US1286894A - Fly-killer. - Google Patents

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gl. P. HALL 6L C. F.. FIELDS.

l FLYMLLER. I APPLICATION FILED DEC. |515. EENEWED MAR. 23, 19.18.

1,286,894.' I Y PatentedV Dc. 3, 19l8.

A TTOR/VE YS i FFI@ JOI-IN PORTER HALL AND CLAUDE F. FIELDS, OF CALDWELL, IDAI-IO; SAID FIELDS ASSIGNOR T0 SAID HALL.

FLY-KILLER.

Specification of Letters Patent. v Pafiggnted De@ 3, 1918,

Application led December 8, 1915, Serial No. 65,739. Renewed March 23, 1918. Serial No. 224,347. y

T0 @ZZ fr0/7mm t may concern Be it known that we, JOHN PORTER I-IALL and CLAUDE F. FIELDS, citizens of the United States, and residents of Caldwell, in` the county of Canyon and State of Idaho, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fly-Killers, of which the following is a specification. A

Our invention relates to insect destroyers, and more particularly to iiy killers, or what are generally termed swatters, and has for its object to provide a simple, cheap and eiicient means for destroying commonhouse flies, which are now believed to be the predominant carriers and disseminators of disease.

Another object is to produce a fly killer that is durable and strong and one which is not easilybroken or destroyed even by violent and constant usage.

With these and other objects in view, our invention consists in certain novel features of construction, arrangement and combination of parts as will be fully described and pointed out in the claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a perspective view of our device as in use;

F ig. 2 is a partial plan view of the same;

Fig. 3 is a transverse section on line 3-*3 7of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is a side elevation;

Fig. 5 is a detail section on line 5-5 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 6 is a plan view of a modification.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, 10 represents the striking member of the device and is composed of ordinary wire screen material, such as is generally used for window screens. A blank of the screen material of suitable size of substantially rectangular shape is used and the .side edges are folded or doubled as shown at 11 in Fig. 5, forming a thickened border for the main or body portion.

A handle member 12 is provided, made of a single piece of wire of about 14 gage, said wire being bent to form a resilient coil at 13 and then extended in two parallel limbs a suitable distance, then diverging as at 14. The ends are then bent at an acute angle as at 15 and threaded through the screen fabric, first passing through the reinforced borders .l1 and having undulations 16 passing alternately above and below the plane of the fabric in opposite directions toward each other and practically `meeting at the center line of thebody portion, forming a transverse brace. l

- The portions of the fabric between the brace and the handle proper are bent over the diverging arms 14 closely embracing the same and then folded inwardly in a double fold lying against the under surface of the fabric, where they are held by staples or other suitable fastening means 18 passing through the folded portions of the body of the fabric.

The handle proper is given a slight curvature in the direction of its length, as indicated in Fig. 4, thus facilitating the easy picking up of the device from a flat surface upon which it may be lying.

The double folding of the side edges reinforces the killer or swatter so that the edge does not become easily frayed and also adds greatlyr to the strength and longevity of the device.

The ends of the handle by being threaded through themesh'es of the wire fabric forms a brace at the'place where the greatest strik- 1ng `force is usually applied and also permits the wire fabric Vto roll on the wire ends of lthe handle and tends to prevent breakage or crystallization of the wire fabric.

The coil 13 at the end of the handle member tends to keep the side bars of the handle l,apart and also to force the diverging portions 14 outwardly to maintain the fabric of the body portion in a stretched and taut condition.

The undulations in the wire prevent the slipping of the fabric from the ends of the handle wires.

In Fig. 6 we have shown a modification in which the handle portion differs from that shown in Figs. 1 and 2, in that the wire bar is bent to form a triangular shaped end portion, the base 16a of which is threaded through the screen fabric and the sides 14a having the fabric folded thereon and secured to the body portion by staples or rivets 18a passed through a card or label 19 with advertising or printed matter thereon, as plainly shown in Fig. 6.

From the apeX of the triangular portion the wires are closely twisted together, forming a shank or tang 12a, which is firmly secured in a wooden handle 20, The body portion of this form of swatter isthe same as the first described form, that is, the side edges are folded over to reinforce the same.

It will be observed that in both forms the predominant features are present. That is, a main body portion of generally rectangular configuration, a triangular portion connecting the rectangular portion with the handle member, and a transverse brace member threaded through the wire fabric and constituting the base of the triangular portion, and that the handle portion possesses resiliency and elasticity.

Ne claim:

l. A fly killer consisting of a striking member of wire fabric comprising a rectangular portion, a handle member consisting ofa wire bent to form a triangular frame the base of which is threaded through the wire fabric of the rectangular portion of the striking member from edge to edge, the side edges of the fabric folded over the bars forming the oblique sides of the triangle, means for rigidly securing the folded over edges to the body ofthe fabric within the triangle, and a handle proper projecting from the apeX of the triangle.

2. A fly killer consisting of a striking member of wire fabric and a handle portion, said handle portion composed of wire bars and forming a triangular frame, the base bar of the same having undulations and threaded through the meshes of the wire fabric from edge to edge. y

3. A fly killer consisting of a striking sheet of wire cloth and a Wire handle attached to said sheet, the attaching end of said handle having a triangular formation and the base bar of said triangular end being threaded through said sheet between the ends thereof, and the handle end corners of said sheet being extended about the diverging bars of said triangular end and fastened, whereby said sheet will be secured to said handle throughout the triangular outline of said handle end.

t. In a fly killer, a single sheet of wire cloth forming a striking member, a handle, said handle having a bar threaded through said sheet transversely of its length and between its ends and nearer to the handle end of said sheet than the free or striking end thereof, and that portion of the sheet projecting toward the handle from said bar being secured to the handle.

5. A fly killer consisting of a striking member of wire fabric and a handle portion, said handle portion consisting of wire bars in the form of a substantially triangular frame, and the base bar of Vsaid frame being threaded through the fabric between the ends thereof, and meansfor securing that end of the fabric nearest the handle portion beyond said bar to said handle portion.

6. A fly killer consisting of a striking portion of wire fabric and a handle portion, said handle portion having a part thereof threaded through said fabric between the ends of the latter, and means for securing that end of the fabric nearest the handle portion to the latter at points beyond that part of the handle threaded through said striking portion.

JOHN PORTER HALL.

CLAUDE F. FIELDS. Witnesses:

MAUDE COX, F. D. MUMroRD.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

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