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A vest or belt is integrally formed with tubular, pet receiving passageways which extend around the wearer's body and terminate in pocket-like chambers for feeding and retrieval.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5608987 | Fly and insect trap A fly and insect trap for attachment to a depending light bulb has an enclosure of translucent material for installation around the light bulb, the enclosure having an upwardly open top defining an opening for receiving the bulb into the interior of the e... | 03/11/1997 |
| 5570537 | Electronic insecticidal cable This insecticidal cable has a pair or pairs of exposed electrical conductive wire for use in a fly control apparatus. An electronic control unit provides pulsed high voltage between the parallel exposed conductive wires. Insects which contact either one o... | 11/05/1996 |
| 5528049 | Frequency emitter for control of insects An apparatus and method for controlling insects is provided. In one embodiment, the invention utilizes pumping radiation and molecular vibratory modulation to generate coherent or semi-coherent radiation frequencies to control or attract insects. Such con... | 06/18/1996 |
| 5515643 | Mosquito killer A mosquito killer including an upper cover having a center hole, a handle having a lower end extending downwardly through the center hole of the upper cover to engage with a stopper, a lower cover, a collapsible cross frame having upper ends slidably conn... | 05/14/1996 |
| 5513465 | Method and apparatus for catching insects An insect trap having a back portion and a base portion oriented at essentially right angles to each other. The trap back portion contains a light source to attract insects, especially fleas, to the trap and the trap base portion contains an insect struct... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5505017 | Flying insect trap using reflected and radiated light An insect trap using attractant light, comprising a source of light and a housing can be mounted on a vertical surface or placed near a ceiling surface. The housing and the source of light cooperate to form an upwardly facing opening for the facilitated e... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5425197 | Device for trapping flying insects A device for controlling pests, especially flying insects, which comprises an attractant radiation source (44) and a substrate (61) having an adhesive surface illuminated by the radiation. The surface is advanced continuously or intermittently from storag... | 06/20/1995 |
| 5424551 | Frequency emitter for control of insects The invention overcomes the problems with conventional solutions by utilizing natural (copied) scatter surfaces, dielectric spine (sensilla) forms, correct pumping radiations and correct vibratory modulating frequency to generate coherent or semi-coherent... | 06/13/1995 |
| 5417009 | House fly, horn fly, and mosquito repellents and apparatus useful in testing efficacy of same An apparatus for trapping insects having a radiation means and a semiochemical attractant means such that insects enter an air stream and are carried into a housing to trap them. The device further contains radiation pulsing means and a power supply to po... | 05/23/1995 |
| 5365690 | Flying insect trap using reflected and radiated light An insect trap using attractant light, comprising a source of light and a housing can be mounted on a vertical surface or placed near a ceiling surface. The housing and the source of light cooperate to form an upwardly facing opening for the facilitated e... | 11/22/1994 |
| 5353542 | Apparatus and methods for trapping insects An insect trap comprising: a base portion having a trapping surface; adhesive material placed on the trapping surface; and a mounting structure for so mounting a light source above the trapping surface that fleas are attracted to the trapping surface and ... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5335445 | Moving light insect trap An improved insect trap having a plurality of "moving" or sequentially-activated lights to attract insects, with particular emphasis on attracting and trapping parasitic insects, such as fleas, together with a card coated with a sticky substance to captur... | 08/09/1994 |
| 5329725 | Bug light and bag apparatus An air transmissible bag member is mounted coaxially aligned relative to a bug light assembly at a lowermost end thereof to receive bug members dispelled from the bug light assembly and directed into the bag by way of interposed fan assembly between the b... | 07/19/1994 |
| 5327675 | Use of alkyl cyclopentanone and phenyl alkanol derivative-containing compositions for repelling blood feeding arthropods and apparatus for determining repellency and attractancy of semiochemicals against and for blood feeding arthropods Our invention is directed to a semiochemical field trap for blood feeding arthropods which has the capability of causing determination of repellency and attractancy of semiochemicals against and for blood feeding arthropods. The field trap comprises an up... | 07/12/1994 |
| 5323556 | Trap for catching mosquitoes or all night flying insects and method therefor The trap includes an enclosure from which it is possible to draw air therefrom thereby reducing pressure therein. An opening is provided in the enclosure which enables outside air to be drawn therein as a result of the reduced pressure, and through which ... | 06/28/1994 |
| 5311696 | Device for attracting and killing fleas A device for attracting and killing fleas and other insects and bugs has a light for attracting the insects and a shallow reservoir of soapy water which the insects fall into causing them to drown. The soapy water can be replaced as often as is necessary ... | 05/17/1994 |
| 5311697 | Apparatus for reducing the population of flying insects An apparatus is provided for reducing the population of flying insects. A first transparent cylindrical container is oriented with its axis generally vertical and provides a plurality of storage shelves for holding an insect bait. Natural air convection c... | 05/17/1994 |
| 5301458 | Insect killer An insect attracting and killing device employs a translucently diffused light source to attract insects and operates in conjunction with a fan-driven air flow to draw the thus attracted insects inwardly into contact with an electrically charged grid.... | 04/12/1994 |
| 5301456 | Portable luminous insect trap The invention relates to a portable luminous trap for flying or crawling insects. A fluorescent lamp in the center of an insect ingress zone attracts the insects. Transparent baffles radiating outwardly from the lamp act as walls and an insect hitting a b... | 04/12/1994 |
