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Flying insect eliminator

  • US 4,819,370 A
  • Filed: 09/21/1987
  • Issued: 04/11/1989
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/21/1987
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. Insect killing apparatus comprising a frame, support means connected to the frame for supporting the frame, a front face having a circular opening, a fine screen mounted within the circular opening, and a circular gutter having a U-shaped cross-section surrounding a front of the screen, an opening and a chute in a lower portion of the circular gutter and a collector supported in the frame having an opening adjacent the chute, a motor supported by the frame and a fan drivingly connected to the motor and positioned inside the screen and the circular opening, a shaft projecting through a central opening in the screen and a monofilament mounted on a front end of the shaft for rotating the monofilament adjacent a front of the screen as the fan rotates adjacent a rear of the screen, whereby flying insects are drawn toward the screen by the fan, and the monofilament rotating adjacent the outside of the screen kills insects near or on the screen and sweeps the insects into the gutter and directs the insects through the chute into the upward opening of the collector for subsequent removal of insect remains, lamp means mounted within the frame, an electrical power supply connected to the lamp means and to the motor for supplying power to the lamp means and to the motor and a relatively large aperture rear access screen closure releasably attached to a rear of the frame for permitting access to the lamp means and for permitting flow through the frame of air drawn into the frame by the fan.

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