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US 2026/0137071 A1Published application
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.
Claims17
A movable arthropod harvesting machine comprising:
- a frame;
- wheels connected to the frame for moving along the ground;
- an extermination section supported on the frame and configured for exterminating arthropods;
- and
- an attachment surface movably supported by the frame, the attachment surface being configured:
- to directly face the ground so that arthropods in a manner that arthropods on the ground jump onto the attachment surface;
- to carry arthropods for a location directly facing the ground to the extermination section so the extermination section exterminates the arthropods attached to the attachment surface;
- and
- of a material that arthopods directly attach to for carrying to the extermination section.
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A movable arthropod harvesting machine comprising:
- 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;
- a heater configured for exterminating the arthropod on the attachment surface;
- and
- a source for generating carbon dioxide,
- wherein the machine is configured such that the attachment surface travels above grass and arthropods in the grass are attracted to the machine by the source for generating carbon dioxide and attach to the attachment surface.
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A method of constructing a movable arthropod harvesting machine comprising:
- mounting an arthropod extermination device and a carbon dioxide source on a frame;
- rotatably mounting wheels on the frame, the wheels arranged for contacting the ground;
- rotatably mounting a plurality of rollers on the frame;
- and
- wrapping a movable belt around the rollers such that the movable belt is drivable along the rollers with a first portion of the movable belt traveling horizontally with an attachment surface of the first portion of the movable belt facing the ground, and with a second portion of the movable belt traveling through the arthropod extermination device, the attachment surface configured for being attached to by an arthropod.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.