Pennington v. King

The plaintiffs sue on patent No. 203,069, issued to Pennington and Beggs, April 30, 1878, upon an application filed October 27, 1877, for an improvement in [lawn] sprinklers. In this contrivance, water from a head is to pass through the ordinary socket tubes into a rose of circular shape, with a shoulder, and other bearings and fittings, to enable it to revolve freely at a low or a high pressure of the water. The part with which we are chiefly concerned is the rose, which is thus described:

“ The rose, 0, is provided with a number of discharge holes, d, at the outer circumference, which holes…