Devices for Catching Beetles, Bugs, and other Vermin, or for Pro- tecting Bedsteads and other Articles of Furniture from their Attacks.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Apr., 1897-Accepted, 10th July, 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Devices for Catching Beetles, Bugs, and other Vermin, or for Pro-
tecting Bedsteads and other Articles of Furniture from their
Attacks.
We, GABRIEL SZIKLA of IV Felso erdosor 1, Professor, and KARL EYSSEN,
ot IV Varosligeti-fasor, Building Contractor, both of Budapest, in the Kingdom
of Hungary, 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:-
The present invention consists of a device for preventing beetles, bugs, and other
vermin from climbing up the legs of bedsteads and other pieces of furniture and
comprises the details of construction hereinafter particularly set forth.
And in order to render the present Specification more easily intelligible reference
is had to the accompanying drawing in which similar letters of reference denote
similar parts throughout the several views:-
Fig.
is a side elevation of the device,
Fig. 2 a plan, and
Fig. 3 a central vertical section therethrough.
In the form of embodying my invention as shown in the drawing, the same
consists of a base plate a having tapering upwardly extending walls, said plate
being advantageously of circular plan. A concentric annular depression 6 is
formed in the upper surface of this plate, said depression being advantageously
enlarged at its bottom and having very smooth interior walls. The central part.
of the device is raised as at c and provided with an upper roughened surface as
at d on which the lower end of the leg of the bedstead or other piece of furniture
rests.
The device may be made of any suitable material which is capable of receiving
a very smooth surface within the annular depression. The outer walls of the same
need not be so smooth as the inner walls of the groove b so that the insects will be
able to crawl up the same, they will fall into the groove b from which they cannot
escape owing to the smooth walls of the same.
Instead of the groove b the outer walls of the base plate may be made very
smooth and cylindrical instead of tapered so that the insects will be prevented from
crawling up the same. The exterior form of the device illustrated may be varied
in any manner, the same may be pyramidal, cylindrical prismatic or of any other
shape. The surface d on which the leg of the furniture stands may also be sunk,
so as to prevent the furniture from being elevated by the device above the usual
level.
The device may be made of glass, porcelain metal or other suitable material.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is performed we declare that what
we claim is:-
(1.) Device for catching beetles bugs and other vermin and for protection against
the same, which consists of a conical, pyramidal, cylindrical or prismatic
base plate a having therein a central raised portion and a more or less depressed
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page_text: part of the top thereof to receive the furniture and having around said central
portion a depression having smooth inner surface as specified.
(2.) A modified form of the device covered by Claim 1 according to which the
groove is omitted and the outer walls of the base plate made perfectly smooth,
the surface for receiving the leg of the furniture being more
substantially as described.
or less sunk
CALIN OUR day of Apr 11.
CASTLE SMITH,
"Invention" Office, Mitre Court, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicants.