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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
SAMUEL H. MARTIN, OF BRADY, TEXAS;
INSECT OR WORM DESTROYER.Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented July 29,1913.
Application filed April 11, 1912. Serial No. 689,964.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, SAMUEL H. MARTIN,
a citizen of the United States, residing at
Brady, in the county of McCulloch and
5 State of Texas, have invented certain new
and useful Improvements in insect or Worm
Destroyers, of which the following is a
specification.
This invention relates to insect or worm
10 destroyers, and is designed particularly to
construct a device of this nature wherein
a plurality thereof may be secured to the
frame of a gang or sulky cultivator and
operate upon rows of plants for the pur-
15 pose of killing the boll weevil and other
insects.
It has for its object to combine the oper-
ation of cultivating the soil and destroying
or exterminating the insects, worms, etc.,
20 from the plants, which has heretofore ne-
cessitated the use of two operations and
machines.
With the above and other objects in view,
my invention consists in the construction,
25 combination, and arrangement of parts, all
as will hereinafter be more fully described,
illustrated and claimed, wherein :-
Figure 1 is a front elevation of a plural-
ity of exterminators forming the subject
30 matter of the present invention illustrating
the cooperation thereof with the rows of
plants, the connections between said ex-
terminator, and the gang cultivator shown
in section. Fig. 2 is a top plan view
35 thereof. Fig. 3 is a vertical section taken
along line 3-3 of Fig. 2.
The insect exterminator or destroyer
which is adapted to operate between the
rows of plants, comprises a receptacle or
40 furnace which constitutes a fire box, being
rectangular in cross-section and having an
upwardly curved flange formed about the
longitudinal sides thereof, and the forward
end thereof. The bottom of the receptacle
45 is pierced by the plurality of openings,
through which the ashes and debris of the
fire within said receptacle is ejected. The
upper portion of the receptacle is provided
with a truncated, pyramidoidal cover which
50 cooperates with a tubular stack for the pur-
pose of emitting smoke, etc. The forward
side of the receptacle or furnace is pro-
vided with a loop whereby the same may be
attached to the cultivator.
55 Reference being had more particularly tothe drawings, 10 indicates a rectangular re-
ceptacle or furnace provided along the bot-
tom with an upwardly curved flange 11
upon the two longitudinal sides thereof,
and the forward end of said furnace, con- 60
stituting a groove or channel 12 about three
sides of the receptacle. The bottom of the
receptacle or furnace 10 is pierced by a plu-
rality of openings 13, which are slightly
elevated above the. surface of the ground, 65
by reason of the fact that the lower ends
of the flanges 11 extend under the bottom of
the receptacle and operate somewhat after
the manner of runners. These openings 13
provide a means whereby the ashes and 70
other debris of the fire located within the
receptacle or furnace may be ejected there-
from. The forward side of the receptacle or
furnace 10 is provided with the rectangular
draft opening 14 whereby sufficient draft is 75
provided to insure thorough ignition of the
fuel within the receptacle of furnace 10.
The upper edge of the receptacle 14 is pro-
vided with a truncated, pyramidoidal cover
15 which opens into a tubular stack 16 by 80
means of which the smoke created by the
ignition of the fuel within the receptacle or
furnace 10 may be emitted from the exter-
minator.
A loop wire or draft device 17 has its 85
terminals secured under the forward flange
11 and is provided with an eye 18 by means
of which the connection 19 is secured to the
exterminator.
A number of the exterminators and de- 90
stroyers, heretofore described are secured by
the connections 19 to a gang plow or culti-
vator and operate between the rows of plants
or cotton as illustrated in Fig. 1 at the rear
of the cultivator. The heat from the fire 95
within the furnaces causes the boll weevils
or insects to drop from the leaves of the
plants and be utterly destroyed. The ma-
jor portion of the worms or insects are re-
ceived in the channel or groove 12 as they 100
drop from the plants, etc.
Having thus fully described my inven-
tion, what I claim as new and wish to secure
by U. S. Letters Patent, is:-
An insect exterminator comprising a rec- 105
tangular receptacle provided with a perfo-
rated bottom adapted to be drawn in slidable
contact with the ground, a flange extending
around three sides of the bottom of said
receptacle and curved outwardly and up- a 91,068,685.
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Martin, Samuel H. Insect or Worm Destroyer., patent, July 29, 1913; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth853755/m1/2/: accessed July 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.