US834746A - Pollen-collecting device. - Google Patents

Description

' EUGENE 'MoULIE, OF JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA. POLLEN-COLLECTING /DEVICE Specification (if Letters Patent.

Application filed June 12, 1906. Serial No. 321,325.

Patented Oct. 30, 1906.

all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, EUGENE MoULIE, a

; citizen of the United States, and a resident of Jacksonville, in the county of Duval and State of Florida, have invented a new and Improved Pollen-Collecting Device, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. p i r This invention relates to pollen-collecting devices by means of which pollen is collected foru se in the manufacture of medicines and the like, and is particularlyuseful in connection with devices of this character in which severed twigs or branchesbearingblossoms from which the pollen is'to' be collected are .held with their stems immersed in water or V A further object of the invention is to proother liquid contained in a vessel.

vide a pollen-collecting device which may be easily moved about from place to place and in which the twigs or branches are retained comparatively secure against accidental displacementf I The invention consists in the construction and combination ofparts to be more fully described hereinafter and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a transverse cross-section of the device in use. Fig. 2 is a similar longitudinal cross-section, and Fig. 3 is a plan view, of my invention.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, I provide a vessel or tank 1, which may be of any suitable shape, but is preferably rectangular in form, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The vessel may be made of sheet metal.

or other suitable material and is provided at the ends with handles 2, loosely mounted in sockets 3, rigidly secured to the sides. By means of these handles the device may be easily moved from place to place as circumstances require. Near the bottom of the vessel and on one of the sides I provide a small tube 4, communicating with the interior, by means of which the vessel may be emptied of the water or other fluid within it when so desired by simply allowing the water to flow out through the tube or through a hose attached to the tube. The tube may be closed ordinarily by inserting a cork or plug 5 in the end thereof. It will be understood that if so desired this tube 4 may be replaced by a faucet or turn-cock.

Across the open top of the vessel I provide tudinal bars 7, crossing the transverse bars 6 at substantially right angles. The bars are secured to the edges of the vessel by having their extremities bent over these edges and a pair of transverse bars 6 and a pair of longisoldered or otherwise rigidly attached there I J to. The bars are located across the top the vesselparallel, respectively, to the sides and longitudinal edges and at a small distance from the same, as shown most clearlyin 3. Mounted upon the cross-bars is a top 8 of sheet metal or other suitable material, the

edge'sof which are bent around the bars and sold ered or otherwise suitably secured thereto.

of the vesseLl, but leaves lateral openings 9 between these edges and the top. The top is provided with an opening 10 substantially in the center, which may be of any suitable "The top 8 does not extend to theedg es n form, but is preferably rectangular, as shown most clearly in Fig. 3. This opening is formed by making two substantially-para-l- 8o lel transverse cuts in the sheet metal comprising the top and a longitudinal cut joining the two transverse cuts. The flaps 11 of the metal thus separated on three sides are then gent downward, as shown most clearly in When it is desired to use this device for collecting the pollen from plants, twigs or branches 13 of these plants are severed and are then inserted throughthe lateral openings 9 with their stems extending into the vessel in adiagonally-downward direction, as

shown most clearly in Fig. 1, said stems being immersed in the liquid, preferably water, with which the vessel is filled. The device is placed upon a sheet of paper 12 or othermaterial and is located in a closed room in which the temperature is maintained constantly at a suitable point and from which drafts are excluded, which would be liable to disturb the pollen or blow it away. As the ends of the twigs or branches project beyond the sides of the vessel and extend over the paper upon which the device is placed, the pollen 14 as it separates from the blossoms will fall upon this paper, from which it is easily. collected from time to time. As the stems of the twigs are immersed in water, the blossoms will remain fresh and-will graduallyfripen under the favorable circumstances of moisture and constant proper temperature.

The downwardly-projecting flaps 11 are 5 useful in holding the twigs 13 submerged and preventing their accidental displacement. It

is of advantage to changethe water or other liquid in the vessel from time to time, and

this may be done without disturbing the 1 plants by withdrawing the liquid through the tube 4 and replacing it with fresh liquid by opening whereby the vessel may be lled 2 5 with liquid.

1 2. A device of the class described, comprising a vessel adapted to contain a liquid, a

top on said vessel, and openings betweerrsaid' top and said vessel, adapted to allow'the in- 0 sertion of twigs and the lik fia'id top having an opening whereby the vessel may be filled with a liquid.

' 3. A device bf the class described, comprising a vessel adapted to contain a liquid, a

top extending toward the sides of said vessel and having lateral projections adapted to eng'ageEwith the edges jjof said vessel to hold said top in place, and openings between said top and said vessel adapted to allow the insertion of twigs and the like, said to having an opening whereby the vessel may e filled with a liquid. j

4. A device of the class described, comprising a vessel adapted to contain a liquid, cross-bars secured to the edges of said vessel and extending across the same, a top mounted on said cross-bars, openings between said top and the edges of said vessel adapted to allow the insertion of twigs and the like in a diagonally-downward direction, and an opening in said top whereby said vessel may be filled with a liquid.

5. A device of the class described, comprising a vessel, cross-bars secured to the edges of said vessel and extending across the same substantially parallel to the edges thereof, a top mounted upon said bars, and openings between said top and the edges of said vessel adapted to allow the insertion of twigs and the like with the tops thereof extending beyond the sides of said vessel, said top having an opening-whereby said vessel may be filledwithaliquid, said opening having edges disposed'downwardly to act as guards to retain the stems of said twigs immersed in the liquid.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EUGENE MOULIE.

Witnesses:

J. I. HOLLINGSWORTH, FRED T. BARNETT.

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