An Improved Powder Distributor for Gardening Purposes.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 24th May, 1825
Complete Specification Left, 19th Feb., 1896-Accepted, 23rd May, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Powder Distributor for Gardening Purposes.
I, THOMAS EDWARD WATSON of Laughton in the County of Sussex Architect
and Surveyor do hereby declare the nature of the said invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object an improved insect powder distributor for
gardening purposes whereby seedlings and other plants singly or in drills may be
surrounded by powdered manure soot or other desired substance without dusting
the same on the plant itself, thereby causing injury to such plant and sometimes
their total destruction, by the use of my invention this injury is entirely
obviated.
According to this invention I construct a vessel or container of suitable size,
shape and material, the bottom of which is hollow or has a conical or tapered recess
extending a distance up the inside of the vessel and on the outside of this conical
recess I perforate the bottoin of the vessel with holes of any desired shape and size
such holes may be open. Or an inner vessel or lining capable of being rotated and
correspondingly perforated may be formed so that such holes may be covered over
when not in use, or partly so when it is desired to distribute a very small quantity
only of insect or other powder.
The vessel is provided with a lid and suitable handles.
It will be seen that by the use of a distributor constructed as above described
that a ring of soot powdered manure or other substance may be formed around a
seedling or plant or it may be distributed along each side of a drill of seedlings or
plants such as peas carrots &c. in any desired quantity without dusting the powder
on the plant itself. The seedling or plant being covered or enclosed by the recessed
bottom of the vessel or container.
Dated this 22nd dev of Men 1905
An Improved Powder Distributor for Gardening Purposes.
THOMAS EDWARD WATSON of Laughton in the County of Sussex Architect
and Surveyor, 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 :-
Tbat seedlings in rows and single plants can be surrounded by powdered manures
of any description without dusting or damaging the plants. The vessels or
containers are of varying size and shape, either circular or rectangular, with hollow,
tapered or conical bottoms A perforated with holes B and may have slides and
discs perforated to correspond, so that the holes may be covered when not in use,
or partly so when it is desired to distribute a small quantity of powder only. By
the use of them a ring or row of manure or other substance may be placed around
or along seedlings or plants in any desired quantity. The plants being protected
by the recessed bottoms of the vessels. The vessels are intended to be made in tin,
galvanized iron or other metal.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare what I
claim is :
The perforated conical, hollow, or tapered bottoms marked A and B which may
be used either with or without hit and miss discs and slides.
Dated this 18th day of February 1896.
T. E. WATSON,
Laughton, Short Gate, Sussex.