Bait dispensing system
AssigneeR C Solutions Inc
InventorsCheryl Leigh Highet, Stephen C. Slagter, Roy Melling, Leonard Scott Huff
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Abstract
Provided is a system and method for dispensing bait for the monitoring or control of pests. A garbage container includes garbage a storage member and a wheel assembly, which supports the storage member. The wheel assembly includes at least one wheel member and an axle joining the wheel member to the garbage storage member. A bait holding station is located inside the wheel member. Pests may enter the interior of the wheel member through an entrance aperture formed in a wall of the wheel member, such as an axle-engaging portion of the wheel member.
Claims30
An assembly for dispensing bait comprising:
- a wheel configured and arranged for rotating on an external surface about a central axis of the wheel, the wheel further comprising:
- an axle engaging portion forming a first wall disposed radially from the central axis of the wheel, configured and arranged for receiving an axle, having a first exterior surface facing outwardly from the wheel and an interior surface facing inside the wheel;
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- a cover disposed overlying the interior surface of the axle engaging portion, configured and arranged for receiving the axle, having a first outer surface portion extending radially from the central axis of the wheel and having a second outer surface portion positioned and arranged circumferentially around the central axis of the wheel for rotation of the wheel on the external surface, the axle engaging portion and cover in combination forming a chamber enclosure between the axle engaging portion and the cover;
- an entrance aperture formed in said first wall of the axle engaging portion;
- a bait holding station disposed on the axle engaging portion within the chamber enclosure;
- a port opening formed in the first outer surface portion of the cover configured to provide access to the bait holding station;
- a cap configured and arranged to enclose the port opening;
- a lock-operating member configured and arranged to lock or unlock the cap from the port opening;
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- wherein the cover is configured and arranged to rotate about the axle and the axle engaging portion;
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- wherein the axle engaging portion is configured and arranged to non-rotationally mount on the axle.
A system for dispensing bait comprising:
- a rotationally mobile container;
- an axle disposed on the rotationally mobile container;
- a wheel disposed on the axle, the wheel further comprising:
- an axle engaging portion disposed about a central axis of the wheel, configured and arranged to remain in a substantially non-rotational attitude with respect to the axle;
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- a cover portion positioned and arranged to rotate about the axle engaging portion, forming a chamber inside the wheel between the axle engaging portion and the cover portion;
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- wherein the cover portion further comprises a radial wall extending radially from the central axis of the wheel and an outer surface portion positioned and arranged circumferentially around the central axis of the wheel for rotation of the wheel on an external surface;
- an entrance aperture formed in a radial wall of the axle engaging portion of the wheel;
- a bait holding station disposed on the axle engaging portion within the chamber;
- a port opening formed in the radial wall of the cover portion configured to provide access to the bait holding station;
- a cap configured and arranged to enclose the port opening;
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- a lock-operating member configured and arranged to lock or unlock the cap to or from the port opening;
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- wherein the cover portion is positioned and arranged to rotate about the axle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.