A New or Improved Preparation for Protecting Sugar Canes, Grape Vines, Currant Bushes, and like Plants from the Attacks of Parasites or Injurious Insects or Vegetable Growths.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Mar., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 20th Dec., 1895-Accepted, 8th Feb., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Preparation for Protecting Sugar Canes, Grape
Vines, Currant Bushes, and like Plants from the Attacks of
Parasites or Injurious Insects or Vegetable Growths.
I, JAMES YATE JOHNSON of 47 Lincoln's Inn Fields in the County of
London, Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this invention (which has
been communicated to me from abroad by Augustus Figge of Weser House,
Hameln in the German Empire, Gentleman) to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object to provide a preparation by means of which
plants of a saccharine character such as sugar canes grape vines, current bushes,
and the like are protected from the attacks of parasites or injurious insects or
vegetable growths which generally attack the roots of such plants.
The said preparation consists of natural bitumen in a fine state of division and
mixed with a substance which will have the effect of keeping the particles of
bitumen from amalgamating and forming into lumps or masses. A suitable
substance for this purpose is dry earth, powdered dry clay or powdered chalk or the
like. The admixture of such a substance with the bitumen will have the effect also.
preventing the bitumen from adhering to the roots of the plants in such a manner
as to injure them. In carrying out this invention the natural bitumen when at such
a low temperature as to be brittle is finely ground. It may be brought to the
requisite hardness or brittleness by subjecting it to the cooling or freezing effect of
refrigerating apparatus. The dry earth, powdered clay, chalk or the like is then
introduced and the whole thoroughly mixed together. The materials may be
ground separately and afterwards mixed or they may be ground and mixed by one
and the same operation.
When the mixture is to be applied it is introduced into the ground at the roots
of the plants or the holes in the ground in which the plants are to be set or sown
may have a quantity of the preparation introduced thereinto before the plants are
set or sown therein.
The effect of this preparation so applied will be to kill injurious insects or
parasites and to prevent the attack of such insects or parasites upon the plants, and
the roots and the plants will remain healthy, the materials constituting the
preparation in the condition described having no injurious effect upon the roots
or plants.
Dated this 97th day of March 1805
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,..
47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Preparation for Protecting Sugar Canes, Grape
Vines, Currant Bushes, and like Plants from the Attacks of
Parasites or Injurious Insects or Vegetable Growths.
I, JAMES YATE JOHNSON, of 47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, in the County of
London, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention (which has
been communicated to me from abroad by Augustus Figge of Weser House
Hameln, in the German Empire, Gentleman,) and in what manner the same is to
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page_text: be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention has for its object to provide a preparation by means of which
plants of a saccharine character, such as sugar canes, grape vines, currant bushes
and the like, are protected from the attacks of parasites, or injurious insects,
or vegetable (or fungic) growths, which generally attack the roots of such
plants.
A suitable
The said preparation consists of natural bitumen in a fine state of division and
mixed with a substance which will have the effect of keeping the particles of
bitumen from amalgamating and forming into lumps, or masses.
substance for this purpose is dry earth, powdered dry clay, or powdered chalk, or
the like which may be added in the proportion of 20 to 25 parts thereof to
every 80 to 75 parts of the powdered bitumen though the invention is not limited
to these proportions. The admixture of such a substance with the bitumen will
have the effect, also, of preventing the bitumen from adhering to the roots of the
plants in such a manner as to injure them. In carrying out this invention the
natural bitumen, when at such a low temperature as to be brittle, is finely ground.
It may be brought to the requisite hardness, or brittleness, by subjecting it to the
cooling, or freezing, effect of refrigerating apparatus. The dry earth, powdered
clay, chalk, or the like, is then introduced and the whole thoroughly mixed together.
The materials may be ground separately and afterwards mixed, or they may be
ground and mixed by one, and the same, operation.
When the mixture is to be applied it is introduced into the.ground at the roots
of the plants, or the holes in the ground in which the plants are to be set, or seed
sown, may have a quantity of the preparation introduced thereinto before the plants
are set, or seed sown, therein.
The effect of this preparation so applied will be to kill injurious insects or
parasites and to prevent the attack of such, insects, or parasites, upon the plants,
and the roots and the plants will remain healthy, the materials constituting
the preparation in the condition described having no injurious effect upon the roots,
or plants.
It is intended that the preparation should be known by the name of
"Strabonite."
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
A preparation consisting of finely divided natural bitumen, intimately mixed
with finely divided clay, chalk, earth, or the like; substantially as, and for the
the purposes herein before described.
Dated this 20th day of December 1895
· JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.