US 12,465,040 B2
Poleborne thrustable arthropod trap
Gabriel Villegas, Caldwell, ID (US)
Filed by Gabriel Villegas, Caldwell, ID (US)
Filed on Dec. 28, 2018, as Appl. No. 16/235,101.
Prior Publication US 2020/0205391 A1, Jul. 2, 2020
Int. Cl. A01M 3/00 (2006.01)
CPC A01M 3/00 (2013.01) 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An arthropod trap, comprising:
a tube;
a pole extending through the tube, the tube and the pole configured to generate friction therebetween only by interference of an outer surface of the pole against an inner wall of the tube, the friction sufficient to maintain a position of the pole within the tube when the tube is stationed substantially vertically and the pole is under force of gravity only;
a handle stop attached to a proximal end of the pole and configured to limit distal extension of the pole through the tube to a distal limit;
a receptacle attached to a distal end of the tube; and
a disk moveable within the receptacle and attached to a distal end of the pole, the disk configured as a flat circular plate to limit proximal retraction of the pole through the tube to a proximal limit;
the trap configured so that when the pole is extended to the distal limit, the pole places the disk beyond a distal end of the receptacle to create an unobstructed circular gap between the disk and the distal end of the receptacle, and so that after the pole is extended to the distal limit, retraction of the pole to the proximal limit seals a perimeter of the disk to an interior wall of the receptacle.