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US 12,543,722 B2Granted
Thermo-mechanical device for capturing and exterminating ticks
AssigneeBayshore Innovations LLC
InventorsDuncan Culver, Valerie Ann Montecalvo, Frank Charles Montecalvo
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Abstract
A movable arthropod harvesting machine includes a frame; wheels connected to the frame for moving along the ground; an attachment surface supported by the frame and configured for being attached to by an arthropod; and an extermination section supported on the frame and configured for exterminating the arthropod on the attachment surface.
Claims20
A movable arthropod harvesting machine comprising:
- a frame;
- wheels connected to the frame for moving along a ground;
- an attachment surface supported by the frame and configured for being attached to by an arthropod while the attachment surface is directly facing and spaced above the ground;
- an extermination section supported on the frame and configured for exterminating the arthropod on the attachment surface as the attachment surface is moved through the extermination section,
- the extermination section being a heater configured for heating the attachment surface of at least 500° F. as the attachment surface passes through the heater, the attachment surface being a fabric having a thermal resistance of at least 500° F.;
- a movable belt enters the heater at an entrance opening and exits the heater at an exit opening, and
- a plurality of rollers, wherein the heater being positioned between a first roller of the plurality of rollers and a second roller of the plurality of rollers such that the movable belt passes along the first roller before entering the heater and passes along the second roller after exiting the heater.
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A movable arthropod harvesting machine comprising:
- a frame;
- wheels connected to the frame for moving along a ground;
- an attachment surface supported by the frame and configured for being attached to by an arthropod while the attachment surface is directly facing and spaced above the ground;
- a heater configured for exterminating the arthropod on the attachment surface as the attachment surface is moved through the heater;
- a source for generating carbon dioxide,
- the heater configured for heating the attachment surface of at least 500° F. as the attachment surface passes through the heater, the attachment surface being a fabric having a thermal resistance of at least 500° F.;
- a movable belt enters the heater at an entrance opening and exits the heater at an exit opening, and
- a plurality of rollers, wherein the heater being positioned between a first roller of the plurality of rollers and a second roller of the plurality of rollers such that the movable belt passes along the first roller before entering the heater and passes along the second roller after exiting the heater.
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A movable arthropod harvesting machine comprising:
- a frame;
- wheels connected to the frame for moving along a ground;
- a plurality of rollers rotatably mounted on the frame;
- a movable belt wrapped around the rollers, the movable belt including an attachment surface supported by the frame and configured for being attached to by an arthropod while the attachment surface is directly facing and spaced above the ground;
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- a heater supported on the frame and configured for exterminating the arthropod on the attachment surface as the attachment surface is moved through the extermination section,
- such that the movable belt enters the heater at an entrance opening and exits the heater at an exit opening, and
- the heater being positioned between a first roller of the rollers and a second roller of the rollers such that the movable belt passes along the first roller before entering the heater and passes along the second roller after exiting the heater.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.