Improvements in Apparatus for Killing Weeds.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd June, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Mar., 1894-Accepted, 28th Apr., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Killing Weeds.
I, JOANNA TROTTER GRAFTON Ross of St. Stephens Manor, Cheltenham,
in the County of Gloucester, Gentlewoman, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
Weeds in lawns and other places are commonly killed by thrusting down their
middle a needle or skewer and afterwards pouring in weed killer from a can but this
method involves continual stooping and the soiling of the fingers with the poison.
The apparatus which forms the subject of this invention is provided with a pole
or handle sufficiently long to obviate the necessity of stooping on the part of the
person using the apparatus. A fine tube is fixed along the pole or handle having
a point or skewer at its lower end and a flexible tube at its upper end such tube
leading to a reservoir containing a supply of the poison. Usually the reservoir
hangs down at the end of the flexible tube so that the poison does not escape from
it a sufficient quantity being contained in the tube along the pole or handle to
deliver a few drops each time the needle or skewer is thrust into a weed.
however this tube becomes emptied or it is desired to deliver a larger quantity of
poison the reservoir is raised so that some of its contents escapes down the flexible
tube.
Dated this 22nd day of June 1893.
When
JOANNA TROTTER GRAFTON ROSS.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Killing Weeds.
I, JOANNA TROTTER GRAFTON Ross, of St. Stephens Manor, Cheltenham,
in the County of Gloucester, Gentlewoman, 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 :-
Weeds in lawns and other places are commonly killed by thrusting down their
middle a needle or skewer and afterwards pouring in weed killer from a can but
this method involves continual stooping and the soiling of the fingers with the
poison.
The apparatus which forms the subject of this invention is provided with a pole
or handle sufficiently long to obviate the necessity of stooping on the part of the
person using the apparatus. A fine tube is fixed along the pole or handle having
a point or skewer at its lower end and a flexible tube at its upper end such tube
leading to a reservoir containing a supply of the poison. Usually the reservoir
hangs down at the end of the flexible tube so that the poison does not escape from
it a sufficient quantity being contained in the tube along the pole or handle to
deliver a few drops each time the needle or skewer is thrust into a weed. When
however this tube becomes emptied or it is desired to deliver a larger quantity of
poison the reservoir is raised so that some of its contents escapes down the flexible
tube.
Figure 1 is an elevation of an apparatus made in accordance with this invention.
Figure 2 is an elevation of the same with the lower end of the pole in section.
Figure 3 is a section on the line xx Figure 1.

page_text: In Figure 1 the reservoir a is in a vertical position and in Figure 2 the reservoir a
is shown hanging down at the end of the flexible tube b.
c is the pole with a grooved containing a tube e. The tube e has a small hole f
at its lower end for supplying the poison to the skewer g. The pole c has a
handle attached to it.
When a large and continuous supply of poison is wanted the reservoir a is held
in a vertical position by the wires kk as is shown in Figure 1.
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 :-
1. An apparatus for killing weeds consisting of a pole having a tube running
down it and a spike at the bottom the lower end of the tube having a
small opening and the upper end being so connected to a poison reservoir that the
poison in the reservoir can be discharged down the tube or cut off from it
substantially as described.
2. An apparatus for killing weeds having a reservoir a, a flexible tube b and a
tube e substantially as described.
3. An apparatus for killing weeds substantially as described and shown in the
drawings.
Dated this 21st day of March 1894.
JOANNA TROTTER GRAFTON ROSS.