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A Bee-Smoker has been patented 

 by Mr. Geo. W. Brodbeck, of California, 

 dated Oct. 11, 1892. The number of 

 the patent is 484,172. The object of 

 the invention " is to produce a smoker 

 of superior convenience and efficiency 

 of operation, and which is interchange- 

 ably a hot and cold blast smoker." 



After fully describing the smoker, Mr. 

 B. says that the following is what he 

 " claims as new :"j 



1. A bee-smoker provided with an air- 

 chamber surrounding the fire-barrel and 

 communicating with the blast-chamber 

 at one end and with the smoke-nozzle at 

 the other end, and a suitable damper 

 arranged upon the end of the fire-barrel 

 to prevent the passage of the blast 

 through the fire-barrel, and to direct the 

 blast through such air-chamber. 



2. The combination, in a bee-smoker, 

 of a suitable barrel provided near one 

 end with a blast-opening, a suitable 

 smoke-nozzel arranged at the opposite 

 end of such barrel, suitable means for 

 producing a blast through such blast- 

 opening, and a forwardly-inclined blast 

 deflector extending from the rear of the 

 blast-opening upward across and ob- 

 liquely transverse to the plane of such 

 opening to deflect the blast forward 

 through the barrel and nozzle. 



3. In a bee-smoker, the combination 

 of a detachable blast-chamber provided 

 with a blast-opening, the bellows, and a 

 blast-tube connecting such bellows with 

 such blast-chamber, and provided upon 

 one side with an air-ingress opening 

 communicating with the exterior air, 

 and arranged to be advanced into or re- 

 tracted from the blast-opening in the 

 blast-chamber. 



4 A bee-smoker comprising the com- 

 pination set forth of a suitable barrel 

 provided near end with a blast-opening, 

 a suitable smoke-nozzle arranged at the 

 opposite end of such barrel, a bellows 

 attached to such barrel by suitable 

 means, and a sliding tube connecting 

 the bellows with the blast-opening, and 

 comprising the inner and outer tele- 

 scoping members, one of which is pro- 

 vided with the longitudinal slits to form 

 the spring-tongue, said tongue being 

 arranged to press upon the other mem- 

 ber, substantially as and for the pur- 

 pose set forth. 



5. A bee-smoker comprising the com- 

 bination of a casing provided with a 

 nozzel at one end, a fire-barrel of less 

 diameter than such casing, and provided 



at each end with an outward flange to 

 extend across the space between the 

 fire-barrel and the casing, and provided 

 with the air-passages in such flanges, 

 the damper of approximately the same 

 diameter as the inside of the casing, and 

 provided with the notches in its periph- 

 ery corresponding to the air-passage 

 in the flanges of the fire-barrel, and the 

 spring-tongue arranged to project 

 through one of the passages in the flange 

 and engage with such flange to hold the 

 damper in position upon the end of the 

 fire-barrel. 



Mr. Frank Benton, of Wash- 

 ington, was present at the convention 

 last week in Chicago, and helped to 

 make it interesting. We had several 

 long interviews with him in relation to 

 some important subjects to bee-keepers, 

 and will have more to say about it later 

 on. It was quite a compliment to the 

 Illinois State Bee-Keepers' Association 

 to have the Government send Mr. Ben- 

 ton as a delegate from the Department 

 of Agriculture at Washington. 



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