Bye bye flys
OwnerLarry Leminginventor
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Abstract
A device that attracts, and subsequently allows flies, and other flying insects, to exit from an enclosed area, such as rooms in a house or commercial building. This device is not a trap, nor does it exterminate flying insects. Rather it enables flying insects to return to the outside environment alive. The device is comprised of a single, unobtrusive, clear, plastic material attachment to a corner of a screen or window. There is a funnel-like hole or tube in the center of the device that is punched through the screen and allows flying insects to “escape” an enclosed area. At the outer portion of the tube there are converging pointed tabs that prevent flying insects to enter or return to the enclosed area. This invention is attached to a window screen by barbed prongs that grab the screen and holds this device firmly in place.
Claims1
A device for controlling the population of flying insects, within an enclosed area in a building that does not trap or kill, but attracts and then allows flying insects to exit the space, said device comprising:
- a. a single, thin, transparent, plastic device that mounts in the corner of a window, or door, screen that has a funnel-like, conical hole in the center of the device that is large enough to allow flying insects to exit the enclosed area, and outwardly directed pointed tabs that converge toward the center of the hole thus preventing flying insects to enter the enclosed area from the outside;
- b. said device composed of a plastic material impregnated with a “sparkling” material that reflects and refracts light that in turn attracts flying insects to this exit device;
- c. and is secured to a window screen, after a small hole is cut in the screen, by four small prongs with barbed tips that hook through and grab the screen mesh.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.