US Patent: 5,535X
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| Apparatus for the Purpose of Preventing Bed Bugs From Ascending the Posts of Bedsteads, Denominated the Night Angels
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Patentee:
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| James A. Clark (Cook) (exact or similar names) - Georgetown, DC |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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Jun. 13, 1829 |
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Joel Havens
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| Most of the patents prior to 1836 were lost in the Dec. 1836 fire. Only about 2,000 of the almost 10,000 documents were recovered. Little is known about this patent. There are no patent drawings available. This patent is in the database for reference only.
For a method of Preventing Bed-bugs from Ascending the Posts of Bedsteads; James Alexander Cook, Georgetown, D. C., June 13.
A cup and socket of tin is to be placed under each post. This cup and socket is in the form of a flat candlestick, the socket part being sufficiently large to admit the post of the bedstead, and the dish part surrounding the socket, serving to contain, oil, water, or other fluid, over which the vermin cannot pass. A cap like the nozzle of a candlestick, with a rim sufficiently wide to extend over the cup containing the liquid, and prevent the falling of dust into it, is fitted to the top of the socket, or on to the leg of the bedstead. The bedstead must be removed from the wall, and the clothes prevented from touching the floor, when the cups are used.
The claim is to the inner socket, and to the cup. The patentee calls his dishes and caps Night Angels. A name given, we presume, because they are to keep guard at the four corners of his bed, and prevent the approach of the Imps of Satan. The best defense against these nocturnal tormentors, is cleanliness, and those who lack the industry necessary for their destruction, will, we are apprehensive, call in vain, either upon Hercules or Mr. Cook's Night Angels,' to protect them from the fangs of these disturbers of their repose.
The effect to be produced by these Night Angels, we have repeatedly attained by a magic circle, around the lower end of each bed post. This circle was merely a line made with chalk, over which the legion cannot pass. The loose particles upon which they tread, giving way beneath their feet, and precipitating them to the lower regions.”
Journal of the Franklin Institute Vol. 6, Sept. 1829 pg. 187
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