Improvements in or relating to Fly Catching Devices, with Means or Appliance to Facilitate Smearing the Composition on Raffia or String.
Year: 1898

page_text: Improvements in or relating to Fly Catching Devices, with Means or
Appliance to Facilitate Smearing the Composition on Raffia or
String.
I, JOSEPII NEWTON WRIGHT, of High Street, Ilford, County of Essex, Chemist,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for object the manufacture of a box or container for fly paste
and in which in the top and bottom rubber or like damp proof dises or diaphragms
are arranged or secured by plain or flanged rings or openworked discs forced into
recesses of the top and bottom of the box respectively.
In connection with such a box I employ a stilleto or piercing appliance with
a shoulder to limit the distance to which it shall be passed through for a length
of raffia, of tape or of string to be inserted into a hole, slot or notch of the stilleto
to enable the raffia to be looped into for being drawn through the paste and be
smeared with the composition.
The diaphragms reclose their holes as the stilleto and raffia are removed the
box being then kept intact for future use for the same purpose.
Dated this 9th day of March 1898
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said J. N. Wright.
Improvements in or relating to Fly Catching Devices, with Means or
Appliance to Facilitate Smearing the Composition on Raffia or
String.
I, JOSEPH NEWTON WRIGHT, of High Street, Ilford, County of Essex, Chemist,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to
be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention has for object a fly paste container or box in which rubber or
like damp proof discs or diaphragms are arranged or secured in the top and bottom
of the box respectively.

page_text: In connection with such a box I employ a stiletto or piercing appliance to which
a length of raffia, of tape or of string can be attached, such as inserted into a hole,
slot or notch of the stiletto to enable it to be drawn through the paste and be
smeared with the composition.
The diaphragms, say, of rubber, may be plain or slitted to be easily pierced
and to reclose their slits as the stiletto and rattia are removed, the box being then
kept intact for future use for the same purpose.
My invention will be understood by reference to the annexed drawings in
which
Figure 1, is a sectional elevation of a fly paste container of flat shallow box
shape in which the rubber diaphragms are secured to the inside of the container
by a ring.
Figure 2, is a perspective view of a fly paste container of flat shallow box shape
with a hooked nose stiletto in the position it occupies and with the string attached
previous to being coated with fly paste.
Figure 3 is a sectional elevation of a barrel shape of fly paste container with a
holed end stiletto in place ready for receiving the string previous to being coated
with fly paste.
Figure 4 is a perspective view of a fly paste container with a holed stiletto in
position previous to the attachment of the string, the rubber diaphragms being
held by Hanged wings formed by slitting the box body.
Figure 5 is a section of Figure 4.
Figure 6 is a sectional elevation of a fly paste container with the rubber dia-
phragm held by a ring in a depressed portion of the box.
Figures 7 and 8 are perspective views of an ordinary box or fly paste container
having a stiletto or needle passed into same and carrying the string previous to
being coated.
Figure 1 represents in section a flat shallow box A with the ends B, B, holed
and filled up by rubber discs C for holding paste in position.
Figure 2 perspective elevation of such a box A with stiletto D passed into and
projecting from the rubber discs C and with a short length of raffia or tape E in
the crook or hook F of the stiletto D ready to be drawn through the box A for the
raffia or other material to be smeared by the paste, the handle G of the stiletto D
being looped so that it can be suspended from a nail or other appliance for the
smeared raffia or tape to hang loosely in order that flies may be drawn to it to
lodge and be thereby caught.
In these views the rubber discs C are confined by flange rings H secured on the
inner faces of the ends B, B, of the box respectively these having holes in them
so that the rubber discs C can be exposed.
The paste is of a slimy clinging character and has no tendency to run or ooze
through the slits of the rubber discs C after being once pierced.
Figure 3, represents a narrow barrel shape of box A with the stiletto D passed
through as at Figure 1, the paste being shown by the etching.
Figure 4 shows a box A similar to Figure 1 except that the rubber discs C are
larger and secured in position by flange wings I, I, formed by slitting the box
ends B, B, from the central holes to near the peripheries, the wings I, I, being
bent upwards and downwards alternately and after the rubber discs C are inserted,
the wings I, I, are pressed into contact with the rubber C as represented at Figure 5.
Figure 6 cross section of a fly paste container or shallow box A of which the
ends B, B, are depressed at the portion J and then by a stamping operation brought
up again and flattened next the central hole, so that an inner shoulder is formed
in each for the reception of flanged ring piece K into which the rubber diaphragm
or disc C fits, so that the flanged ring piece when pushed in becomes fixed, the
rubber being between said flange piece and the end of the box.
I have in the foregoing referred to a stiletto being pushed through the rubber
discs that construction or arrangement being reliable if the boxes be of metal
or of other comparatively hard material and prevents the fingers being smeared

page_text: but when sharp pointed appliances such as large thick needles with eyes and sharp
points are employed, the boxes containing the fly paste may be of cardboard or
the like which can be readily pierced, say a pill box around the meeting seam
of body and lid of which a liner or other strong tape can be gummed to prevent
the contents oozing out. This will be understood by reference to Figures 7 and 8
one of which shows a needle passed through from the side of the box and the
other with a needle passed downwardly through the ends B, B.
The disadvantage of this last method is:-if a threaded needle be pushed
through the box the needle which becomes more or less smeared with the paste
in the operation tends to soil the fingers of the person who must of necessity
catch hold of the pointed portion of the needle to draw it and the raffia through
whereas by the first or stiletto method the fingers need not be brought into contact
with the paste the handle portion of the stiletto being kept outside and provided
with an eye or loop by which to hang it from a nail or from the crutch of a gas
tap which in a private dwelling house is generally in or near the centre of a room,
a position where flies do mostly congregate.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
1. An apparatus for covering strings with fly paste consisting of a box having
holes in opposite ends, a rubber diaphragm covering each hole and secured to the
apparatus substantially as specified.
2. An apparatus for covering strings with fly paste consisting of box A having
holed ends B, B, rubber discs C, C, fitting said holes in conjunction with stiletto
or piercing appliance D having a crook or eye F into which raffia, tape or cord
can be looped for drawing through and become smeared with the paste as and
for the purpose specified.
3. An apparatus for holding fly catching paste which can be smeared on a
material drawn through it consisting of a box A, wings I, I, in holed ends B, B,
for nipping rubber dises C, C, rigidly in place, in conjunction with a hooked or
eyed stiletto on which raffia, tape or cord can be looped or threaded for the purpose
specified.
Danh 15th day of Navamhan 1908
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said J. N. Wright.