US1962439A - Insect exterminator - Google Patents

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US1962439A
US1962439A US564589A US56458931A US1962439A US 1962439 A US1962439 A US 1962439A US 564589 A US564589 A US 564589A US 56458931 A US56458931 A US 56458931A US 1962439 A US1962439 A US 1962439A
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William F Folmer
Harrison L Chapin
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01M—CATCHING, TRAPPING OR SCARING OF ANIMALS; APPARATUS FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF NOXIOUS ANIMALS OR NOXIOUS PLANTS
    • A01M1/00—Stationary means for catching or killing insects
    • A01M1/20—Poisoning, narcotising, or burning insects
    • A01M1/2005—Poisoning insects using bait stations
    • A01M1/2011—Poisoning insects using bait stations for crawling insects
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01M—CATCHING, TRAPPING OR SCARING OF ANIMALS; APPARATUS FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF NOXIOUS ANIMALS OR NOXIOUS PLANTS
    • A01M1/00—Stationary means for catching or killing insects
    • A01M1/02—Stationary means for catching or killing insects with devices or substances, e.g. food, pheronones attracting the insects
    • A01M1/04—Attracting insects by using illumination or colours
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01M—CATCHING, TRAPPING OR SCARING OF ANIMALS; APPARATUS FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF NOXIOUS ANIMALS OR NOXIOUS PLANTS
    • A01M1/00—Stationary means for catching or killing insects
    • A01M1/20—Poisoning, narcotising, or burning insects
    • A01M1/2005—Poisoning insects using bait stations
    • A01M1/2016—Poisoning insects using bait stations for flying insects
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01M—CATCHING, TRAPPING OR SCARING OF ANIMALS; APPARATUS FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF NOXIOUS ANIMALS OR NOXIOUS PLANTS
    • A01M1/00—Stationary means for catching or killing insects
    • A01M1/22—Killing insects by electric means
    • A01M1/223—Killing insects by electric means by using electrocution
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01M—CATCHING, TRAPPING OR SCARING OF ANIMALS; APPARATUS FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF NOXIOUS ANIMALS OR NOXIOUS PLANTS
    • A01M2200/00—Kind of animal
    • A01M2200/01—Insects
    • A01M2200/011—Crawling insects
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01M—CATCHING, TRAPPING OR SCARING OF ANIMALS; APPARATUS FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF NOXIOUS ANIMALS OR NOXIOUS PLANTS
    • A01M2200/00—Kind of animal
    • A01M2200/01—Insects
    • A01M2200/012—Flying insects

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  • Our present invention relates to electrical appliances and more particularly to the application of electricity to the destruction of flies, moths and other pestiferous insects, and it has for its 5uobject to provide a simple, economical and efficient device of this character.
  • the improvements are directed in part toward greatly enlarging, in
  • Fig. 1 is a central vertical sectional view through an electrical exterminator constructed in accordance' with and illustrating one embodiment of our invention
  • Fig. 2 is an enlarged detailed section taken in a vertical plane through a fragment of the in ner' wire carrying cylinder and its supporting means;
  • Fig. 3 is an enlarged elevation of a fragment of the upper rim of the inner cylinder
  • Fig. 4 is an enlarged fragmentary horizontal section on the line 4-4 of Fig. 1;
  • Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the exterminator with the outer cylinder broken away and shown partly in vertical section;
  • Fig. 6 is an enlarged vertical section of a fragment of the rim of the inner wire carrying cylinder
  • Fig. 7 is a top plan view of the same fragment.
  • Fig. .8 is a diagrammatic view of the circuit arrangements of the electrical equipment.
  • the exterminator shown is designed to be suspended from above and embodies a suspension hook 1 secured to the top of a dome or cap casing 2, the floor 3 of which is fastened to the cap by spacing and supporting bolts 4.
  • a transformer housed within the casing 2 is a transformer, indicated generally at 5, for stepping up the ordinary 110 volt charge of a lighting circuit to above the 2000 volts required to instantly destroy life.
  • a mercury vapor tube lamp 7 is another smaller transformer 6, while beneath the center of the fioor.
  • We prefer to employ a mercury lamp because it furnishes a closer approach to cold light than does an incandescent lamp and certain insects, such as the common house fly, while attracted by light, are repelled by the presence of heat.
  • Another induction coil 19 associated with the field 13 leads to the sockets 8 and to lamp 7.
  • An outer flange 20 on the cap 2 is provided at intervals with fastening screws 21 that detachably support an outer glass cylinder 22.
  • the upper rim of the cylinder abuts the floor 3 and is molded with the provision of an outer head 23 that rests on the screws 21.
  • Within the cylinder 22 is a smaller concentrically arranged inner glass cylinder 24 spaced therefrom and enclosing the lamp 7 from which it is also well spaced.
  • This cylinder is provided with both inner and outer projecting beads 25 similar to the bead 23 at its upper rim, by the inner one of whichit is detachably hung upon fastening screws 26 carried in brackets 2'7 depending from the lower projecting ends of bolts 4 The said screws so engage the cylinder through the medium of insulating cups 28.
  • Cylinder 24 preferably does not abut the floor 3, as does outer cylinder 22, but is spaced therefrom by the brackets in order to allow circulation of air for ventilating and cooling purposes. As will be seen, both cylinders are open at the bottom, from which point safe access may be had. to the lamp or lure 7 with respect to the high tension circuit, the disposition of which will now be described.
  • the conductors 15 and 16 in the present form of flexible copper wires are wound back and forth over the inner and outer walls of the inner cylinder 24, longitudinally thereof in the manner shown in the Figures 1 and 5.
  • their'stretches are parallel and alternated with each other so that adjacent parallel wires on both the inner surface and the outer surface are 1 of opposite polarity and can close the induced circuit 14 of the transformer when connected by the body of the insect alighting upon or crawling upon any part of the cylinder.
  • actual contact of the body with the two adjacent wires is not required, as
  • the dead ends 17 and 18 of the conductors 12 and 13 may be suitably anchored in the lower end of cylinder 24, as shown in Fig. 1.
  • the bottom rim of cylinder 24 is provided with laterally projecting beads 29 in duplication of the upper beads 25. All of the said beads are notched or grooved as best shown in Figs. 6 and 7, constituting seats in which the wires lie.
  • the flies, moths and other insects flying up toward the light or lure 7 within the outer cylinder 22 have both the annual space between the two cylinders and the interior of the inner cylinder 24 in which to flutter and fly about. In both instances the charged wall is ever present and once inside there is small chance of the insect emerging safely.
  • the device such as herein escribed, open at the bottom and furnishing su h an extensive charged surface is ,very efiective against this particular insect.
  • the outer cylinder 22 constitutes a safety device or guard which prevents birds and humans from bein killed or injured.
  • the cylinders 22 and 24 as being made of glass which we prefer, equivalent materials may be substituted so long as they are dielectric and translucent.
  • the lamp '7 may be augmented as a lure with suitable. bait attractive to flies or such bait substituted as a lure under some conditions.
  • an electrical insect exterminator the combination with an open tubular glass cylinder having its upper and lower rims provided with projecting beads, and a lure within the cylinder, the beads having notches therein at spaced intervals, of continuous wires of opposite polarity wound longitudinally around the cylinder, the stretches of which wires alternate with each other across both the inner and outer surfaces of the cylinder and being held by the beads and the notches therein suitably spaced apart and also spaced from the cylinder surfaces, and a source of high voltage current connected with the wires.

