Improvements in Fumigators.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 1st July, 1898-Accepted, 17th Sept., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fumigators.
I, JOSEPH TUTTLE COMMOSS, of 234, Broadway, in the City, County, and State
of New York, United States of America, Manufacturer, 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 general object of my invention is the employment of a strand of com-
bustible material, which is saturated with a chemical substance in the nature
of a fumigator, and to be used in toilet rooms and other similar places; and my
invention is embodied in a structural device including a strand of twine or other
similar combustible material saturated with a chemical substance, and a sup-
porting card or spool on which the strand is wound between the ends of the card;
the card having at one end an eyelet hole for its suspension from a nail or the
like, and having at the other end a stud or button with a notch in the face
thereof adapted to receive and clamp or compress the free end or portion of the
strand. In practice, a portion of the combustible strand upon the supporting
card is unwound therefrom and inserted in the notch of the clamping button,
in such a manner as to leave a portion of the strand depend from the button, 30
that if this pendant end of the strand is ignited it has the effect of fumigating
the atmosphere of the apartment in which the device may be used.
In the accompanying drawing:
Figure I represents a side view of a fumigator embodying my invention.
Figure II represents a like view thereof omitting the combustible strand.
Figure III represents an end view of the device corresponding to Figure II:
Similar letters of reference indicate similar parts in each of the figures.
The letter A indicates the body of the supporting card; B the eyelet hole at
one end of the card; C the clamping button at the other end thereof; C¹ the
notch of the button, and D the strand of twine or other similar combustible
material wound on the card. The location of this strand D, is between the ends
of the card; and in order to insure the retention of the strand upon the card,
the latter is usually and preferably enlarged at both of its ends, as at e, e, such
enlarged portions of the card acting as stops or abutments to prevent endwise
displacement of the wound strand.
The manner of using the device is clearly illustrated in Figure I, and consists
in unwinding a portion of the strand D), and forcing the same into the notch C¹,
of the clamping button, and so as to permit the extreme free end or portion of the
strand to depend from the button and card, where it may be readily ignited.
The pendant end of the strand D, thus ignited, will burn until its combustion
is arrested by the button C, in the notch of which the strand is compressed, and
hence the button performs the dual function of a strand holder and extinguisher.
It should be understood that instead of the notched button, may use any other
contrivance which will answer the purpose thereof.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim, is:
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A fumigator for toilet rooms and 'other similar places, composed of the strand-
supporting card, with an eyelet hole at one end for its suspension from a nail
or the like and a notched button at the other end thereof, forming a strand holder
and extinguisher, and of a strand of combustible material which is wound on
the card between its ends and adapted to engage and interlock with the notched
button, substantially as herein described.
thi 16th day of Tune 1898