Featured Another one of my toys, White Showers Inc. Lawn Sprinkler.

Nobody bid on this, I thought that it was a neat sprinkler, so I bought it. I plan on refinishing it. It was made by the White Showers Inc., Detroit Mich. Patent dated March 25 1930.

It's a piston actuated hydraulic oscillating lawn sprinkler. A very clever design, see the patents below.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US1751641?oq=white+showers+sprinkler+detroit
https://patents.google.com/patent/US1751640?oq=white+showers+sprinkler+detroit

...and here is a video of one in operation, sprinkling a lawn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sqT7tM19Xg




Andre

 

Love to see this in action, always liked the tractor sprinklers but this one takes the cake!

<edit> just watched the vid - cool!

 

Hampton, I think it will look like a WEAPON in your front yard!

 

I see what you mean, and it will look nice and shiny when I'm done, making it look even more formidable.

 

At first, I thought it rolled around like a roomba! Very cool and soothing

 

Uhh...would that be DETROIT MICH? Or just some other miscellaneous Detroit? Love it. Looks like small artillery but brings back memories of hot summer days & running though sprinklers with other neighborhood kids in our baggy cotton swim wear.

 

OOPS. Thanks for the correction.

 

Oh boy, displaying that on your porch you may just get a visit from the police - LOL! "Honest officer, it's just a sprinkler!"

 

It does look menacing.

 

For sure!

Back in the ancient 1970's I found one of these Victorian vacuums in a garbage can in Chelsea, walking home from a rock concert ...easiest way to carry it was "shouldered" so all was good till Special Branch spotted me marching along merrily ...next thing I heard was "Hands up" and "Put down the weapon" ...rest of the story is too embarrassing for the officers concerned, but to teach me a lesson, they confiscated my "find"

 

I'll bet they still use it at the station house !!!

 

Love this sprinkler, and a great story from Blooey!

Excellent twofer.