Wasp and Fly Trap.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Aug., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 8th Dec., 1893-Accepted, 13th Jan., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Wasp and Fly Trap.
FRANK OCTAVIUS COMBRIDGE 1, 'Octavia Place, Victoria Road Watford,
Hertfordshire, Builders Clerk do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
A jar about four inches in diameter and about eight inches in height, to have a
detachable lid formed like a funnel resting on jar inverted.
The trap is complete when a little jam or marinalade is inserted and the jar half
filled with water. Wasp's and fly's atracted by the scent flock to the lid and quickly
pas through small hole in funnel lid, and once in, they cannot find way out, after
climing up sides in vain they fall into water and die.
The lid is left detachable for cleansing purposes.
It is proposed to be made in different sizes and shapes, plain or ornamental and
manufactured in glas earthenware, enamelled iron or any other suitable material.
Dated this 28th day of August 1893.
Wasp and Fly Trap.
I FRANK OCTAVIUS COMBRIDGE, of 1, Octavia Place, Victoria Road, Watford,
Hertfordshire, Builders Clerk, 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 an improved trap for catching wasps and the like, and has
for its object to provide a trap that shall be effective in operation and simple and
inexpensive of construction.
And in order that the said invention may be the more readily understood, I have
shewn same upon the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings, wherein :
Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation, and
Fig. 2 a plan of the device.
a is the body of the trap, preferably of a cylindrical form, and greater in height
than in circumference, as shewn. One end of this jar-like body is closed, whilst
the other is open, over which open end is fitted a lid 6 having the form of a hollow
cone, or funnel, open at both ends as shewn. This lid is provided with a flange b¹
running around the periphery of the broad or upper end of same, which flange is
designed to rest upon the upper edge of the body of the trap a as shewn.
In operation the sides of the trap body or of the funnel-shaped lid are smeared
with any sweet substance such as marmalade, for instance, and the body of the trap
then partly filled with water. The scent of the marmalade will attract the wasps,
house-flies or the like, and cause them to pass through the aperture 62 in the said
funnel-shaped lid b, and once inside, the form of the trap renders it almost an
impossibility for such wasps or the like to find their way out again, the water at
the bottom of the trap body, eventually receiving them.
The lid b is preferably detachable for cleansing and similar purposes, and the
whole can be formed of earthenware, glass, enamelled iron, or any other suitable
material, and the general form of the trap can be varied as will be found desirable
or convenient.

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 :-
A trap for catching wasps and the like, consisting of a cylindrical or other jar-
like body provided with a funnel-shaped flanged lid resting on the upper edges of
the body and projecting downwardly some distance into the body of the trap
substantially as described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 8th day of December 1893.
HUGHES, SON & Co.,
38, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.