DE202016000913U1 - Hand tool for catching and killing insects - Google Patents

Abstract

Housing with a connecting rod connected thereto, which has an operating possibility on the top and a stable net on the open bottom, characterized in that it forms the shape of a tubular chamber, protruding from the on the top of the possibility of actuation of the connecting rod.

Description

Hand tools for killing insects, colloquially called "fly swatter", "Fliegenpratsche" or "flypaper", consist in the usual design of a stem to which at one end a handle and at the other end a network of hard plastic is attached to the insects, especially flying insects, can be killed. The patent CH 324403A from 1954 still forms the basis for this simple, inexpensive and poison-free effect on insects.

So far, it has not been considered that an insect that is to be killed, with a device o. G. Fly type and so escape his killing.

This invention is based on preventing the flight of the insect through the use of a hollow cylinder in conjunction with a stable net and a piston. The insect is thus caught first. By depressing a piston, the insect is killed by the stable net attached to the bottom of the piston, the insect is killed.

The housing is a cylinder of metal or plastic with a manually operable from the top connecting rod and a net attached to the bottom of it, which is capable of crushing insect. The housing also has a hole to provide pressure balance between the cylinder and the environment and to make this invention work.

The inner diameter of the cylinder depends on the reaction rate of the insect to be killed. As a rule, this is between ten centimeters (for example, slow-reacting mosquitoes ("Culex pipiens")) and twenty centimeters (for example, fast-reacting mayflies ("Ephemeroptera")).

The mesh size of the net depends on the size of the insect to be killed. For small-sized fruit flies ("Drosophilidae") a mesh size of two millimeters is appropriate. With large-sized flesh flies ("Sarcophagidae") a killing success is possible even with a mesh size of six millimeters. Typically, the mesh size will be four millimeters.

The drawing 1 shows the invention in cross section. You can see the case, the connecting rod with an operating option on the top and the net on the bottom.

In 2 you can see the underside with the housing and the net with which the insect can be killed.

LIST OF REFERENCE NUMBERS

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Housing made of metal or plastic

2

Connecting rod with possibility of operation on the top

3

network

4

Hole to balance the air pressure

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Cited patent literature

• CH 324403 A [0001]

Claims (2)

Housing with a connecting rod connected thereto, which has an operating possibility on the top and a stable net on the open bottom, characterized in that it forms the shape of a tubular chamber, protruding from the on the top of the possibility of actuation of the connecting rod. Housing according to claim 1, characterized in that it is made of metal, metal alloy, plastic or a combination thereof to have the stability to kill insects without being damaged themselves.

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