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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
JOHN T. CHANDLER, OF GRANBURY, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOSEPH L.
HARBER, OF GRANBURY, TEXAS.
INSECT-TRAP.Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Sept. 23,1913.
Application filed January 4, 1913. Serial No. 740,189.To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, JOHN T. CHANDLER,
a citizen of the United States, residing at
Granbury, in the county of Hood, State of
5 Texas, have invented certain new and useful
Improvements in Insect-Traps; and I do
hereby declare the following to be a full,
clear, and exact description of the inven-
tion, such as will enable others skilled in the
10 art to which it appertains to make and use
the same.
This invention relates to insect traps and
has for an object to provide an ant trap
having a novel housing adapted to be em-
15 bedded in the ground over the ant hill and
being of such shape as to concentrate the
entrapped ants at one end of the housing,
the trap having a normally closed sight
opening in the roof to facilitate proper ap-
20 plication of the housing to the ant hill.
A further object of the invention is to
provide an outlet pipe situated at the con-
stricted end of the housing and adapted to
conduct the ants to a bucket preferably con-
25 taining water for drowning the ants as they
drop from the pipe, there being a trans-
parent closure in the mouth of the bucket
receiving the pipe and permitting of the con-
tents of the bucket being viewed from above
30 from time to time as desired.
With the above objects in view the in-
vention consists of certain novel details of
construction and combination of parts here-
inafter fully described and claimed, it being
35 understood that various modifications may
be made in the minor details of construction
within the scope of the appended claim.
In the accompanying drawing forming
part of this specification :-Figure 1 is a
40 plan view of the trap. Fig. 2 is a longitu-
dinal sectional view through the trap ap-
plied to an ant hill.
Referring now to the drawing in which
like characters of reference designate simi-
45 lar parts, the trap is shown to comprise a
substantially triangular housing 10 com-
prising converging sides 11 connected at the
top edges by a cover 12 of triangular out-
line, and connected at the bottom edges by
50 a bottom 13 which is disposed parallel with
the top and is of triangular outline. A rear
wall 14 connects the rear edges of the sides,
the top and the bottom, the rear wall being
substantially oblong in outline and of the
55 same height as the sides. A circular open-ing 15 is formed in the center of the bottom,
and around the edges of this opening is
disposed a cylindrical flange 16 which is
fixed to the bottom face of the housing bot-
tonm 13 and extends downwardly below the 60
plane of the bottom edges of the sides 11
and end wall 14. A sight opening 17 is
formed in the top, this sight opening being
concentric with and of smaller diameter
than the above mentioned opening 15. A 65
circular cover 18 forms a closure for this
opening, the cover being provided with a
pivot pin 19 which extends through the top
12 and permits of the cover being swung
back as shown in Fig. 1 to expose the sight 70
opening.
The housing above described is designed
to rest on the ground with the cylindrical
flange 16 inclosing the ant hill. By virtue
of the sight opening 17 in the top of the 75
housing the opening 15 in the bottom of
the housing may be exposed so that proper
positioning of the housing upon the ant hill
will be facilitated. By virtue of the trian-
gular shape of the housing the ants will be 80
directed toward and concentrated at the
apex or contracted end of the housing.
For exterminating the entrapped ants, a
bucket 20 is designed to be nearly filled with
water and embedded in the ground outside 85
of and in close proximity to the apex of
the housing. An elbow pipe 21 connects the
housing with the bucket, one leg 22 of the
pipe extending horizontally and entering
the apex of the housing at the bottom 13 90
as shown in Fig. 2, and the other leg 23 of
the pipe projecting through the center of a
glass closure 24 disposed in the mouth of
the bucket. The ants escape from the hous-
ing through the elbow pipe and drop there- 95
from into the water in the bucket and are
drowned. The interior of the bucket may
be occasionally viewed through the glass
closure 24 for the purpose of determining
when sufficient ants have accumulated in the 100
bucket to warrant removal of the bucket for
cleaning.
What is claimed, is:-
In an insect trap, a substantially trian-
gular housing including converging sides, 105
a triangular top connecting the top edges
of said sides, a triangular bottom parallel
with said top and connecting said sides in-
termediate the top and bottom edges of the
latter, an end wall connecting the rear edges 1101,073,793.
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Chandler, John T. & Harber, Joseph L. Insect-Trap., patent, September 23, 1913; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth853954/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.