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US 5,203,816 AGranted
Electric flea trap
OwnerDaniel M. Townsendinventor
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Abstract
Apparatus and method for an electric flea trap employing an emitted light as an attractant and a sticky substance as a trap, wherein the sticky substance is between the insect and the emitted light.
Claims11
A trap for catching insects, comprising:
- (a) an elongated, translucent, open-ended tubular member having a sticky coating on the outer surface thereof;
- (b) a protective screen sleeve made of mesh for permitting ingress of some insects but to exclude appendages of children and pets, disposed concentrically about said tubular member;
- (c) two end-pieces, each end-piece having an infacing surface removably engaging said tubular member and said screen sleeve, one of said end-pieces having an electrical connection means connectible to a source of electricity;
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- (d) a light source means connected to said source of electricity by said electrical connection means and held by at least one end-piece, said light source axially disposed within said tubular member between said two end-pieces.
2 more elements
A trap for catching insects, comprising:
- (a) a cylindrical screen housing comprised of;
- i) an cylindrical, open-ended, removable protective screen wall;
- ii) a fluorescent light source centrally disposed within said housing and connected to an external electric power source;
- iii) two removable, rigid, transparent, L-shaped plastic panels disposed between said light source and said screen wall;
- iv) two removable, semi-rigid blue transparent plastic substrate sheets having adhesive backing and a sticky substance coating on a surface facing outward toward said protective screen wall, said substrate disposed between said light source and said protective screen wall;
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- v) two end-pieces, each end-piece containing an infacing surface to engage said screen wall, plastic panels and said fluorescent light source;
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- (b) a base having four legs.
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A method for trapping insects, comprising:
- (a) providing a centrally located attractant comprising a radiating light;
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- (b) providing a translucent trap comprising a sticky substance circumscribing said radiating light and positioned directly in line between said light and said insects,
- wherein said attractant light radiates 360.degree. from its source and is visible to said insects irrespective of the spatial viewing position of said insects.
1 more element
A trap for catching insects, comprising:
- (a) an elongate light source means for radiating light in a circle;
- (b) a translucent tubular member surrounding the elongate light source and having a sticky coating on the outer surface thereof;
- (c) a protective cylindrical screen sleeve, surrounding the tubular member, for permitting ingress of insects attracted by the light source means to the tubular member for capture on the sticky coating thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.