(under the class definition) Apparatus which includes a means specially adapted to brush, wipe or otherwise engage an erect, growing plant and to transfer a liquid material to a surface of said plant.
(1) Note. The material may be fertilizer, insecticide, herbicide or other plant coating, coloring, insulating or the like.
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1.01, for devices which are adapted to roll or slide along the surface of a lawn, turf or sod and to transfer thereto a fertilizer, herbicide, insecticide or the like.
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15, Brushing, Scrubbing, and General Cleaning, appropriate subclasses for brushing and wiping implements of general utility capable of applying any desired material to a surface of a plant or any other object. 43, Fishing, Trapping, and Vermin Destroying,
142, and 143 for devices which brush or wipe a growing plant to dislodge insect parasites.
118, Coating Apparatus,
207+, for machines of general utility and adapted to contact an object to transfer a coating thereto.
427, Coating Processes, and note especially
4, for processes of coating wherein the base is a plant member or animal specimen.
