Means for the Destruction of Noxious Vegetation in Garden and other Paths, Roads, and Ways, partly Applicable for other like Uses.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Aug., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 5th May, 1891-Accepted, 6th June, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Means for the Destruction of Noxious Vegetation in Garden and
other Paths, Roads, and Ways, partly Applicable for other like
Uses.
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I, EUGENE RODARY, of the Château de Montjeu by Autun (Saone et Loire)
France, Steward do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to means for use in killing weeds and other vegetation
disfiguring the appearance of walks and alleys in gardens and parks and which
may also be employed in the case of roads and ways generally, including railways.
The invention consists in the employment, for this purpose, by preference, of
pure flowers of sulphur or sulphur mixed with charcoal in any suitable proportions.
The proportion of charcoal inay be from 1% upwards, a mixture in this propor-
tion giving good results in practice. The charcoal employed may either consist
of powdered wood charcoal or any other vegetable or animal charcoal such as
lamp-black, bone black, etc., and the mixture of the sulphur and carbon may be
effected in any suitable manner. The sulphur, whether pure or mixed with carbon
as described, when spread over the paths or roads in the proportion of about
200 grammes per square metre, will effectually and without any labor destroy
all noxious vegetation growing thereon as well as earth worms insects and other
animal life present in the soil; the paths, etc., also acquire a remarkable degree
of hardness.
The sulphur may be distributed by hand, but it is preferred to employ for the
purpose the arrangement of spreader hereinafter described, which is readily
convertible into an ordinary wheel-barrow and can also be used for distributing
other pulverulent matters, such as manures, the apparatus being so arranged that
the distributing device only acts when the vehicle is in motion.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of the
Specification, Figure 1 of which represent a side elevation Figure 2 a plan,
with the hopper removed, and Figure 3 a longitudinal central section of the
distributor.
aa-are the side bars of the wheel barrow between which is mounted a grooved
or fluted distributing drum 6 of wood or metal mounted upon the wheel axle with
which it revolves together with the wheels. The drum brotates in a space d
between the cross-frames and the powder contained in the hopper is supplied to the
drum in a uniform manner by simply tilting the barrow while wheeling it. The
distributor will act equally well whether the barrow be moved in one or the other
direction.
The hopper is provided with a sliding bottom e, made preferably of sheet iron,
which is adjusted to regulate the supply of the powder thereto, by means of a
hand.screw working in a bearing g forming a nut for the screw which is carried
by, but free to turn in, a cross-bar to which the sliding bottom e is attached.
By.sliding the bottom e forward, by means of the screw, so as to completely
close the passage to the drum, the distributor can be used as an ordinary wheel-
barrow.
The vehicle may be drawn either by manual or animal power, according to the
size of apparatus required.
Dated this 5th day of August 1890.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Means for the Destruction of Noxious Vegetation in Garden and
other Paths, Roads, and Ways, partly Applicable for other like
Uses.
I, EUGENE RODARY, of the Château de Montjeu by Autun (Saône et Loire)
France, Steward, 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:-
My invention relates to means for use in killing weeds and other vegetation
disfiguring the appearance of walks and alleys in gardens and parks, and which
may also be employed in the case of roads and ways generally, including railways.
The invention consists in the employment for this purpose, by preference, of
pure flowers of sulphur or sulphur mixed with charcoal in any suitable proportions.
The proportion of charcoal may be from 1% upwards, a mixture in this propor-
tion giving good results in practice. The charcoal employed may either consist of
powdered wood charcoal or any other vegetable or animal charcoal, such as lamp-
black, bone-black, etc., and the mixture of the sulphur and carbon may be effected in
any suitable manner. The sulphur, whether pure or mixed with carbon as described,
when spread over the paths, or roads in the proportion of about 200 grammes per
square metre, will effectually, and without labor, destroy all noxious vegetation
growing thereon as well as earth worms, insects, and other animal life present in
the soil; the paths, etc., also acquire a remarkable degree of hardness.
The sulphur may be distributed by hand but it is preferred to employ for the
purpose, the arrangement of spreader hereinafter described which is readily
convertible into an ordinary wheel barrow and can also be used for distributing
other pulverulent matters, such as manures, the apparatus being so arranged that
the distributing device only acts when the vehicle is in motion.
Reference is to be had to the drawing left with my Provisional Specification
and also to the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 of which represents a side elevation,
Figure 2 a plan, with the hopper removed, and Figure 3 a longitudinal central
section of the distributor. Figure 4 shews a perspective view of a skeleton drum,
and Figure 5 shews a cross section of the same and of the delivery regulating
devices drawn on a larger scale.
a a are the side bars of the wheel-barrow between which is mounted a grooved
or fluted distributing drum b, of wood or metal mounted upon the wheel axle with
which it revolves together with the wheels. The drum brotates in a space d
between the cross-frames and the powder contained in the hopper is supplied to
the drum in a uniform manner, by simply tilting the barrow while wheeling it.
The distributor will act equally well whether the barrow be moved in one or the
other direction. The hopper is provided with a sliding bottom e, made preferably
of sheet iron, which is adjusted to regulate the supply of the powder to the drum
by means of a hand-screw working in a bearing g forming a nut for the screw
which is carried by, but free to turn in, a cross-bar h to which the sliding bottom e
is attached. By sliding the bottom e forward, by means of the screw, so as to
completely close the passage to the drum, the distributor can be used as an ordinary
wheel-barrow.
I may substitute for the fluted drum a skeleton drum and delivery-regulating
devices, as shewn in Figures 4 and 5 in which A A is one of the side bars, and B B
the cross-bars, of the wheel-barrow. The skeleton drum which is fixed on the
wheel axle F as before, is constructed of, two end discs E E between which are
fixed bars G G, four being shewn although this number may be increased to eight
for drums of large dimensions. It is enclosed in a chamber D as before, having a
bottom C provided with a central longitudinal gap regulated by a pair of angle
iron plates H¹ H2, the one H₁ being fixed and the other H³ capable of adjustment

page_text: by means of screws I and wing nuts one at each end of the plate, for the
purpose of regulating the width of the gap L at which the powder is delivered.
JK are the end frames and N the sliding bottom of the barrow for closing the
passage to the drum as before. In this arrangement, the skeleton form of the drum
permits an easier flow of the matters to the delivery aperture and breaks up any
lumps which cannot readily pass.
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
1st. The employment of flowers of sulphur, cither alone or mixed with charcoal,
for destroying noxious vegetation, earth-worms, insects, and other animal life, in
garden and other paths, roads, and ways generally, substantially as hereinbefore
described.
2nd. The distributor consisting of a hopper mounted on wheels, a distributing
drum fast on the wheel axle revolving in a chamber in the bottom of the hopper
and having a screw-operated sliding bottom for closing the delivery aperture,
substantially as described and illustrated in Figures 1, 2, and 3, of the drawings.
3rd. The distributor consisting of a hopper mounted on wheels, a distributing
drum fast on the wheel axle revolving in a chamber in the bottom of the hopper,
the said chamber being provided with adjustable delivery regulating devices,
substantially as described and illustrated in Figures 4 and 5 of the drawings.
E. RODARY.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Patent Agents.