An Improved Method of and Apparatus for Removing Green Fly and other Noxious Insects from Plants.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Oct., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 9th Jan., 1891-Accepted, 14th Feb., 1891
An Improved Method of and Apparatus for Removing Green Fly
and other Noxious Insects from Plants.
I, WILLIAM RYLAND, of No. 5, Grove Road, Rock Ferry, in the County of
Chester, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said invention for
REMOVING GREEN FLY AND OTHER NOXIOUS INSECTS FROM PLANTS to be as
follows:-
A current of water proceeding from an elastic bag held in and compressed by
the hand or from some other suitable vessel is made to pass through a tube to the
centre of and amongst the bristles of a brush attached to the tube in such a
manner that the combined action of the brush in dislodging and of the water in
washing away removes the injurious insects.
Dated this 21st day of October 1890.
An Improved Method of and Apparatus for Removing Green Fly
and other Noxious Insects from Plants.
I, WILLIAM RYLAND, of No. 5, Grove Road, Rock Ferry, in the County of
Chester, Gentleman, 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 my invention is the removal of green fly and other, noxious insects
from plants.
I effect my object by the apparatus delineated in the accompanying drawing by
which apparatus a current of water from some suitable vessel preferably an elastic
bag, A, capable of being held in and compressed by the hand and attached to one
end of a tube, B, is made to pass through this tube to the centre of and amongst
the fibres of a brush, C, attached to the other end of the tube.
The method by which I use and perform my said invention is as follows-The
elastic bag is compressed and the brush is immersed beneath the surface of water.
On allowing the elastic bag to expand the water is sucked up between the fibres of
the brush and through the tube into the elastic bag. The brush is then applied in
the common mode of using a brush to the part of the plant to be cleansed of the
insects the elastic bag being at the same time compressed by the hand to a degree
sufficient to cause a flow of water through and amongst the fibres of the brush
sufficient to wash away the insects when and as their hold on the plant is loosened
by the action of the brush.
The use of a brush for the purpose of cleansing plants of insects is not new
neither is the use for the same purpose of a jet or current of water.
What is new
and what I have invented is the aforesaid apparatus for effecting the cleansing of
plants from insects by the combined action of a brush and a flow of water.
The apparatus may also be used for washing and cleaning the leaves and stems of
succulent and other plants.

page_text: 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
The hereinbefore described apparatus for effecting by the combined action of a
brush and current of water the removal of green fly and other noxious insects from
plants.