Patent Application
20240334920
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The disclosure relates to insect traps and more particularly pertains to a new insect trap for attracting and adhesively securing inserts to prevent the insects from harming a plant, including trees.
The prior art relates to insect traps and includes a variety of insect killing and trapping devices being mounted to a support member and adhesively securing insects to an adhesive. Known prior art does not include an insect trap attracting insects by being colored a color reflecting light at a wavelength from 570 nm to 590 nm.
(g) BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a panel including a first surface, a second surface facing opposite of the first surface, and a perimeter edge. The first and second surfaces of the panel are colored a yellow color such that it reflects light configured for attracting insects. The first surface has a hole extending therethrough and through the second surface. The hole is configured for receiving a support member such that the panel is hanging from the support member. An adhesive layer is attached to the first surface and is configured for adhesively securing an insect to the panel when the insect contacts the adhesive layer.
Another embodiment of the disclosure comprises a method including the steps of positioning a panel on a limb of a plant. The panel has a first surface and a second surface positioned opposite of each other. The panel has a hole extending therethrough for receiving the limb. The first surface is colored a yellow color configured for attracting insects. The first surface has an adhesive positioned thereon configured to immobilize and retain an insect thereon when the insect comes in contact with the adhesive layer. The panel removes from the limb when a plurality of insects is attached to 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
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A hole 26 extends through the first 14 and second 16 surfaces. The hole 26 is configured for receiving a support member 28 such that the panel 12 is hanging from the support member 28. The support member 28 may comprise a limb of a plant 30, a hook mounted to a wall, a door handle, or any other support member 28 in an area prone to having a plurality of insects 22. The hole 26 is positioned proximate to a top end of the panel 12. Alternatively, the hole 26 may be positioned in a center of the panel 12. The perimeter edge 18 has a slit 32 therein that extends through a peripheral edge 33 of the hole 26. The slit 32 forms a pair of parallel edges 34 positioned from the hole 26 to the perimeter edge 18 that are selectively movable away from each other to allow the support member 28 to be extended through the perimeter edge 18 and into the hole 26. The first surface 14 is typically teardrop shaped. Alternatively, the first surface 14 may be diamond shaped, oval shaped, star shaped, or any other geometrical shape.
An adhesive layer 36 is attached to or positioned on the first surface 14 and is configured for adhesively securing insects 22 to the panel 12 when the insects 22 come in contact with the adhesive layer 36. Alternatively, an additional adhesive layer may also be positioned on the second surface 16. The adhesive layer 36 is translucent to facilitate the yellow color 20 of the panel 12 being visible through the adhesive layer 36. Alternatively, the adhesive layer 36 may be colored the yellow color 20. A removable layer 38 is positioned on the adhesive layer 36. The removable layer 38 has an anti-adhesive coating positioned thereon to facilitate removal of the removable layer 38 from the adhesive layer 36. Typically, the adhesive layer 36 will completely cover the first surface 14 of the panel.
In use, the panel 12 is positioned on the limb of the plant 30. The pair of parallel edges 34 of the panel 12 are moved away from each other to allow the limb of the plant 30 to extend into the hole 26. The removable layer 12 is removed from the adhesive layer 36, before or after positioning the panel 12 on the plant 30, to expose the adhesive layer 36. The panel 12 is removed from the limb of the plant 30 when a plurality of insects 22 is attached to the panel 12. Typically, the panel 12 is placed on a plant 30, which may be a houseplant, outdoor plant, tree, bush, or the like, to capture insects that might otherwise damage the plant 30 or which cause a nuisance to people due the plant 30 attracting the insects.
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.
