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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE
ICHARLEY L. FERRIOTT, OF BARTLETT, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO
JULIUS DODT, OF BARTLETT, TEXAS.
INSECT-COLLECTING MACHINE.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 733,020, dated July 7, 1903.
* Application filed March 31, 1902. Serial No.. 100,845. (No model,)To all whom it may concern:
Beit known that I, CHARLEY Lt FERRIOTT, a
citizen of the United States, residing at Bart-
lett, in the county of Willianson and State of
5 Texas, have invented a new and useful Insect-
Collecting Machine, of which the following is:
a specification.
This invention relates to a novel machine
for collecting the cotton-boll weevil and other
1o insects from growing plants and .from the
ground adjacent thereto.
The object of the invention is to produce
a machine designed to be propelled by draft-
animals and equipped with suction apparatus.
15 operated by the movement of the machine to
collect the insects and infected plant forms
or squares, which after separation from the
dust and dirt drawn up by the machine are
discharged into a sack or the like preliminary.
20. to the destruction of the insects and infected.
vegetation.
Another object of the invention is to equip
an apparatus of'the.character specified with
a series of suction-tubes, certain of which are
2 arranged to yield laterally against the re-
sistance of adjustable gage-rods, which main-
tain the suction-tubes in close contiguity to
the opposite sides of a row of plants.
A further object of the invention is to pro-
3o vide a separating-chamber within which the
separation of the dust and dirt from the in-
sects and injured forms is effected prior to
the delivery of the latter to the sack.
Subordinate to these several objects are
35 others, which will hereinafter more fully ap-
pear as the necessity for their accomplish-
ment is developed in the succeeding descrip-
tion of that form: of my invention which-for
the purposes of this disclosure I have illus-
4o trated in the accompanying drawings.
In said drawings, Figure 1.is aside eleva-
tion of -my machine with one wheel removed..
Fig. 2 is a rear elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is
a central longitudinal sectional view of the
45 machine. Fig. 4 is a sectional view through.
thesuction-chamber and the side tubes. Fig.
5 is a detail perspective view of the separat-
ing device located within the separating-
chamber, and Fig. 6 is a detail view of one
50 of the gage-rods.
Like numerals of reference are employedto designate corresponding parts throughout
the views.
The frame of the machine (indicated by the
numeral 1) is carried primarily by the axle 2 55
of the carrying-wheels 3. This frame may
obviously be of any desired form, but prefer-
ably . comprises, as shown, the upper and
lower side beams 4 and 5, spaced apart by the
vertical posts 6 and transverse frame-bars 7, 6o
.upon'one of which- the driver's seat 8 is sup-
ported, as shown. The rear end of the frame,
the axle 2 being somewhat nearer the front
end thereof, is additionally supported by
swiveled caster-wheels 8", located at the lower 65
ends of pendent supports 8b, secured to the
frame.
The draft appliances 9 are connected to the
lower beams of the frame, at the front ends
thereof, in order to permit the machine to be 70
drawn over the ground by draft-animals in an
obvious manner. At the rear end of the
frame is supported a fan-casing 10, bolted or
otherwise secured to a pair of the transverse
bars 7, and within this'casing is mounted to 75
=rotate a fan 11, the shaft 12 of which is pro-
vided with bearings in a bearing-arm 13, ex-
tending from the side of the casing. The fan
11 may be driven. by the application of power
in a variety of ways; but since it is preferable So
to operate the fan by the traction of the ma-
,hine I employ a train of gearing between the
axle 2 and the shaft 12. This gearing com-
irises a gear-wheel 14, mounted on the axle
and meshing with a pinion 15, keyed upon 85
a shaft 16, supported in suitable. bearings
mounted on the side beams 5. The shaft 16 is
provided in turn with a comparatively large
sprocket --wheel 17, geared by means of a
sprocket-chain 18 to a comparatively small 90
sprocket-wheel 19, keyed upon a shaft 20, car-
rying a large belt-wheel 21 and journaled in
bearings mounted upon the upper beams 4 of
the frame. The belt - wheel 21 is in turn
belted by a belt 22 to -a belt-pulley 23, fixed 95
upon the shaft 12. By means of this train of
multiplying gearing the fan is rotated at a
high rate of speed as the machine is drawn
over the ground.
The inlet-opening at the side of the fan- ic o
casing is in communication'with the upper
end of a suction-tube 24, leading upwardlyNo. 733;020:
Patented July 7, 190$.
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Ferriott, Charley L. Insect-Collecting Machine., patent, July 7, 1903; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth509683/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.