Improvements in or appertaining to Fly-papers or Fly-cloths for Catching or Killing Flies.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Oct., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 15th July, 1891-Accepted, 10th Oct., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or appertaining to Fly-papers or Fly-cloths for
Catching or Killing Flies.
I, SAMUEL WILSON, of 71 Duke Street, St. Helens, in the County of Lancaster,
Fly Paper Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
:―
This invention has for its object an arrangement of fly-paper which can if
desirable be hung up in front of the window or in any other convenient place, and
which is preserved from the atmosphere except at those parts which are actually
being used, and which parts, as they are used up, can be torn off and thrown away.
I form a roll of fly-paper or fly cloth formed of a backing of sufficiently stout
material coated or treated with almost any sticky or poisonous material now used for
catching flies. It can be coated on one side or on both sides; in some cases I may
coat it with a material which is not sticky until it is sponged over with a given
liquid a bottle of the liquid is then sold with the roll. In other cases, I spread
the material on the backing on one or both sides in the sticky condition but use a
material which shall not set so that the roll can always be unrolled as required.
This can be effected by using glycerine or other non-dryable material in the
composition, or having the backing sufficiently impermeable.
Dated this 13th day of October 1890.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Patent Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or appertaining to Fly-papers or Fly-cloths for
Catching or Killing Flies.
I, SAMUEL WILSON of 71 Duke Street, St. Helens in the County of Lancaster,
Fly Paper 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 :-
This invention has for its object an arrangement of fly-paper which can, if
desirable, be hung up in front of the window, or in any other convenient place, and
which is preserved from the atmosphere, except at those parts which are actually
being used, and which parts, as they are used up, can be torn off and thrown away.
Reference may be had to the accompanying drawings.
In these:-
may coat
A, is a roll of fly-paper or fly-cloth, formed of a backing or web of sufficiently
stout material and coated with almost any sticky substance now used for catching
flies. It can be coated on one side or on both sides, and, in some cases,
the paper only on one side and form it of a material which is not sticky (such as
dry glue) until it is sponged over with a given liquid (such as glycerine), a bottle
of the liquid is then sold with the roll. In other cases, I spread the material on
the backing on one or both sides in the sticky condition, but use a material which
shall not set, so that the roll can always be unrolled as required. This can be
effected by using glycerine or other non-dryable material in the composition. When
the sticky coating is put on one side only, the other side will become coated when
the web is rolled up. B is the roller on which the web A is rolled; C, looped
pieces of string by which the roll may be suspended.

page_text: The invention is also applicable to arsenical and other papers that are not
sticky.
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
claim is :-
1. The improvement in fly-papers or fly-cloths, which consists in forming them
of a roll of stout material coated or impregnated with any suitable substance used
for killing or catching flies, the said roll being capable of being unrolled as required,
whereby it is preserved from the atmosphere except those parts which are actually
being used, which parts, as they are used up, can be torn off and thrown away,
substantially as described.
2. The herein described arrangement of fly-papers or fly-cloths for catching or
killing flies, substantially as set forth.
Dated this 14th day of July 1891
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, and London, Patent Agents.