Improved Apparatus for Removing Insects from Vines.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Aug., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 21st May, 1897-Accepted, 28th June, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus for Removing Insects from Vines.
I, WASHINGTON REEDER, of Lake City Mich., U.S.A., Inventor, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of the invention is to construct a machine which can be drawn, by.
horaca between rowe, (two rows being operated upon simultaneously) in a manner
to brush bugs from vines into the space between the rows, where the bugs will be
crushed by the passage of the body of the machine over them; the body of the
machine being provided with a keel and a share at each side of the keel. The keel
is at the front of the body, and the back thereof is substantially flat.
A further object of the invention is to provide oars to which brooms are attached;
the oars being readily operated by a person riding upon the body of the machine,
thus enabling the brooms or brushes to be directed upon the vines in the most
efficacious manner to cause the bugs to fall between the rows where they are crushed
as aforedescribed.
The invention comprises a substantially bont-shaped body having a keel with a
share on each side of it, at its front end, its rear part being approximately flat.
A mast extends vertically from the body and has a cross piece, to the ends of
which arms are pivoted. These arms carry brushes or brooms at their outer ends
and are formed with handles at their inner ends to enable a person sitting upon the.
body of the machine to operate them after the manner of oars. Suitable hooks or.
the like project from the body to hold the oar-like arms stationary when not being
operated.
Dated this 21st day of August 1896
PERCY R. J. WILLIS,
Agent for Applicant.
apparatus
I, WASHINGTON REEDER, of Lake City, Mich., U.S.A., Inventor, 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 :-
My invention relates to a machine especially adapted for the removal of potato-
bugs from vines.
The object of the invention is to so construct the machine that it may be drawn
between rows, two rows being operated upon simultaneously and in a manner to
brush the bugs from the vines into the space between the rows where the bugs will
be crushed by the passage of the body of the machine over them, the body of tho
machine being provided with a keel and a share at each side of the keel, the keel
being at the front of the body, and the back being substantially flat. A further
object of the invention is to provide oars to which brooms are attached, the oars

page_text: being readily operated by a person riding upon the body of the machine, thus
enabling the brooms or brushes to be directed upon the vines in the most efficacious
manner.
The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several
parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and 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 views.
Figure 1 is a plan view of the improved machine.
Fig. 2 is a side elevation, and Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the machine.
In carrying out the invention, the body A of the machine is shaped substantially
as the hull of a boat, being given a pointed front 10 and a preferably square rear
portion and the said body is provided with a keel 12, which extends from the
central portion of the front, increasing in depth at a point somewhat at the rear of
the front and diminishing from said point until the keel vanishes at the rear of the
body, and the body at each side of the keel is given a sheer or concavity 13 which
extends from the side edges of the bottom of the keel, as is best shown in Fig. 3.
At the front central portion of the body of the machine a clevis 14 of any
approved construction is placed, to which the team may be attached. A mast or
upright 15 is provided centrally upon the top of the body near the front, and the
said mast has a cross bar 16 attached thereto between its ends, the cross bar
extending beyond opposite sides of the mast, and upon the upper face of the said
cross bar at each end a pin 17 is secured, and arms 18, corresponding substantially
in shape to that of an oar, are fulcrumed upon the said pins, the inner or handle
end of the oar-like arms being carried rearwardly over the body to within
convenient reach of a seat 19.
At the outer end of each of the oar like arms a brush or broom 20 is formed, and
this brush or broom is usually made to extend beyond both sides of the oar like
arms und also preferably beyond their ends. At each side of the body at the rear
of the mast curved standards 21 are firmly secured, their upper ends being shaped
somewhat as a hook, and the handle portions of the oar-like arms may be made to
rest in the upper concaved portions of these standards when the brooms or brushes
are not in use-as, for example, when the machine is being turned around or is
being carried from one field to another-and at the rear of the body a loop 22 is
placed to facilitate raising the rear end of the body when it is desired to turn the
machine.
The machine can he readily turned in the space between rows of potato vines,
and the keel formed on the bottom of the machine effectually prevents the machine
from wabbling as it is drawn along.
The reins of the team, when the horses are quiet, may be attached to the mast
but if the horses are restive they must be guided by the feet of the operator, as the
arma 18 are operated by the hands in like manner as a pair of oars, and in the
operation of the oar-like arms the brooms carried thereby sweep the bugs from
the vines in the path of and in advance of the machine, which in passing over the
bags will crush and destroy them. A chain 23 is attached to the rear of the
body A. and is secured at ench end, so that it will be arrauged as a loop and will
drag along behind the machine, thus adding to its capacity for exterminating the
bugs etc.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
(1.) lu a machine for exterminating bugs, a body adapted to he drawn along the
ground, oar-like arms pivotally supported on the said body, brushes secured to the
outer ends of the said arms, and keepers adapted for engagement with the handle
euds of the oar-like arms, when said arms are not being manipulated, as and for the
purpose specified.

page_text: (2.) A machine for exterminating bugs, the same consisting of a body pointed at
the front and provided with a keel extending from the front, being deepest at that
point and diminishing at the rear, a mast secured upon the body near its forward
end, a cross bar attached to the mast, oar-like arms pivoted on the said oross bar,
brushes carried by the outer ends of the said arms and keepers adapted for
engagement with the bandle ends of the arms, as and for the purpose specified.
(3.) A device for destroying bugs, comprising a body, adapted to be drawn along
between the hills, arms pivoted at their central portions to the said cross bar with
their ends arranged to project beyond the sides of the same in position to engage
the vines and having their inner ends adjacent to each other and in a position to
be operated by the hands of the attendant, and brushes on the projecting ends of
said arms substantially as set forth.
P. R. J. WILLIS,
Agent for Applicant.