An Improved Appliance for Entrapping Beetles or like Vermin.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Jan., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 30th Oct., 1893-Accepted, 2nd Dec., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Appliance for Entrapping Beetles or like Vermin.
We, JOHN EMANUEL WINSPEAR, of No. 360 Askew Road West, Gateshond,
in the County of Durham, Confectioner, and ROBERT WAUGH, of No. Low
Friar Street, in the City and County of Newcastle upon Tyne, Wholesale Grocer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The invention relates to an appliance by which beatles are entrappel, the
advantages being simplicity of application and cheapness of the article proposed to
be used.
We intend to construct a cone, preferably of paper, the apex of which, being
bent inwards, resembling the shape of a funnel, such funnel shape having at its
bottom an inlet of sufficient size to allow the beetles to drop through. This cone
may be "crumpled " or roughened on its outer surface ao as to afford facility for
crawling up, and the surface of the funnel at top may be roughened or smooth. For
the capture of beetles the cone is placed over the top of a jar, glass or such like
vessel containing some attractive substance, liquid preferably. The cone being
placed over this vessel must rest with its base close upon the floor and on the
beetles crawling up the sloping sides to the top they will proceed down the sides of
the funnel shaped cone and fall through the open mouth in to the vessel from which
they can be readily removed and, if not drowned, lestroyed.
The trap itself, especially when made of paper, may be saturated or coated with
some scent by which the beetles will be attracted to its vicinity apart from the
scent of the substance in the jar.
Dated this 30th day of January 1893.
T. J. DANSON,
By L. W., per F. B.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Appliance for Entrapping Beetles or like Vermin.
We, JOHN EMANUEL WINSPEAR, of No. 360 Askew Road West, Gateshead,
in the County of Durham, Confectioner, and ROBERT WAUGH, of No. 7 Low
Friar Street, in the City and County of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Wholesale Grocer,
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 invention relates to an appliance by which beetles are entrapped the
advantages being simplicity of application and cheapness of the article proposed to
be used.
We intend to construct a cone, preferably of paper the apex of which being
bent inwards resembling the. shape of a funnel such funnel shape having at its
bottom an inlet of sufficient size to allow the beetles to drop through. This cone
may be "crimpled " or rougheued on its outer surface so as to afford facility for
crawling up and the surface of the funnel at top may be roughened or smooth.
For the capture of beetles the cone is placed over the top of a jar, glass or such
like vessel containing some attractive substance, liquid proferably. The cone being
placed over this vessel must rest with its base close upon the floor and on the
beetles crawling up the sloping sides to the top they will proceed down the
sides of the funnel shaped cone and fall through the open mouth into the vessel
from which they can be readily removed nud, if not drowned, destroyed.

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The trap itself, especially when made of paper, may be saturated or coated with
some scent by which the beetles will be attracted to its vicinity apart from the
scent in the jar.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
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The accompanying drawing shews the appliance one half in section the other
half in full outside elevation and will be readily understood.
The cone A is shewn with corrugated sides but the apex B, where turned inward
and downward, will preferably be plain and smooth. Within, and covered by the
cone when standing on its base, is a glass vessel or jar C containing some attractive
liquid and the mouth of the inverted apex of the cone may project into the mouth
of the vessel C to keep the trap in position.
The principal object being to produce the appliance in a cheap form we have
hitherto used paper as the material of which, with suitable implements and made by
girls, we at present put them on the market at one penny each but the appliance
may be made of other materials of more permanent character, the form and mode
of operation being the same, at some slight increase of price.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manuer the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
The improved appliance for trapping beetles or like vermin, consisting of a cone
the base of which rests upon a floor or other flat surface and the apex is turned
inward and downward in the shape of a funnel open at bottom the cone having
plain or corrugated (or crimped) surfaces the interior of the funnel shaped apex
being preferably smooth the apparatus being placed over a glass or other vessel
containing some.attractive liquid.
Dated this 30th day of October 1893.
T. J. DANSON,
Chartered Patent Agent,
Agent for Applicants.