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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICES
MATHEW KELL, OF GRANBURY, TEXAS.
ANT-TRAP.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 379,581, dated March 20, 1888.
Application filed January 3, 1888. Serial No. 59,.631. (No model.)
To a7Z whon it inacy concern: outer side at a suitable point. Through this
Be it known that I, MATHEW KELL, a citi- tube the kerosene or other material to kill the 35
zen of the United States, residing at Granbury, ants is poured.
in the county of Hood and State of Texas, have D is a conical cover of slightly-larger diane-
5 invented a new and useful Improvement in ter than the mouth of the chamber and stand-
Traps, of which thefollowing is a specification. ing over the same, so as to protect it from rain
The invention relates to improvements in and from heat at noon. The said cover has to
ant-traps, the object being to permit the ants the inclined outstanding elastic arms d secured
tofall into a suitable hollow vessel, from which to its under surface near its rim, which arms
Io they cannot escape, and where they can be pass through the loops or staples d' on the
quickly killed by pouring in kerosene-oil or outerside of the vessel A, and retain the cover
other destroying material; and it consists in the proper distance thereabove. The cover, 45
the construction and novel combination of being conical, sheds the rain and protects the
parts hereinafter described, and pointed out in trap from the direct rays of the sun.
15 the appended claim. The device is seton the ground, as described,
In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective in the path of the ants, so that numbers fall
view of the device removed from the earth. therein. 50
Fig. 2 is a central vertical section of the same Having described my invention, I claim-
embedded in the earth, with the edges of its The combination, with the annular vessel A,
20 chamber flush therewith. having the flat floor and the sides, of equal
Referring to the drawings by letter, A desig- height and converging upward, and provided
nates an annular vessel, preferably of metal, on its outer sides with the loops or staples d', 55
having the floor a and the inner and outer of the conical cover D, of greater diameter
sides, a' a', respectively, which converge up- than the mouth of said vessel and provided
25 ward from the base a, and have the annular with the outstanding elastic legs d, substan-
mouth a4 between their upper edges, which are tially as specified.
of equal height, and, when the parts are in po- In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my 6o
sition, are flush with the surface of the earth. own I have hereto affixed my signature in pres-
An annular chamber, B, is thus formed having ence of two witnesses.
30 a flat floor and upwardly-converging sides, MATHEW HELL.
which, being smooth, cannot be climbed by Witnesses:
the ants that have fallen in the chamber. M. H. HANLEY,
C is a vertical tube opening through the I J. H. HINERI.
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Kell, Mathew. Ant-Trap., patent, March 20, 1888; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth171726/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.