Electrocuting grid for an electronic insect trap, and method of fabricating same

A method of fabricating an electrocuting grid for an electronic insect trap, said method comprising the steps of:

• blanking a strip of electrically conductive sheet material to produce a series of longitudinally spaced laterally extending flat electrodes integrally joined at their opposite ends to first and second carrier members extending along the side edges of said strip;
• deforming said flat electrodes into U-shaped cross-sectional configurations;
• lancing said electrodes to produce integrally formed bendable tangs aligned in the direction of the length of said strip;
• inserting dielectric strand material under said tangs;
• clinching said tangs onto said strand material;
• severing successive electrodes alternately from said first and second carrier members in order to produce an alternating sequence of first and second electrodes respectively integrally joined to and extending laterally from said first and second carrier members, with the distal ends of said first and second electrodes being spaced respectively from said second and first carrier members, and with the first electrodes and the first carrier member integrally joined thereto being mechanically interconnected to and electrically isolated from the second electrodes and the second carrier member integrally joined thereto by said dielectric strand material to thereby provide a unitary longitudinally extending assembly;
• subdividing said assembly into discrete units;
• and
• shaping said units into cylindrical grids wherein said carrier members are circular, of the same diameter, arranged concentrically, and spaced axially one from the other to define a cylindrical zone therebetween, and wherein said first and second electrodes respectively extend laterally from said first and second carrier members into said zone.