US287704A

US287704A - Insect-destroyer

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Publication number: US287704A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1883-10-30
Anticipated expiration: 1900-10-30

Description

(No Model.) I A. NBWKIRK. INSECT DESTROYBR.

' No. 287,704. Patented 0gt. 3.0,1883..

Z J z INVENTOR UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ABRAM NEWKIRK, 0F CLEVELAND, OHIO.

,INSECT-DESTROYER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 287,704, dated October 30, 1883.

Application filed July 27, 1883.

Cleveland, in the county of Ouyahoga and State I of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Insect-Destroyers; andI do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such aswill enable others skilled in the art to which it 'pertainsto make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in insect: destroyers; and it consists in certain features of construction and in combination of parts hereinafter described,and pointed out in the claims. I I

The object of the invention is to provide a suitable container, to be carried on the back of the operator, in which paris-green or other material may be properly mixed with water and distributed through a sprinkler.

Paris-green and water do not form a chemical union with each other, but only a mechanical mixture, and the difficulty heretofore has been to maintain a thorough mixture, so that the water discharged would uniformly contain a given amount of the paris-green.

agitation than the can would receive on the back of the operator, the most of the parisg reen would soon settle to the bottom of the can, and pass off with the first water drawn therefrom. I have therefore devised a means of inclosi'ng the paris-green in a distended bag of strain-cloth,suspended in the container and submerged in the water, by means of which to the bottom of the container, and leadingtangentially from the periphery. thereof. This tube is provided with the valve B, preferably a compress-valve, and has attached to the end the sprinkler b.

The can may be provided with straps attached to the loops D, so. as to pass over the shoulders and support the can properly on the back of the operator. I

To the bottom, but inside of the container,

If left. free in the water, and with no more violent (No model.)

is attached the loop a, that may be made of a bent piece of wire soldered to the bottom.

0 is a broad band, preferably of tin, with plenty of large holes through the tin. The band is small enough to be easily inserted in the container, and its only use is to distend the strainer-cloth that incloses it. The cloth is wrapped loosely around the band and tied with the string 0.. There is also a string, 0', attachedcto the bottom of the cloth and pass ing through the loop a. Both these strings pass up through the mouth of the container, and may be fastened by closing the cover. v

The container is filled with water; the parisgreen is inclosed in the bag or distended cloth, which is secured in a desired position in the container; the container is secured to the back of the operator and is ready for user The operation of the device is as follows: The tube B is in a convenient position for grasping with the hand, and by means of the valve the discharge may be regulated as desired. The mixtureof the paris-green with the water is controlled by the cloth. If the paris-green is to be used freely, a coarse cloth is used; if sparingly, a very fine strain-cloth, or even more than one thickness might be used. V

Although'I prefer to have the bag fastened yet I do not limit myself to this use of thebag. A fair result may be had by leaving the bag to float in the can without being confined to the said loop; also, the cloth may first be made into bag form and the band inserted, and the string tied around the neck end of the bag, or the bag may be made by drawing a piece of cloth up around the band and tying it, as shown. I p I Two tubes with'their sprinklers may be used, the one operated by the ,right'handv and Y afree circulation of water through the bag,

substantially as set forth.

2. In an insect-destroyer, the combination,

8o nearthe bottom of the container, as aforesaid, V

with a suitable vessel to receive water, and an able insect-destroying substance, the ring 0, cloth or bag adapted to receive a suitable inand the cords c c, substantially as set forth. sect-destroying substance, and suspended in In testimony whereof I sign this specificasaid vessel, of the perforated. band 0, adapted tion, in the presence of two witnesses, this 19th go distend the cloth orbag, substantially as set day of July, 1883.

orth.

3. In an insect-destroyer, the combination, with the vessel adapted to contain Water and provided with a discl1a1'ge-spont,and the 100p [o a, of the cloth or bag adapted to iuclose a suit- ABRAM NEWKIRK.

Witnesses:

CHAS. H. DoRnR, GEO. W. KING.