US 12,239,120 B2
Bait stations
Paul E. Furner, Racine, WI (US); Greg Perkolup, Sun Prairie, WI (US); Jerome Matter, Racine, WI (US); Paul Diehl, New York, NY (US); and Adriana Bueti, Milwaukee, WI (US)
Assigned to S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc., Racine, WI (US)
Filed by S.C. JOHNSON & SON, INC., Racine, WI (US)
Filed on Oct. 18, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/381,529.
Application 18/381,529 is a continuation of application No. 17/078,332, filed on Oct. 23, 2020, granted, now 11,812,736.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/925,059, filed on Oct. 23, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2024/0041017 A1, Feb. 8, 2024
Int. Cl. A01M 1/20 (2006.01)
CPC A01M 1/2011 (2013.01) 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A bait station, comprising:
a housing that includes an upper casing and a lower casing coupled to form an interior cavity, the lower casing comprising:
a base having a base flange defining an outer edge;
an outer wall, the outer wall spaced apart from the outer edge;
an inner wall, the inner wall opposite of the outer wall and defining a receiving space; and
a top surface bridging the outer wall and the inner wall, wherein the outer wall defines an outer ramped surface, and the inner wall defines an inner ramped surface opposite of the outer ramped surface,
the upper casing comprising:
an upper flange, the upper flange corresponding to the profile of the base flange;
a dome, the dome extending upward from the upper flange to a top surface, the dome defining a front ramped surface along a first direction and the front ramped surface above the outer ramped surface; and
a plurality of apertures that are configured to allow insects therethrough into the interior cavity, wherein the plurality of apertures is configured to be adjacent to the top surface when the upper casing is coupled to the lower casing,
wherein the plurality of apertures of the upper casing is disposed within a depression, and
wherein the plurality of apertures extends linearly along a length of the depression.