IMPROVED MEANS AND APPARATUS FOR DESTROYING INSECTS ON PLANTS, SURUBS, AND TREES
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Crees Taylor, of Liverpool, in the County-of-
Lancaster, Engineer, for the-Invention of "IMPROVED MEANS AND APPARATUS
FOR DESTROYING INSECTS ON PLANTS, SURUBS, AND TREES."
Sealed the 17th January 1879, and dated the 18th July 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Crees Taylor at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 18th July 1878.
WILLIAM CREES TAYLOR, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Engineer.
"IMPROVED MEANS AND APPARATUS FOR DESTROYING INSECTS ON PLANTS, SHRUBS,
AND TREES."
This Invention consists essentially in providing portable apparatus for surrounding
and enclosing a plant, shrub, tree, or the like, and in charging the enclosed space
with smoke or fumes of such a nature as to destroy insect life.
In carrying the Invention into practice under one modification, I place a wood
or metal framing supported on a stem or supports resting on or in the ground over
the plant, shrub, tree, or the like to be fumigated, and surround the said frame-
work so as to enclose the said plant, shrub, tree, or the like, with woven or flexible
material, sufficiently impervious to smoke or fumes to prevent its escape. .The
smoke or fumes which may be obtained by burning tobacco leaf, paper, or other
suitable material is blown into the enclosed space through an opening or way left
or provided for that purpose in the covering material.
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The wood or metal framing is; by preference, hinged or jointed so as to be
expanded to suit various sizes of plants, shrubs, trees, or the like, and collapsed or
folded for convenience in stowage or carriage.
The apparatus for blowing or forcing smoke or fumes into the enclosed space
may consist of a fan and nozzle or like appliance attached to or connected with a
container, generator, or combustion chamber.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said William Crees Taylor in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 18th
January 1879.
WILLIAM CREES TAYLOR, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Engineer.
"IMPROVED MEANS AND APPARATUS FOR DESTROYING INSECTS ON PLANTS, SHRUBS,
AND TREES."
This Invention consists essentially in providing portable apparatus for surrounding
and enclosing a plant, shrub, tree, or the like, and in charging the enclosed space
with smoke or fumes of such a nature as to destroy insect life.
In carrying the Invention into practice under one modification, I place a wood
or metal framing supported on a stem or supports resting on or in the ground over
the plant, shrub, tree, or the like to be fumigated, and I surround the said frame-
work so as to enclose the said plant, shrub, tree, or the like, with woven or flexible
material sufficiently impervious to smoke or fumes to prevent its escape. The
smoke or fumes, which may be obtained by burning tobacco leaf, paper, or other
suitable material, is blown into the enclosed space through an opening or way left
or provided for that purpose in the covering material.
The wood or metal framing is, by preference, hinged or jointed so as to be expanded
to suit various sizes of plants, shrubs, trees, or the like, and collapsed or folded for
convenience in stowage or carriage.
The apparatus for blowing or forcing smoke or fumes into the enclosed space
may consist of a fan and nozzle or like appliance attached to or connected with a
container, generator, or combustion chamber.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 is a view illustrative of a simple way of carrying my Invention into
practice.
1 is a metal framework affixed to the standard 2, which is supported by the
prongs 3 driven into the ground 4; 5 is the plant or tree to be fumigated; 6 is
the covering of flexible impervious material; 7 is a fan having its nozzle inserted
through the opening 8 in the cover 6. On causing the fan to revolve, vapour or
smoke is sucked up the pipe 9 and injected into the interior of the covering 6
around the plant or tree 5, so as to kill any insects which may be on the said plant
or tree. The smoke or fumes which pass through the fan may be generated in any
desired receptacle.
Fig. 2 illustrates more elaborate apparatus under my Invention than that
described under Fig. 1.
1, framework; 2, standard; 5, plant; 6, covering; 7, bellows, a fan may be
used; 10, stand for supporting bellows; 11, suction pipe leading to the generator 12.
The generator 12 is divided into 3 chambers 13, 14, 15. The top chamber 13
contains the substance which is to be vapourized or volatilized, such as sulphur. The
bottom chamber 15 contains the heating apparatus, which may consist of a lamp 16,
and the central chamber contains water or other liquid, which prevents too great
a heat being communicated to the substance which is to be vapourized or volatilized.
17 is a chamber attached to the delivery pipe, in which tobacco or other material
or substance may be burned; 18 is a coil which acts as a cooler for the vapour or
smoke passing into the space enclosed by the covering. 6.
The framework may, if desired, be hinged or jointed together so as to be capable
of expansion or contraction similar to an umbrella, in order to allow of the one
apparatus serving for several sizes of plants, shrubs, or trees.

page_text: Having now described the nature of the said Invention in such manner that
others will be enabled to carry my improvements into effect, I claim, the improve-
ments in means and apparatus for destroying insects on plants, substantially as set
forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Crees Taylor, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine.
WILLIAM CREES TAYLOR. (L.S.)