A NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR CATCHING OR COLLECTING FLIES, WASPS, BEES, OR OTHER INSECTS
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Fellinger, of Westbourne Park, in the
County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED
APPARATUS FOR CATCHING OR COLLECTING FLIES, WASPS, BEES, OR OTHER
INSECTS." A communication from abroad by Tommaso Costa and
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Fellinger at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
26th April 1875.
I, HENRY FELLINGER, of Westbourne Park, in the County of Mid-
3 dlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A
NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR CATCHING OR COLLECTING FLIES, WASPS,
BEES, OR OTHER INSECTS," a communication to me from abroad by Tommaso
Costa and Angelo Rinaldini, both of Rome, in the Kingdom of Italy, to
be as follows :-
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page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand cight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Henry Fellinger, Her special license
that I, the said Henry Fellinger, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry Fellinger, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,. and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "A NEW OR
IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR CATCHING OR COLLECTING FLIES, WASPS, BEES, OR
OTHER INSECTS," a communication to me from abroad by Tommaso Costa
and Algolo Rinaldini, both of Rome, in the Kingdom of Italy, upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Henry Fellinger, my executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or onc
of their hands and scals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to
be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Fellinger, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the.
following statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention relates to the arrangement and construction of a new.
or improved trap or apparatus for catching or collecting flies, wasps,
becs, or other insects.
And in order that the Invention may be clearly understood and
readily carried into practice, I will proceed to describe the Drawings
hereunto annexed.
Figure 1 is an elevation, partly in section; and Figure 2, a plan in
section of apparatus for catching and collecting flies and other insects
arranged and constructed in accordance with this Invention.
a is a cage or chamber made advantageously of wire gauze, but it
may also be made of perforated metal, or of glass, wood, paper, or other

page_text: suitable material. At the lower end (or other suitable part) of this cage
or chamber small passages a¹, a¹, are formed for the entrance of the flies
or insects into the interior thereof, the entrance passages being made in
such manner that the flies or insects can only pass inwards and not
outwards, owing to the wires which project and contract the passages,
so that when the flies have entered they are unable to return, the
internal projecting wires acting to prevent them doing so.
Within the lower part or compartment a³ of the cage or chamber
honey or other attractive substances or fluids are placed, and when
satisfied the flies or insects can ascend or pass through a contracted 1
passage (or passages) a³ into another and larger chamber or main body
of the cage, from which they are unable to pass back again.
In place of the internal projecting wires balanced lever, tumblers,
turnstiles, or other suitable means or contrivances may be employed to
prevent the flies or insects from returning through the passages by
which they entered.
Poison may be placed in the collecting chamber for the purpose of
killing the flies or insects if desired, or they may be otherwise dis-
posed of.
An outlet with a cover 6 is provided for discharging the contents:
when required.
c is a loop or ring, by which the cage or apparatus may be suspended.
d is a foot or base, which can be readily detached for introducing the
bait when required.
The apparatus may be made plain and inexpensive, or highly orna-
mental if desired, the size and shape being varied according to fancy, or
the purpose or situation in which they are to be placed.
Figure 3 shows a balloon-shaped cage; and Figure 5 one of another
shape, in which the lower or receiving chamber or compartment a³ is
large compared with the collecting chamber 6, being also formed with a
large number of entrance passages a¹.
If desired the apparatus may be made in the form of a vase or
bee hive.
The size of the entrance passages together with the form and arrange-
ment of the apparatus may be suitably adapted for catching or collecting
flies of different kinds, bees, beetles, or other insects.

page_text: In the case of bees they may be collected by this means and trans-
ferred to hives if required.
The apparatus may be made in one or several parts combined, and
they may be applied to cages containing birds or creatures which will
consume the flies or insects as they are caught.
Live flies caught and collected in this apparatus may be employed
for catching fish.
Having thus described the nature of the Invention, and the manner
of performing or carrying the same into practice, what I claim on
behalf of the said Tommaso Costa and Angelo Rinaldini is, the improved
arrangement and construction of cages or apparatus for catching and
collecting flies and other insects, substantially in the manner and for
the purposes herein-before described and represented in the Drawings
hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Fellinger, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of October, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five.
Witness,
J. G. TONGUE,
Patent Agent,
34, Southampton Buildings,
Chancery Lane,
London, W.C.
H. FELLINGER. (L.S.)