An Improved Portable or Stationary Machine for Smoking and Fumigating Hops, Trees, and all kinds of Vegetation.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Nov., 1893
Complete Specification Lelt, 24th Sept., 1894-Accepted, 27th Oct., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Portable or Stationary Machine for Smoking and
Fumigating Hops, Trees, and all kinds of Vegetation.
HENRY HATTON Tanner The Barton Tannery and Sunnyside Broomy Hill
Hereford, and THOMAS WILLIAM NAYLER Engineer Friars Street and Red
House Barton Street Hereford do hereby declare the nature of this invention 'to be
as follows:
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An improved portable or stationary machine consisting of a fire place for burning
any kind of fuel, both solid and liquid, having an outer air chamber, and fitted with
fans for discharging smoke, the said fans to be driven by suitable gearing fitted to
main axle or wheels or by hand power.
´Dated this First day of November 1893
HENRY HATTON.
THOMAS WILLIAM NAYLER.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION..
An Improved Portable or Stationary Machine for Smoking and
Fumigating Hops, Trees, and all kinds of Vegetation.
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We, HENRY HATTON, Tauner, The Barton Tannery and Sunnyside Broomy
Hill Hereford, and THOMAS WILLIAM NAYLER, Engineer, Friars Street and
Red House Barton Street, Hereford 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 relates to the manner in which we construct and arrange a machine
for smoking and fumigating hops, trees, and all kinds of vegetation for the purpose
of destroying insect and fungi life.
In order that our invention and the method of carrying the same into effect may
be the more readily understood we append hereunto two sheets of explanatory
drawings to be bereinafter referred to.
On Sheet 1, Figure 1 is an elevation, and Figure 2 a plan of one form of a
machine constructed in accordance with our invention, while Figure 3 represents
its application for the purpose of fumigating hops or like plants.
On Sheet 2 Figure 4 is an elevation and Figure 5 a plan representing a modified
form of our improved smoking and fumigating machine.
The same reference letters in the different views illustrate the same parts.
In the construction of our machine we mount the combined furnace and air
chamber A upon a suitable wheel frame or base having wheels and axle and shafts
such as illustrated. The fan B, represented by dotted lines in Figure 1, is driven
or revolved from the main axle by means of the spur or tooth gearing as shown,
and by a band or chain. Thus as the whole machine is drawn along by animal
or other power the fan B is revolved, and the smoke from the furnace A is
driven from the aperture D on to aud amongst the hops or other adjacent
vegetation.
In the modified form illustrated at Figures 4 and 5 Sheet 2 we adapt a simpler
method of mounting the furnace upon its wheeled axle, and provide a hopper E
having a hinged top or cover which we close when the machine is in operation, and
so obtain au automatic feed of fuel to the furnace.

page_text: We adapt our furnace for burning either solid or liquid fuel, and we vary the'
arrangement of our fan driving gear and modify the construction of our machine
to suit any special requirements.
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. The improvement in smoking and fumigating hops, trees, and all kinds of
vegetation by means of a machine or apparatus consisting of a suitably mounted
furnace burning either solid or liquid fuel, and having a discharging fan with driving
gear arranged substantially as.and for the purposes hereinbefore described and as
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
2. The construction of a machine for sinoking and fumigating hops and all
kinds of vegetation, having a suitable furnace for burning either solid or liquid
fuel mounted upon a carriage or a wheeled axle, with a smoke discharging fan
driven from the axle by suitable gearing substantially as and for the purposes
herein before described and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 22nd der of September 1894
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicants.