Patent Application
20220225600
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The disclosure relates to trapping devices and more particularly pertains to a new trapping device for trapping insects and shielding them from view. The present invention discloses a trapping device comprising an open topped housing that is mountable to a wall and which has a panel removably positionable therein. An adhesive compound and an attractant are positioned on the panel. Insects attracted to the panel are trapped thereupon but are not viewable when the housing is mounted above eye level.
The prior art relates to trapping devices. Prior art trapping devices may comprise apparatus having insect attracting lights with flypaper positioned proximately thereto. Prior art trapping devices thus require a power source. What is lacking in the prior art is a trapping device comprising an open topped housing that is mountable to a wall and which has a panel removably positionable therein. An adhesive compound and an attractant are positioned on the panel. Insects attracted to the panel are trapped thereupon but are not viewable when the housing is mounted above eye level.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a housing, which defines an interior space. The housing has a top, which is open. A panel is selectively insertable through the top into the interior space. A fastener engaged to a back of the housing is configured to engage a substrate so that the housing is mounted thereto. An adhesive compound and an attractant are positioned upon a surface of the panel. The attractant is configured to attract insects into the interior space and the adhesive compound is configured to trap insects landing upon the panel.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
As best illustrated in
A fastener 20 engaged to a back 22 of the housing 12 is configured to engage a substrate, such as a wall, column, and the like, so that the housing 12 is mounted thereto. The fastener 20 may comprise an adhesive strip 24, as shown in
An adhesive compound 28 and an attractant 30 are positioned upon a surface 32 of the panel 18. The present invention also anticipates the panel 18 being impregnated with one or both of the adhesive compound 28 and the attractant 30. The attractant 30 is configured to attract insects into the interior space 14 and the adhesive compound 28 is configured to trap insects landing upon the panel 18. The adhesive compound 28 may comprise rosin, rubber, or combination thereof.
The device 10 also may comprise a pair of rings 34 engaged singly to opposed ends 36 of the housing 12 and extending into the interior space 14. A pair of tabs 38 is engaged singly to and extends from opposing ends 40 of the panel 18, proximate to a lower limit 42 thereof. Each tab 38 is positioned to be inserted into a respective ring 34 as the panel 18 is inserted into the interior space 14 so that the tabs 38 removably engage the panel 18 to the housing 12.
A handle 44 is engaged to and extends from a respective opposing end 40 of the panel 18, proximate to an upper limit 46 thereof. The handle 44 is configured to be grasped in digits of a hand of a user, positioning the user to remove the panel 18 from the interior space 14.
In use, the device 10 is configured to attract and to trap insects, enabling a method 48 of trapping insects. The method 48, as generally shown in
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