| 5274949 | Insect trap The invention comprises a device for attracting and collecting flying insects. The device has an elongated clear plastic sleeve with a plurality of spaced passageways into the sleeve circumferentially around the sleeve to allow flying insects to travel th... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5272831 | Insect extermination and illumination device and operating circuit therefor An electrical circuit is provided for operating a combination insect electrocution grid and outdoor lamp. The circuit of the invention utilizes a high leakage reactance transformer in which a primary coil and two secondary coils are wound on a common core... | 12/28/1993 |
| 5274609 | Combination lantern and bug liquidator A glass globe for the purpose of preventing insects from blocking out the source of light in a portable lantern has two prearranged doors. The doors cover approximately 30 to 40% of the surface area of the globe and are made of a fire resistant material w... | 12/28/1993 |
| 5259153 | Light energized insect trap An insect trap utilizes an electrically energized light for luring the insects to a trapping device and powers the light from a solar or artificial light powered electric source. The electric source comprises an array of photo-voltaic cells, a rechargeabl... | 11/09/1993 |
| 5255468 | Insect attracting and capturing apparatus An insect attracting and capturing apparatus particularly suitable for capturing and killing mosquitoes. The apparatus has a light source for attracting insects. A fan establishes an air current into an insect receiving opening, and establishes turbulent ... | 10/26/1993 |
| 5251397 | Illuminated flea trap An illuminated flea trap having a tray and a cover injection-molded of thermoplastic material, one a duplicate of the other, each having support members formed integrally therewith are mounted in spaced vertical relation to one another using the support m... | 10/12/1993 |
| 5241779 | Apparatus for collecting and killing insects An apparatus for collecting and killing insects which includes a heat source for attracting the insects to a housing, electric conductor means, for connection to a power source, to stun or kill the insects, means for collecting the insects after they are ... | 09/07/1993 |
| 5231790 | Flea trap An improved flea trap (10) capable of arresting very high percentages of available fleas is provided which includes an illumination system (14) which is located in an elevated position and emits a preferred, relatively narrow-band visible spectrum; the so... | 08/03/1993 |
| 5228233 | Use of cycloalkanol derivative-containing composition for repelling blood feeding arthropods and apparatus for determining repellency and attractancy of semiochemicals against and for blood feeding arthropods Described is a method for repelling at least one of the insect species: (a) Musca domestica L. (Diptera:Muscidae); (b) Aedes aegypti; (c) Aedes albopictus; (d) Anopheles spp.; (e) Coquillettidia perturbans; (f) Culiseta spp.; (g) Culex spp.; (h) Psorophora spp.; (i) Cul... | 07/20/1993 |
| 5205065 | Use of ketone, alcohol and schiff base-containing compositions for repelling blood feeding arthropods and apparatus for determining repellency and attractancy of semio-chemicals against and for blood feeding arthropods Described is apparatus for determining repellency and attractancy of semiochemicals against and for blood feeding arthropods which apparatus is capable of using radiation means and created air stream means or carbon dioxide stream means to attract the art... | 04/27/1993 |
| 5203816 | Electric flea trap 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.... | 04/20/1993 |
| 5184417 | Flea trap apparatus A flea trap includes a cylindrical housing having a housing lower edge received in contiguous communication with a base upper edge of a housing base. The housing base includes a desiccant powder container receiving a desiccant powder therewithin, with a h... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5157865 | Cantilever type mosquito catcher A mosquito catcher includes at least a fluorescent lamp installed on a cantilever secured above a fan, a mosquito-attracting agent placed on the catcher for luring the mosquito flying to the lamp so as to suck the mosquitoes by the fan impeller into a con... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5142815 | Night light insect trap A housing (20) fits over a night light (11) and attaches to the night light (11) through a slot (22) which is formed in the housing (20). The slot (22) fits around an indentation (19) in the outer portion of the socket (17) of a night light (11) which nor... | 09/01/1992 |
| 5111610 | Insect-killing device An insect-killing device comprising a wall panel, edgewisely mounted to an overlying reflective hood which is spacedly mounted over ground by a ground post to support the panel over the ground. A layer of diatoma is bound on at least one face of the panel... | 05/12/1992 |
| 5081788 | Wind-oriented funnel trap An insect trap for attracting and capturing flying insects. The apparatus includes a chamber for holding an insect attractant and exposing the same to a current of air, and having a first opening allowing passage of air but not insects therein. Positioned... | 01/21/1992 |
| 5044112 | Flea trap utilizing night-light A flea trap uses an electrical receptacle mounted night-type lamp as a light source for attracting the fleas and means providing a sticky landing surface adjacent the source for trapping the fleas.... | 09/03/1991 |
| 5020270 | Apparatus for killing insects An apparatus for killing unwanted insects such as mosquito includes a lamp assembly powered to generate light attractive to insects, an electric screen surround the lamp assembly and applied thereto with a voltage sufficient to kill insects in contact, a ... | 06/04/1991 |
| 5014460 | Combination lantern and flying insect eradicator A streamlined housing contains an omnidirectional circular light source, an airflow channel with a flow restriction located just below the light source, and a motor driven fan with the fan blade located just below the restricted flow section of the airflo... | 05/14/1991 |
| 4979329 | Insect trap for fleas or the like An insect trap utilizes a self-contained, gradually decaying, radiant light source which is continuously operative independent of any combustible fuel or electrical energy supply and means to position the light source near a trapping device for trapping i... | 12/25/1990 |
| 4962611 | Portable electronic insect controller A portable insect electrocutor trap is provided wherein an electrified alternately polarized grid assembly detachably connects to a liquid fuel lantern. The grid assembly includes a top and bottom ring spaced apart and parallel to each other. Bars connect... | 10/16/1990 |
