An Improved Plant Protector.
Year: 1890

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Plant Protector.
We LINN BOYD MOORE, M.D. and MATTHEW SILAS LOVE Shoemaker both of
Morley in the County of Scott and State of Missouri, United States of America, 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 object of our invention is to produce a device which will not only shelter a
young plant from the cold wind and rain, but will also serve as a reservoir to collect
moisture and precipitate the same upon a young plant, thereby aiding in it rapid
development and early maturity; furthermore, to produce a device of the above
description which shall be of the highest efficiency and durability in use and of the
greatest simplicity in construction.
With these objects in view the invention consists in the improved construction and
combination of parts of a plant protector, as will be hereinafter fully described in the
the specification, illustrated in the drawings, and pointed out in the claim.
In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, in which like
letters of reference indicate corresponding parts, Fig. 1 is a perspective view of our
improved plant protector. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view, and Fig. 3 is a detail
view, of a wire gauze used to regulate the ventilation, and also to exclude the entrance
of bugs or other vermin to the plant.
Referring to the drawings, A designates the base portion of our device consisting of
a rectangular funnel 1 constructed preferably of glass although this base portion may
be made of any other suitable material which will admit light to the plant--such, for
instance, as oiled paper, isinglass, or other analogous substance-but for cheapness and
durability glass is preferred. At a point near the top of this funnel are formed
inward-projecting flanges 2 upon which rests a gauze screen 3 for excluding the
vermin from the young plant. This gauze screen may be either circular in form or
square to agree with the shape of the funnel and may be secured upon the flanges or
allowed to lie thereon. Extending upward and beyond these flanges is a neck
portion 4 in which fits another funnel shaped portion or moisture collector 5 also
constructed of glass. The object of having this second funnel-shaped portion is that
when it rains or when a heavy dew is falling it will be collected and precipitated upon
the young plant below.
As seen in Fig. 1 the device is placed over a plant, and all air is excluded from the
sides and ends, while the sunlight can penetrate the sides and beat upon the young
plant and by reason of the fact that the sides are made of glass the heat will be
intensified, thus aiding in the rapid maturity of the plant.
It will be seen, readily, that, although this device is exceedingly simple of con-
struction, it will be found of the highest efficiency and durability in use, and may be
constructed at a slight expense.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
In a plant protector the combination of the base portion, the flanges formed at the
top thereof, the wire gauze resting upon the flanges, and a moisture collector fitting
in the said base portion and above the gauze screen substantially as described.
Dated this 15th of January 1890.
LINN BOYD MOORE.
MATTHEW SILAS LOVE.
By their Agents, Horn & Son.