US560040A

US560040A - Fly-catcher

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Publication number: US560040A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1896-05-12
Anticipated expiration: 1913-05-12

Description

(No Model.) 9 V W. M. MAYNADIER. v

FLY OATGHER. No. 560,040. Patented May 12, 1896.

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WILLIAM MASON MAYNADIER, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

FLY-CATCH ER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 560,040, dated May 12, 1896.

Application filed August 2,1895.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM Mason MAY- NADIER, of the city of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain Improvements in Fly-Catchers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention consists in the combination, with a partially-darkened window, of a plate of glass, celluloid, or other transparent material, upon which is spread the transparent adhesive substance usually employed in sticky fly-paper, the prepared glass plate being placed against the portion of the window through which light is admitted to the apartment and with the sticky or prepared surface toward the room.

In the further description of the said invention which follows reference is made to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof, and in which- Figure 1 is a front View of a window as seen from the inside of the room to which the window gives light. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of Fig. 1, taken on the dotted line a: x.

Referring now to the drawings, A is a window-frame, and B and O are the sash thereof. D represents the glass in the sash B and O. E is a blind of ordinary construction and arrangement with reference to the window.

F is a plate of glass, celluloid,0r other trans- $erial No. 553,009. (No model.)

parent or translucent material, on one side of which is applied a coating of transparent sticky material. The prepared glass plate is placed in an inclined or nearly Vertical position on the sill a, with its upper corners resting against the window-frame A and with the sticky side toward the room. The blind E is then drawn down until its lower edge laps the upper edge of the prepared glass plate. The flies in the room are attracted toward the light, and in their efiort to reach the light come in contact with the sticky surface of the glass plate F and are caught, as shown in the drawings.

Prepared plates applied as described and shown are found to rid an apartment of flies in a short space of time.

I claim as my invention In combination With a partially-darkened window, a sheet of glass or other transparent material treated with a sticky substance which is placed against the portion of the window through which light is admitted, and with the sticky side toward the room to which the said window gives light,substantially as specified.

WILLIAM MASON MAYNADIER.

IVitn esses XVM. T. HOWARD, DANL. FISHER.