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US 2019/0320638 A1Published application
Method and apparatus to kill bed bugs without the use of toxic chemicals
OwnerRonald L. Ketnerinventor
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Abstract
A method to eliminate bed bugs. The method includes the steps of providing a substrate; apply a temperature sensitive chemical indicator to the substrate; and, calibrating a clothes dryer to determine the time required to kill bed bugs by placing dry bedding in the dryer.
Claims1
A method for eliminating bed bugs comprising the steps of
- (a) providing a thin, pliable substrate comprised of interconnected fibers;
- (b) applying to said substrate a temperature sensitive chemical indicator, said indicator changing color when said chemical indicator is exposed to a temperature of at least one hundred and fifteen degrees F.;
- (c) providing a clothes dryer;
- (d) calibrating said dryer by
- (i) placing said substrate in said clothes dryer,
- (ii) operating said clothes dryer for a selected period of time;
- (iii) after said selected period of time expires, removing said substrate from said dryer;
- (iv) examining said substrate to determine if said chemical indicator changed color indicating that the temperature in said dryer reached at least one hundred and fifteen degrees F.;
- and,
- (h) in the event in step (g) said chemical indicator changes color,
- (i) obtaining dry bedding,
- (ii) placing said bedding in said dryer, and
- (iii) operating said dryer for a selected period of time to kill bed bugs in said bedding.
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