Bait Dispensing System
AssigneeR C Solutions Inc
InventorsCheryl Leigh Highet, Stephen C. Slagter, Roy Melling, Leonard Scott Huff
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Abstract
Provided is a system and method for dispensing bait for the monitoring or control of pests. A garbage container includes garbage a storage member and a wheel assembly, which supports the storage member. The wheel assembly includes at least one wheel member and an axle joining the wheel member to the garbage storage member. A bait holding station is located inside the wheel member. Pests may enter the interior of the wheel member through an entrance aperture formed in a wall of the wheel member, such as an axle-engaging portion of the wheel member.
Claims6
A system comprising:
- means for maintaining a bait station separable from a mobile container in rotatable connection with said mobile container;
- means for securing bait in said bait station from spillage during motion of said mobile container;
- means for accessing the bait;
- means for concealing said bait station;
- and
- wherein said concealing means comprises:
- a wheel member;
- a rib member disposed in an internal chamber of the wheel member;
- and
- a bait holding station configured and arranged to receive a poisoned bait, the bait holding station disposed adjacent to the rib member inside said wheel member accessible to pests through an opening into said wheel member.
A system comprising:
- means for maintaining a bait station separable from a mobile container in rotatable connection with said mobile container, said maintaining means comprising:
- a wheel member;
- a rib member disposed in an internal chamber of the wheel member;
- and
- a bait holding station configured and arranged to receive a poisoned bait, the bait holding station disposed adjacent to the rib member inside said wheel member accessible to pests through an opening into said wheel member;
- means for securing bait in said bait station from spillage during motion of said mobile container;
- and
- means for accessing the bait.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.