illustrates a fountain consisting principally of two equalsized* basins, each containing a spraying nozzle and an outlet pipe, the spraying nozzles being connected by two rubber pipes with the outlet pipes, as plainly shown in the sectional view. The basins are supported on suitable holders connected with each other by parallel levers fulcrnmed on the flower stand. A weight is adapted to be hung

on the lower end of the holder containing the empty basin to counterbalance and to hold the full basin in an uppermost position. The water flows from the filled upper basin through the outlet pipe to the spraying nozzle of the lower basin, and is projected quite a distance up into the air, to fall back and gradually fill the lower basin. When this is accomplished, the upper basin has run empty and the counterbalancing weight is now hung on the holder of the empty upper basin so as to chapge the position of the levers, and consequently the basins; that is, the filled basin assumes an uppermost position, while the empty one swings downward. The water now flows from the upper basin to the spraying nozzle of the lower empty basin, and is sprayed to accumulate in this basin. It takes about one hour’s time to empty a basin containing about onehalf gallon of water, the opening of the spraying nozzle being one-half millimeter in size. In case the water gets dirty the basins can be readily removed from their holders and emptied, and again filled with fresh water.