US1861378A

US1861378A - Fly paper support

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Publication number: US1861378A
Application number: US558599A
Authority: US
Inventors: John Van S Bloodgood
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1931-08-21
Filing date: 1931-08-21
Publication date: 1932-05-31
Anticipated expiration: 1949-05-31

Description

y 31, 1932- J. VAN s. BLOODGOOD 1,861,378

FLY PAPER SUPPORT Original Filed Jan. 26, 1927 Patented May 31, 1932 UNITED STATES JOHN VAN S. BLOODGOOD, OF SETAUKET, NEW YORK FLY PAPER surron'r Refiled for abandoned case 163,737, filed January 26, 1927. This application filed August 21, 1931.

Serial No. 558,599.

This invention relates to' fly paper supports.

An object of the invention is to provide a fly paper support which is in the nature of 5 a bat or other manually manipulated device adapted to catch the flies in the air and not crush them against windows, portieres, furniture and the like, as is done by the ordinary fly swatter.

A further object is to provide a device of this character which supports the fly paper in position to catch flies and which is so constructed as to prevent Contact of the sticky fly paper with curtains, furniture, etc.

While I speak of the device as one adapted to catch flies it is of course adapted to catching other flying insects, and I use the term fly paper to indicate any sheet or analogous means supporting sticky material on which the flies or other insects will be caught.

WVith these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, which will be more fully hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings- Figure l is a perspective view, partly broken away, illustrating my improved device;

Figure 2 is a view in longitudinal section on the line 2-2 of Figure 1;

Figure 3 is a view similar to Figure 2 but showing the device in reversed position;

Figure 4 is a view in transverse section on the line 4-4 of Figure 1.

1 represents the body portion of my improved device, which is in the form of a bat somewhat shaped after the manner of a tennis racquet having a central opening 2 for lightness although it is to be understood that I do not limit myself to the particular shape of this device nor to the particular materials employed but I preferably form the same of sheet metal or other analogous material having a handle or extension 3.

The body portion 1 is provided with a plurality of upwardly projecting spurs 4. These spurs may be of general arrow head shape as shown or they may be of any other shape over which a sheet of fly paper 5 may be readily positioned so that the spurs will project through the fly paper and will be shouldered or otherwise formed adjacent their inner ends so as to prevent the fly paper from accidental removal from the support.

These spurs 4: perform two separate independent functions. One is to hold the fly paper on the support and the other is to act as stops to engage a window or article of furniture or other device and prevent the contact of the fly paper therewith. This posi tion of the device is indicated in Figure 3.

In operation, the handle 3 is grasped and the device moved through the air very much after the manner of a tennis racquet or bat, striking the flies in the air and catching them on the fly paper.

If a fly is on a desk, table, window, etc., the bat can be reversed and either placed directly over the fly or struck at the fly, and as the fly moves upwardly and outwardly it will come in contact with the fly paper and stick thereon.

The spurs are of such length as to pre clude the possibility of the fly paper being moved into contact with an object and yet do not interfere with the proper manipulation of the device in catching flies.

The spurs are preferably formed from the same material as the support 1, and as the latter may be of sheet metal these spurs may be struck from the blank and upwardly at right angles so that the article may be manufactured and sold at a low price.

It is of course to be understood that any material which functions as fly paper may be employed and that this sheet may be of the same shape as the support 1 or may take other shapes in accordance with the desire of the trade.

While I have illustrated what I believe to be a preferred embodiment of my invention it is obvious that various changes and alterations might be made in the general form of the parts described without departing from my invention and hence I do not limit myself to the precise details set forth but consider myself at liberty to make such changes and alterations as fairly fall Within the spirit and scope of the appended claim.

I claim:

A device of the character described, including a body portion having a central opening, a handle projecting from the body portion, and a plurality of integral upstanding spurs located at the Wall of the opening of the body and adapted to receive fly paper thereover, said fly paper adapted to be supported by the body and held thereon by shoulders on the spurs.

JOHN VAN S. BLOODGOOD.