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.
Claims4
A system comprising:
- means for maintaining a bait station separable from a mobile container in rotatable connection with the mobile container, the maintaining means comprising:
- the bait station configured and arranged as a wheel;
- a rib member disposed in an internal chamber of the wheel;
- and
- a bait holding station configured and arranged to receive a poisoned bait, the bait holding station disposed adjacent to the rib member inside said wheel accessible to pests through an opening into said wheel;
- means for securing bait in said bait station from spillage during motion of the mobile container;
- and
- means for accessing the bait;
- wherein the means for securing bait in said bait station from spillage during motion of said mobile container comprises:
- an axle engaging portion of the wheel having an exterior surface and an interior surface;
- a cover portion overlying said interior surface of said axle engaging portion of the wheel;
- and
- a chamber disposed inside the wheel between said axle engaging portion and said cover portion;
- and
- wherein the axle engaging portion of the wheel further comprises a first track along an outer perimeter of the axle engaging portion of the wheel;
- the cover portion of the wheel further comprises a second track;
- and
- the second track is disposed in and rotationally moveable along the first track, thereby providing rotational mobility of the cover portion.
A system comprising:
- means for maintaining a bait station separable from a mobile container in rotatable connection with the mobile container;
- means for securing bait in the bait station from spillage during motion of the mobile container;
- means for accessing the bait;
- means for concealing the bait station;
- and
- wherein the concealing means comprises:
- the bait station configured and arranged as a wheel;
- a rib member disposed in an internal chamber of the wheel;
- and
- a bait holding station configured and arranged to receive a poisoned bait, the bait holding station disposed adjacent to the rib member inside the wheel accessible to pests through an opening into said wheel;
- wherein the means for securing bait in said bait station from spillage during motion of said mobile container comprises:
- an axle engaging portion of the wheel having an exterior surface and an interior surface;
- a cover portion overlying said interior surface of said axle engaging portion of the wheel;
- and
- a chamber disposed inside the wheel between said axle engaging portion and said cover portion;
- and
- wherein the axle engaging portion of the wheel further comprises a first track along an outer perimeter of the axle engaging portion of the wheel;
- the cover portion of the wheel further comprises a second track;
- and
- the second track is disposed in and rotationally moveable along the first track, thereby providing rotational mobility of the cover portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.