Fly Brush or Dresser for Turnips and other Crops.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 8th June, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 16th June, 1893-Accepted, 22nd July, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Fly Brush or Dresser for Turnips and other Crops.
We, DAVID JOHN SMITH of Outwell near Wisbech, Agricultural Implement
Maker, and CLAYTON FLINT of Needham House, Elm Wisbech, Farmer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
It consists of a tank for containing a chemical solution suitable for destroying
insects with a
pipe or pipes communicating with a horizontal supply tube, from
which the liquid is supplied to hanging canvas or other cloth suspended from a
horizontal bar.
This apparatus can be mounted on a frame and carried on wheels, or may be
attached to a horse-hoe or other suitable implement.
The special feature is the bar with canvas, which being saturated is dragged
over the crop and which dresses the leaves and stalk of the plant as it passes.
Our invention is applicable to root crops and to mustard, beans, peas and any
similar crop which is liable to the attacks of destructive insects.
Dated this 8th day of June 1802
S. S. BROMHEAD,
97, Newgate Street, E.C., Agent for Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Fly Brush or Dresser for Turnips and other Crops.
We, DAVID JOHN SMITH of Outwell near Wisbech, Agricultural Implement
Maker, and CLAYTON FLINT of Needham House, Elm, Wisbech, Farmer, 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:—
This invention is designed to supply a ready and effectual means of preventing
the ravages of insects on root crops and on the young plants of other crops such
as beans peas, mustard and the like.
I will now describe it with reference to the accompanying drawings in which
Fig. 1 shews a back elevation of the apparatus mounted on wheels ready for
action; and
Fig. 2 shows a side view of the apparatus detached from the carriage.
a is a tank which contains a solution of chreosote or other fluid destructive or
abhorrent to insects. is a pipe with or without a tap which conveys the liquid
to the perforated horizontal tube c. d is a horizontal bar to which is attached the
canvas or other cloth e, which hangs loosely from the said bar, and is sufficiently
long to reach the ground and trail behind, as the bar is drawn over the crop. The
bar d is supported by the stays ff, placed on either side of the tank, or connected
to the frame of the vehicle.
It will be seen that the horizontal bar d and trailing cloth e, is the essential part
of the invention, the other parts being accessories. The cloth e is saturated by
the solution from the tank which is conveyed to it by means of the horizontal
tube c.
The apparatus can be mounted on a light carriage and used separately as a special
implement, or can be attached to a horse-hoe water-cart or any other suitable
machine on wheels.
The mode of using the apparatus is easily understood. It is simply drawn over
the crop, while the fluid is allowed to saturate the cloth. The trailing cloth

page_text: dresses or brushes the leaves of the plants as it passes over them and while it
dislodges many of the insects and causes them to fall on the ground, it also prevents
their return by making the plant distasteful to them. When the insects are very
thick, the apparatus can be dragged a second time over the plant from the opposite
direction. It is found in practice that our apparatus clears the insects from the
underside of the leaves, in a way which no other contrivance has succeeded in
doing, and such is its efficiency that one apparatus will dress forty or fifty acres
per diem.
This rapidity of action is extremely important when large surfaces are
attacked by fly or bugs or other insect pests.
For certain kinds of crops and in certain cases it may be desirable to duplicate
or treble the working parts, that is the horizontal bar, tube and cloth, but unless
the crop is unusually heavy or the insects unusually numerous, we do not think this
will be necessary. In the event of this being done the second bar and cloth with
its feeding tube, will be arranged to follow the first at a suitable interval, and so on
with others.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:
1. An implement or apparatus for removing or destroying insects from growing
crops, containing one or more horizontal bars with trailing or hanging cloths, said
cloths being saturated with some suitable solution supplied thereto by a tube or
. tubes connected to a portable tank, as herein described and set forth.
2. In an apparatus or implement for removing or destroying insects from growing
crops, the combination of the tank a, pipes or tubes bc, horizontal bar d suspended
cloth or cloths e, with or without a carriage or vehicle for carrying the same, as
herein described and set forth.
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S. S. BROMHEAD,
97, Newgate Street, E.C., Patent Agent.