DK166937B1 - MEASURES TO COMPLETE TRAFFIC OF ANIMALS - Google Patents

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in DK 166937 B1

The invention relates to an air mat for controlling the clothing of pets traveling both outdoors and indoors, and with an insecticide which can be delivered from the mat to the pet resting on the mat.

5 It is a well-known case for owners of such pets that the animals must be treated against clothing, at least when the plague becomes so extensive that the animals or owners are bothered by it.

From British Patent Application No. 2,211,387, it is known to design a pet bed of a container of 10 rigid material with inflow and outflow holes at the bottom for ventilation and to pass steam from a tray containing an insecticide or other chemicals through the holes to the pet or its backing material.

In this way, evaporated chemicals pass through both the inflow holes and through the outflow holes to the pet's fur or via the substrate up to the fur. This causes unnecessary loss of insecticide to the environment, and it will probably also be impossible to get the pet to sleep in its container if no fabric substrate is laid on the container floor. Each time this fabric substrate is washed, it will take a long time for the chemical fumes to impregnate the substrate to its insecticidal condition. How long it will take will depend on the nature and thickness of the substrate and the rate of evaporation of the chemicals. Perhaps the 25 fabric backing will be washed again before the chemicals' evaporation has managed to properly impregnate the fabric backing, thus ensuring that the pet's clothing is not contaminated.

From French Patent Application No. 2,608,368, a mat with peat is known, and the reverse of which consists of an open-pore latex-type foam material in which the insecticide is stored in the pores of the foam material. From here, the insecticide is emitted by evaporation to the pet when it is lying on the hatch and by radiant heat emits the temperature needed for the evaporation to the foam material.

A disadvantage of this is that when heated by the pet, the insecticide is delivered both to the pet and to the foam material, to which also liquid liquid insecticide can be delivered by extortion under the effect of the pet's weight. In this way, insecticide is unnecessarily wasted, and in the worst case, the substrate is destroyed.

It is the object of the invention to remedy the above in connection with known anti-fouling agents. This is achieved in accordance with the invention by a mat of the kind which is characterized in that the surface of the mat is impregnated with the insecticide for delivery thereof by contact with the surface and / or by slow evaporation from the surface and that it has one to a waterproof back, attached peaty primary tissue to which the yarns and primary base are added to the insecticide.

In this way - without the need for extra pet bedding and without unnecessary loss of insecticide to the substrate 15 or to the environment - an effective prevention against excessive insect population on the pet is achieved over the entire part of the animal's skin on which the animal rests during rest and sleep, the insecticide being released from the paw by direct contact with the pet's fur and / or by evaporation from the peat and primary tissue when heated by the pet's body temperature. In addition, the animal's sleeping place becomes permanently free of living insects, which also use known sleeping mats as hatching sites for the next insect generations.

The mat can be laid on a floor, in a basket or in a known "pet bed" and can be replaced regularly for cleaning and re-impregnation.

By adding an insecticide to both the pile yarns and the primary base, a high insecticide capacity is achieved and thus longer service life before replacement with a new mat or wash and re-impregnation.

The mat hat can, for example. be a cotton canvas, the primary bottom may be, for example, of materials such as a non-woven textile material, a geotextile, paper or natural fiber material, etc., while the back may be of plastic, rubber, synthetic rubber or of a woven material as known in the art. technique is made water or liquid tight.

In one embodiment, the air mat has incisions of suitable locations along its perimeter, an increased contact surface for the insecticide's contact release to the animal is obtained, the mat being suitable for placement in a basket or similar concave bed for an outside pet nuisance. folds, the mat being thereby more easily adapted to both the bottom of the bed and to inclined or vertical inside walls. Since pets often lie with their necks and backs against the sidewall of the basket, contact between the air mat and the animal's neck and back is also achieved to increase the effect of the insecticide, both by touch and evaporation.

10 By providing the watertight backing layer with perforations that are too small to allow appreciable fluid to pass through when the pet is lying on the mat during its use, but large enough to allow substantial permeation or flow when the mat is subjected to centrifugation 15 In a washing or insecticide impregnation process, a faster, more thorough and more uniform impregnation of the padding mat is obtained, while the impregnant is not lost when permeated during transport, storage or use of the padding mat.

Examples of suitable peat mat insecticides according to the invention include: Propoxur (registered trademark, Bayer AG), diazinone, 2-t-butyl-4-hydroxyanisole, 3-t-butyl-4-hydroxyanisole and an agent of the generic formula R 3 -Sn-Z wherein R is a phenyl compound and Z e.g. is dialkyl carbamate 25 or dialkyl (di) thiocarbamate, as they have been shown not to be bothersome to the pet or its owner, but only to the insects, such as fleas that are killed or interrupted by their reproductive cycle.

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Claims (3)

1. An air mat for controlling the clothing of pets traveling both indoors and outdoors with an insecticide which can be delivered from the mat to the pet resting on the mat, characterized in that the mat's surface is impregnated with the insecticide to delivering this by touching the surface and / or by slow evaporation from the surface, and having a pervious primary tissue attached to a waterproof back, to which the peat yarns and primary base are added to the insecticide. An air mat according to claim 1, characterized in that it has incised at suitable places along its perimeter. 15 An air mat according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the waterproof back is provided with perforations that are too small to allow appreciable fluid to pass through when the pet is lying on the mat, but large enough to allow substantial penetration or flow when the mat 20 is subjected to centrifugation in a washing or insecticide impregnation process.