Abstract: A vapor emitting device has a main body with a wick. The main body includes a material reservoir and a wick reservoir. The material reservoir is configured to contain a volatilizable material and a vacuum volume. The vacuum volume supports at least a partial vacuum at a predetermined level. The material reservoir has a base surface surrounded by reservoir walls with a top surface including an inlet formed on the top surface. The wick reservoir extends from the inlet through the material reservoir and towards the base surface. The wick reservoir has a first end and a second end. The first end is adjacent to the inlet and includes an inlet orifice. The second end is adjacent to the base surface and has a material orifice. The wick is disposed through the inlet and the wick reservoir with an air gap formed between the wick and the wick reservoir.

Abstract: An insect repellent system includes an active insect repellent ingredient and a glycol solvent as part of a thermally activated dispersion using a wick and a heater. The active ingredient may be a pyrethroid insecticide or a natural insect repellent material. The glycol solvent includes at least two hydroxyl groups and may be a mixture of glycol solvents. In one solvent mixture, a combination of hexylene glycol and dipropylene glycol are combined with a pyrethroid insecticide of either metofluthrin or transfluthrin. The insect repellent system may be a portable insect repellent system formed from thermoplastic materials and rely on battery power to generate heat.

Abstract: An insect repellent adaptor is configured for use with an insect repellent device and includes an insect repellent bottle; a wick having a first end extending into an interior of the insect repellent bottle and a second end extending outwardly from the insect repellent bottle; a base having a wick heater extending outwardly thereof, and a bottle top having a bottle holder configured to attach the insect repellent bottle thereto; and a heating element. The wick heater is configured for insertion into the insect repellent device adjacent a heating plate thereof. The base includes a cylindrical chimney centrally formed in and extending through the base, wherein the chimney is configured to conduct heated, evaporated, volatilized material from the insect repellent bottle, via the wick, out of the base, and into the surrounding air. The heating element is cylindrical and has a diameter larger than a diameter of the chimney, is coaxially formed therewith, and is formed from a thermally conductive material.

Abstract: An insect repeller system for installation as a fixed base unit or a plurality of linked units includes a repeller station and a mounting structure. A hub controller provides power for operation of the stations and command instructions to control the operation of the repeller station for emission of vaporized repellent fluid and/or lighting of the units.

Abstract: An insect repelling device includes abase and a cap. The base supports a fluid reservoir containing a vaporizable insect repelling fluid. The cap has an exhaust port that permits a vapor of the insect repelling fluid to be emitted. The cap permits condensation of the insect repelling fluid vapors of the insect repelling fluid to flow toward the exhaust port.

Abstract: An operating device creating a rising heated vapor which passes through a grill having a concave surface enabling the condensate formed on the grill to migrate towards the center of the grill and away from the periphery of the grill which prevents condensate from dropping onto the operating device interfering with its operation.

Abstract: A tick control tube includes a carrier medium and a treated bedding material. The treated bedding material is impregnated with an acaricide and an oral deterrent. In one aspect of the tick control tube, the carrier medium is a cardboard tube and the bedding material is a fibrous cotton, the acaricide is permethrin, and the oral deterrent is denatonium benzoate.

Abstract: An evaporator is provided, for use with a wicked reservoir containing a volatile liquid. The reservoir has a plurality of guide members disposed symmetrically around the wick and extending beyond the height of the wick. The evaporator features a base containing a battery, and a removable cover containing a heater. Attachment of the cover to the base is necessary to establish an electrical connection between the battery and the heater. The guide members fit into recesses in the cover only when the heater and wick are properly aligned, and the heater cannot make electrical connection with the battery unless the guide members and wick are properly aligned with the recesses and heater, respectively.

Abstract: A pole mounted insect repellent system capable of being staked in the ground reduces and eliminates mosquitoes and insects by creating a perimeter zone of a plurality of insect repellent stake mounted devices such that mosquitos and other insects do not enter the zone.

Abstract: A battery powered insect repellent device capable of the battery being separated from the volatile dispenser element and further including wireless communication facilities between a smartphone and the repellent device enabling electronic monitoring of the status of the various elements in the device as well as displaying the same to the user.