Instrument for removing ticks
AssigneeFortuna Vertrieb Dr. G. Schick GmbH
InventorGerhard Schick
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Abstract
An instrument for removing ticks from the skin of a person or animal and which includes a handle portion and a pickup device on one end of the handle portion. The pickup device includes a circular base wall having a V-shaped slot, and cylindrical jacket joined to the base wall. The cylindrical jacket includes a radial passage which is aligned with the open end of the slot. In use, the base wall is placed on the skin and the base wall is then slid along the skin to cause the tick to be received in and engaged by the slot, with the body of the tick entering the cylindrical jacket.
Claims16
An instrument for removing ticks comprising
- a handle portion,
- a pickup device mounted to one end of the handle portion, said pickup device comprising a base wall which has a slot therein for receiving a tick which is attached to the skin of a person or animal, and
- wherein said handle portion comprises a pair of elongate arms joined to the pickup device.
An instrument for removing ticks comprising
- a handle portion,
- a pickup device mounted to one end of the handle portion, said pickup device comprising a base wall which has a slot therein for receiving a tick which is attached to the skin of a person or animal, and
- wherein the slot is generally V-shaped and includes two converging side walls, and such that the slot defines an open end and a closed end, and the base wall is generally circular, and the pickup device further comprises a cylindrical jacket joined to the periphery of the generally circular base wall, with said jacket having a radial passage in the region of the open end of the slot, so that the body of a tick can extend through the slot and be received in the cylindrical jacket.
An instrument for removing ticks comprising
- a handle portion,
- a pickup device mounted to one end of the handle portion, said pickup device comprising a base wall which has a slot therein for receiving a tick which is attached to the skin of a person or animal, and
- wherein the slot is generally V-shaped and includes two converging side walls, and such that the slot defines an open end and a closed end, and the base wall has a generally circular periphery, and said slot extends from the periphery to a point beyond the center of the circular periphery of the base wall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.