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Cited By (9)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
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US2731762A (en) * 1954-06-01 1956-01-24 James F Jones Bug and mosquito catcher
US3835577A (en) * 1972-04-26 1974-09-17 Gem Insect Control Inc Electrical discharge insect control system
US4873786A (en) * 1988-07-18 1989-10-17 Franco Nicholas N Bug whacker light
US4962611A (en) * 1983-05-26 1990-10-16 Millard Lance L Portable electronic insect controller
US6421952B1 (en) 1998-03-12 2002-07-23 Keith D. Vascocu Insect attracting and exterminating apparatus
US20070006519A1 (en) * 2005-07-11 2007-01-11 Gunderman Robert D Jr Electronic Carpenter Bee Trap
US20090100743A1 (en) * 2005-11-04 2009-04-23 Adrian Prater Device for Illumination and Insect Extermination
US10045521B2 (en) * 2015-09-15 2018-08-14 Ningbo Dayang Industry And Trade Co., Ltd. Mosquitocidal light bulb
US12022817B1 (en) * 2020-02-25 2024-07-02 Dalen Products, Inc. Mosquito trap

Cited By (11)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2731762A (en) * 1954-06-01 1956-01-24 James F Jones Bug and mosquito catcher
US3835577A (en) * 1972-04-26 1974-09-17 Gem Insect Control Inc Electrical discharge insect control system
US4962611A (en) * 1983-05-26 1990-10-16 Millard Lance L Portable electronic insect controller
US4873786A (en) * 1988-07-18 1989-10-17 Franco Nicholas N Bug whacker light
US6421952B1 (en) 1998-03-12 2002-07-23 Keith D. Vascocu Insect attracting and exterminating apparatus
US20070006519A1 (en) * 2005-07-11 2007-01-11 Gunderman Robert D Jr Electronic Carpenter Bee Trap
US7757432B2 (en) * 2005-07-11 2010-07-20 Gunderman Jr Robert Dale Electronic carpenter bee trap
US20090100743A1 (en) * 2005-11-04 2009-04-23 Adrian Prater Device for Illumination and Insect Extermination
US10045521B2 (en) * 2015-09-15 2018-08-14 Ningbo Dayang Industry And Trade Co., Ltd. Mosquitocidal light bulb
US10470453B2 (en) * 2015-09-15 2019-11-12 Ningbo Dayang Industry And Trade Co., Ltd. Mosquitocidal light bulb
US12022817B1 (en) * 2020-02-25 2024-07-02 Dalen Products, Inc. Mosquito trap

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