US424422A

US424422A - Potato-bug exterminator

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Publication number: US424422A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1890-03-25
Anticipated expiration: 1907-03-25

Description

A. J. KU-EHN. POTATO BUG EXTERMINATOR.

Patented Mar. 25, 1890'...

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UNITED STAT S PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT J. KUEI-IN, OF DELHI, ASSIGNOR OF TWO-THIRDS TO LEO SCHOTT AND JNO. IV. STREIILI, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

POTATO-BUG EXTERMINATO R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0.424,422, dated March 25, 1890.

Application filed August 26, 1889. Serial No. 322,048. (No model.)

T at whom it may concern.-

Be itknown thatI, ALBERT J. KUEHN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Cincinnati, in Hamilton county, and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Potato-Bug Exterminators, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a cheap, convenient, and effective device to be used in connection with liquid paris-green to exterminate potato-bugs.

The advantages and features of my invention will become apparent from the following specification and claims.

[5 In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a view of my device as it appears upon the back of the operator and in use. Fig. 2 is a sectional View of the nozzle, hose, and regulating device used by me; and Fig. 3 is a view in elevation of a modification of the parts shown and used in Fig. 2.

A represents the can proper, in which the liquid paris-green is placed through the lid B. The can A is preferably formed of the shape shown and made of galvanized iron. It may be constructed otherwise. Two straps C are securely connected in any suitable manner at D to can A. These straps are free at their other ends, and are provided at these ends with rings E. These straps in use are preferably crossed over the breast, as shown, and the rings E slipped overhooks F on the side of the can, thus allowing the can to fit snugly to the back and bringing it well up in the back, as shown. These straps may be otherwise connected. At the lower corner of the can at each side I provide a tube, as

G, over each of which slips the hose H. The

other end of each hose H is provided with a ferrule I. This ferrule is so shaped that when the opposite end of the hose H is passed through the opening in the nozzle and pulled through the ferrule will fit snugly, as shown 5 in Fig. 2, in the forward end of the nozzle J and make a Water-tight connection. The noz- Z16 J has a very slight internal taper and is largest at the front or delivery end, so that the ferrule will cause the end of the pipe H to be tightly compressed when said pipe is pulled rearwardly through the nozzle; These nozzles J are preferably of a cylindrical shape and formed with a head at their forward end,

as shown, having a hooked portion K. In this hooked portion K, I preferably pivot, as shown in Fig. 2, a regulator L. This regu lator is composed of two arms a a, pivoted at a as shown. Each arm a a is provided with a roller a By pressing on the arm a with the thumb, as shown in Fig. 1, the size of the spray can be regulated as the arm a presses hose H down so that the stream of parts-green water will be smaller or larger according to the amount of pressure exerted by pressing on the arm a of the regulator L, and the stream can be entirely out off by the requisite pressure on the regulator. This is found necessary when filling the can, and when used when the potato-vines are small and the hills far apart. The only difference in the regulating device shown in Fig. 3 is that it is pivoted below and forces the hose upward instead of downward. The dotted lines in Figs. 2 and 3 show how the regulator works and the positions it assumes when mg ulating the streams. This regulator may be differently constructed and regulated.

A spray-cap M is placed over the mouth of each nozzle. It is preferably screw-threaded, as shown.

iVith my device the operator can pass between two rows of potato-vines and spray the liquid parisgreen as he pleases. If desired, only one spray-nozzle need be used and the parts of the device may be slightly modified.

\Vhat I claim as new and of my invention 1s- 1. The combination, with the flexible dis charge-pipe, of a nozzle tapered internally at I its front end, a ferrule in the end of the said pipe for compressing it in the tapering portion of the nozzle when said pipe is pulled rearwardly through the nozzle, and a perforated spray-cap secured over the front end of the nozzle, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination, with the flexible discharge' pipe, of the nozzle provided upon one side and at its rear end with a handle portion, the hooked portion K opposite said han- 10o dle portion and at about the middle of the nozzle and an internal tapering portion at its front end, a ferrule in the end of the pipe for securing it tightly in said tapering portion, a perforated spray-cap secured over the front end of the nozzle, and the arms a a, pivoted to the middle portion of the nozzle and adapted to compress the flexible pipe behind thesaid ferrule and in front of the said handle portion on the nozzle, substantially as 10 and for the purpose set forth.

ALBERT J. KUEHN. Witnesses:

O. M. HILL, E1). STREHLI.