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, WILLIAM RENA'I‘US KLECKNER, or COWELL,
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' BACTERIA A‘ND FUNGI EXTERMINATOR.
Speci?cation of Letters Patent.
Patented May 22, 191i "3’.
Application ?led September 6, 1916. Serial No. 118,650.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, WILLIAM R. _KLECK
NER,
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anid. This mixture is inoculated into the
tree by mjection by means of a suitable in
Cowell, in the county of Contra strument.
United States, and a
Costa and State of California, ‘have invented
urotropin and ammonium cyanid and, there
fore, will liberate the
and exact description.
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y "invention relates to a bacteria and ‘ the tissue of the plant.
-A ter the
fungi exterminator intended for injection by mixture
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plant hasbeen treated with the
inoculation into plants, particularly trees, chemical above stated, it is inoculated with a
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mixture, also by injection, as fol
and fungicidal diseases. The object thereof lows: a. number of triphenylmethane dyes
_ shrubs and vines, for exterminating bacterial
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is to provide effective agents for the ex
termination of bacteria and fungi.
It must e understood that all the chemi
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for the extermina
and a potassium. xanthate. The dy'es used
are preferably methylene blue, methyl violet,
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and malachite green. The mixture is formed
of equal quantities of each of the ingredients‘
forming it, that is, there is 25% of potas
sium Xanthate, 25% of malachite green, 25%
of methyl violet, and 25% of methylene blue.
he last treatment is also by inoculation
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with a mixture formed of the following in
gredients: extracts of rhubarb, cinnamon,
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‘ allspice and cloves mixed‘ with oxalic acid
and gelatin. The above mixture is made as
In the treatment of plants affected with ollows: Cinnamon, cloves, allspice and rhu
bacteria and fungi, it becomes necessary to barb root in equal parts by weight in pow
inject into the plant various doses of chemi dered form are digested with a minimum
cals, all of_which are materially different.
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water and ?ltered,‘allow
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an abatement of reactions preparatory to the
plant While in the liquid
successive or following treatment.
state; or, if dried, it may be cut into pellets
it ?rst becomes necessary and administered by means of a suitable de
to prepare the tissue of the plant for the re vice for absorption by the plant. The ex
ception of the speci?c bactericides and fungi tracts used constitute 60% of the mixture,
cides. The ?rst treatment therefore is to the oxalic acid 20%, and the gelatin 20%.
invigorate the tissue, and the chemicals used The gelatin is simply a vehicle for the ex
are mixtures of double salts of potassium
tracts and the oxallc acid.
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Therelative proportions of the total 1n
cyanid, which are preferably the following
and in the following proportions: Equal gredients applied to a tree in the solid form
quantities of potassium ferrocyanid, potas or in solution are not to exceed one gram
4~ sium ferricyanid and potassium sulfocyanid per inch of the diameter of the tree at each
(also known under the name of thiocyanate), ' period of treatment, that is, if a "tree is four
are mixed and the plant is inoculated with inches in diameter, ‘at the third treatment
the above mixture. After the plant has been not over four grams of this mixture, in pro
substantially as speci?ed, should be
stimulated, the activity of the‘ vegetable portions into
the tree.
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enzyms or soluble ferments and toxins, injected
I claim:
which is caused by the parasitic intrusion, is
checked by the following mixture of chemi
1. A bacteria and fungi exterminator,
cals: urotropin (the chemical name of which consisting of a mixture of equal quantities
is hexamethylenetetramin) and ammonium of double salts of potassium cyanid; a mix—
cyanid in the following proportions,—60% ture of ingredients adapted to liberate for
of urotropin and 40% of ammonium cy
maldehyde when injected into a plant; a
mixture of triphenylmethane dyes and po
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tassium xanthate in proportions as speci
oxalic acid, and gelatin
spices,
tions substantially as speci?ed.
in propor- '
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‘5. A bacteria and fungi exterminator,
?ed; and a mixture of extracts of ?avoring
spices, oxalic acid, and gelatin in' propor— consisting‘of a mixture of equal quantities 40
of double salts of potassium cyanid; a mix
tions substantially as speci?ed.
2. A bacteria and fungi exterminator, ture adapted to liberate formaldehyde when
consisting of a mixture of equal quantities injected into a plant; a mixture in equa
of potassium ferrocyanid, potassium ferri
cyanid and potassium sulfocyanid; a mix
ture of ingredients adapted to liberate for
proportions of methylene blue, methyl vio
let, malachite green, and potassium xan
thate; and a mixture of the extracts of 45
maldehyde when injected into the plant in ?avoring spices, oxalic acid, and gelatin in
proportions substantially as speci?ed; a proportions substantially as speci?ed.
6. A bacteria and fungi exterminator,
mixture of triphenylmethane dyes and po
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- tassium xanthate in proportions as speci
?ed; and a mixture of extracts of ?avoring
consisting of a mixture of equal quantities
of double salts of potassium cyanid; a mix
spices,‘ oxalic acid, and gelatin in propor
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ture of ingredients in proportions speci?ed
adapted to liberate formaldehyde when in
3. A bacteria and fungi exterminator, iected into a plant; a mixture of triphenyl
consisting of a mixture of equal quantities methane dyes and potassium-xanthate in the
tions substantially as speci?ed.
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25
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of potassium ferrocyanid, potassium ferri
proportions speci?ed; and a mixture of ex
thate in proportions as speci?ed; and a mix
consisting of a mixture of potassium ferro
cyanid and potassium sulfocyanid; a mix tracts of rhubarb, cinnamon, allspice and
ture of urotropin and an‘alkali cyanid in cloves, oxalic acld, and gelatin in propor
proportions as speci?ed; a mixture of tri tions substantially as speci?ed.
phenylmethane dyes and potassium xan
7. A bacteria and fungi exterminator, 60'
ture of ?avoring spices, oxalic acid, and cyanid, potassium ferricyanid and sulfo
gelatin in proportions substantially as speci
cyanid; a mixture of urotropin and ammo
nium cyanid; a mixture of methylene blue,
?ed.
4. A bacteria and fungi exterminator, methyl violet, malachite green and potas
consisting of a mixture of equal quantities sium xanthate; and a mixture of extracts of
of double salts of potassium cyanid; a mix rhubarb, cinnamon, allspice and cloves, ox
ture of urotropin and ammonium cyanid alic acid, and gelatin, all of the above in
substantially in the proportions speci?ed; gredients in the proportions as specl?ed.
a mixture of triphenylmethane dyes and
WILLIAM‘ RENATUS KLEOKNER.
potassium xanthate 1n proportions as speci
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?ed; and a mixture of extracts'of ?avoring.
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