Device and process for the control of ear ticks
AssigneeCiba-Geigy Corporation
InventorsRichard Furer, Paul Halter, Klaus Wettstein
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Abstract
A device and a process for the control of ticks in the ears of productive and domestic animals, e.g. for the control of Rhipicephalus appendiculatus and Rhipicephalus evertsi in the ears of cattle and horses, which device comprises an active-substance carrier and a holding arrangement for the active-substance carrier.
Claims6
Device for the control of ear ticks on productive and domestic animals, which device comprises an active-substance carrier and a holding arrangement therefor said holding arrangement comprising a pin made from thermoplastic material, which has at one end a point provided with a barb and at the other end an extension;
- whereby said active-substance carrier is in the form of a disk made from sintered thermoplastic material, in the surface of which is an opening for the location of said pin, which opening is connected with the rim of the disk by a slot, by means of which said pin can be inserted into said opening.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.