Fumes Utilization Patents (Class 119/534)
  • Patent number: 11690367
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes an apparatus, system, and method for trapping and exterminating arthropods, particularly red mites. The apparatus includes an opaque housing and a heat strip configured to have separate temperature zones. The method includes warming the heat strip to lure the mites into the trap, heating outer heat strip segments to drive the mites toward the center of the trap, and then raising the entire heat strip to a temperature sufficient to exterminate the mites. The system includes placing one or more of the traps in animal hold structures, including nesting boxes in poultry houses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: CTB, Inc.
    Inventor: Frank Luttels
  • Patent number: 11497195
    Abstract: A poultry behavioral development system includes a left end plate and right end plate; a top beam, attachable to upper ends of the left end plate and right end plate; a plurality of connection assemblies, which each include a connection beam that detachably attaches between the left end plate and right end plate; such that preadolescent poultry perch and jump between the top beam and the plurality of connection beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Inventor: Roger W. Iles
  • Patent number: 6325971
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for disbursing ozone throughout a poultry house in order to disinfect the same and to reduce the concentration of pathogens found within the poultry house. An ozone generator is associated with the poultry house and ozone produced by the generator is directed through a lower main duct that disburses ozone upwardly through litter disposed on the poultry house floor. In addition, the same generator directs the produced ozone through an upper main duct and ozone is disbursed from conduits leading from the upper main duct into the air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Inventor: Charles Hayes