An Improved Fly-catching Apparatus.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Feb., 1899 -Accepted, 25th Mar., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Fly-catching Apparatus.
I, FELIX EMIL ARTHUR HERZOG, of Weidenbrunner Thor, Schmalkalden,
Prussia, Merchant, 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:-
The present invention concerns a fly-catching apparatus which is chiefly
intended to replace papers, sticks, or the like, coated with glue, as these are
expensive and cumbersome and more particularly on account of their appearance,
are objectionable in private apartments as well as in business establishments.
The fly-catching apparatus is illustrated in the annexed drawings, Fig. 1 being
a front view.
Fig. 2, a side view, and
Fig. 3, a detail drawing.
As will be seen from these sketches, the apparatus consists of a stand 1, which
may be ornamented in any desired style and which carries, at 2, a reel 3, which
can be easily exchanged and readily turned, and on which a flexible band 4,
preferably of oiled waxed paper, which will take fly-glue well, is wound.
This band 4, is passed through a fly-glue vessel 7, which is arranged at the foot
of the stand 5, so that it can be easily removed, and which is closed by a lid 6,
the band 4, being carried into the vessel 7, through a slot 8, passed over a little
horizontal pin 9, arranged near the bottom of the vessel, and wound round two
more pins, arranged higher up, 10 and 11, whereupon it passes through a slot 12,
in the lid 6, to the outside. A suitable clip 13, is attached to the exposed end, and
the band 4, thus coated with glue is suspended by means of the eye 14, of the
clip, at the upper end of stand 1, on a hook 15. As the reel 13 as well as the guides
in the glue vessel 7, offer a certain resistance the band 4, will be stretched taut
between its point of suspension and the glue vessel 7.
The flies will adhere both to the front and back of the band coated with glue.
When the coated part 16, of the band is thickly covered with flies the strip 16,
should be cut off a little above slot 12, in the lid of the glue receptacle 6, the
clip 13 should be opened and fixed to the end of the band projecting from the glue
veszel 7.
The band should then be drawn upwards again by means of the clip 13, which
should then be suspended as already described on hook 15.
In this way new strips of glued band can always be suspended in the apparatus,
and the fly-catching apparatus just described, moreover, has the advantage of
a pretty and ornamental appearance, so that it is an ornament rather than a
disfigurement to the room. The glue vessel 7, may be covered by some ornamenta-
tion.
While the lower pin 9, arranged in the glue vessel serves, so to speak, as a
guide for the band 4, when drawn upwards, the object of the upper pins or
rods 10 and 11 is to uniformly distribute the glue adhering to band 4, on both
sides of the band, and to prevent excessively thick coating with glue.
As shown in detail in Fig. 3, the clip 13, may consist of two strips of metal

page_text: plate a and b hinged to each other and having some clutch-points c stamped into
them, or else of a bent strip of metal plate with catch-teeth at the ends.
Needless to say, any other suitable clip arrangement may be applied.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is;-
A fly-catching apparatus, characterised by a band 4, of some flexible material
which will well take fly-glue, which can be unwound from a reel 3, and which is
carried through a glue vessel 7 so as to be uniformly coated with glue, and tensely
stretched and fixed at its exposed end, by means of a suitable clip 13, to the upper
end of a stand 1, carrying the reel 3, and the glue vessel 7, the coated part of
the band, after having served its purpose, being cut off a little above the glue
vessel and replaced by simply re-attaching the clip 13 (after taking it off the
used end) to the end of the band projecting from the glue vessel, and pulling
the latter upwards and again suspending it as before.
Dated this 15th day of February 1899.
J. E. EVANS-JACKSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.