Patents by Inventor Daniel Sherman

Daniel Sherman has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4970822
    Abstract: This invention relates to the placement of insecticides in such a manner that precludes their contact by larger non target species and in a manner that isolates these insecticides form contact with food and other surfaces that may be contaminated by random application of insecticide products.Specifically, the invention concerns itselft with the construction of a device that allows containment of the insecticide in a manner that will deliver a lethal dose to the target insect.Additionally, the construction of the device entices crawling insects to its interior and thereby insures a more effective usage of a limited amount of insecticide concentrate.And, the invention allows for unique and stable application of premeasured amount of insecticide product in a manner that insures the stability of the insecticide and thereby lengthens the useful killing life of the insecticide product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 20, 1990
    Inventor: Daniel A. Sherman
  • Patent number: 4908980
    Abstract: This invention relates to the control of flying insects in and around homes, commercial establishments, farm buildings and the like. Specifically, the formulation, design and technique involved in the device allows the user to maintain an insect free environment and to dispense an insecticide capable of eliminating flying insects in a safe and effective manner. The use of a translucent shield that contains an insecticide that leeches to the surface through the heat of ambient light, while converting ambient light into a spectrum that attracts flying insects provides an economical method of delivering a killing agent to the insect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 20, 1990
    Inventor: Daniel Sherman
  • Patent number: 4905407
    Abstract: This invention relates to the packaging of a rodenticide product for consumer use in a manner the will inhibit the spillage of rodenticide when the user opens the package for presentation of the rodenticide to the target species such as house mice or rats. Inherent in the art is the teaching of a method of presentation that is not only user friendly, but one that provides the rodent with an environment that is conducive to its natural patterns of eating and concealment.The instant invention provides a safer method of offering a poisoned bait to a rodent population while also insuring that the palatability of the bait will be enhanced by providing the rodent with a secure habitat for its consumption of the poisoned product, thereby increasing the overall effectiveness of the baiting program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1990
    Inventor: Daniel A. Sherman
  • Patent number: 4891218
    Abstract: This invention relates to parafinized rodenticide bait blocks in general and, more specifically to the actual form of these bait blocks.The invention concerns itself with the physical construction and shape of the block and will provide a more effective rodenticide by providing a bait block that will have a continuous biting surface that a rodent such as a mouse or rat can knaw at at all times as the block is being consumed.The use of this block provides the user with an individual and metered portion of bait designed to be more effective in eliminating household rodents such as Norway Rats, Roof Rats and House Mice and will, by its use, insure the total consumption of the bait block, thereby providing increased efficasy of the block and greater safety in the use of these poisoned blocks because less residual bait is left behind.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 2, 1990
    Inventor: Daniel A. Sherman
  • Patent number: 4870780
    Abstract: This invention relates to the containment of a poisoned rodent bait in a manner that isolates the bait from exposure to non target species and in a manner that allows the bait to be placed among agricultural crops with ease and efficiency. The rodent bait station contains a number of unique features that will allow agricultural users to identify the location of the stations for servicing with ease and speed, and provides for a method of securing the station to the ground that is integral to the construction of the station itself. Its novel shape allows for the placement of the bait stations in and among thickly grown vegetation, and in areas that are most likely to contain rodent harborages. The rodent bait station is designed as an entire system of rodenticide placement that incorporates features for the dispensing of bait, and for the operation of a large scale rodent elimination in difficult climatic and environmental conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1989
    Inventor: Daniel A. Sherman
  • Patent number: 4835902
    Abstract: The invention relates to the containment of a block of rodenticide bait in a manner that precludes the contact of said bait by unintended target species such as children, pets, and wildlife. This device is used to provide a compact method of presenting baits to target species such as house mice, in a manner that is both safe and effective, and in such a manner that will not allow probing at the toxic substance with flexible objects such as wires, straws and other similar structures that might be bent into an easily fabricted configuration by children. The use of a sophisticated series of internal baffle structures that protect the bait from contact by objects inserted from the outside while allowing a rodent to easily traverse the bait station and consume the bait contained therein, make this device one of the most practical methods of presenting poisoned substances in areas that might become accessible to childred, pets and wildlife.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1989
    Inventor: Daniel Sherman
  • Patent number: 4833819
    Abstract: This invention relates to the safe containment of a rodenticide prior to their placement in tamper-resistant bait stations and more specifically to their containment in a device that will afford maximum protection of the baits from unauthorized contact with humans, non target species and the environment. A tray carries a rodenticide bait block and is packaged and dispensed in an outer case, or covered with a cover member, which is removed before the tray and bait is placed in a bait station feeder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 30, 1989
    Inventor: Daniel A. Sherman
  • Patent number: 4831775
    Abstract: This invention relates to rodent bait stations in general and more specifically to a method of preventing loose bait from falling from these stations when they are tipped or shaken. This design incorporates a new and unique method of isolating the bait within the station when the station has been picked up and put into a position that would allow toxic material to fall free. In effect, the use of this device will allow users to bait for rodents in areas that might become accessible to children, pets and wildlife without fear that the rodenticide will come into contact with non-target species.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1989
    Inventor: Daniel A. Sherman
  • Patent number: 4765091
    Abstract: This invention relates to the containment of rodent baits in a protected container that can easily be serviced by authorized technicians and one that presents baits to a target rodent population. Specifically, the device is designed to provide a pest control operator with a highly effective and protective containment structure that can be adopted to numerous forms of rodent baits and one that can be knocked down to form a relatively flat package when not in use. This use of a knock down device provides the user with a device that can be efficiently stored prior to installation and one that can be shipped economically over long distances. The use of two separate gates or containment sections allows the refill of only that section of the bait structure that may have been attacked by the rodents and conserves the use of bait to the actual feeding patterns of the rodent population.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1988
    Inventor: Daniel A. Sherman
  • Patent number: 4753032
    Abstract: A contact poison delivery system relates to the containment of a rodenticide impregnated wick in a "tamper-resistant" containers that will coat a rat or mouse passing through said container with a lethal dose of poison, ingested by the rodent as it preens and cleans itself. The position of the wick and the configuration of the internal structure of the container insures a maximum application to the rodent traversing the device while isolating the wick, its structure and the poisoned substance from prying hands. The device provides the additional advantage of being easily fabricated and for allowing a premeasured and readily definable amount of poison to be encased in a manner that will insure its stability and safe usage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1988
    Inventor: Daniel A. Sherman
  • Patent number: 4730412
    Abstract: This invention relates to the containment of poisoned baits in a manner that will isolate them from non target species while allowing a user friendly method of reloading the station. Specifically, the device is designed for use in areas accessible to children, pets, and wildlife and, the method of reloading the baiter allows the use of common types of packaging of retail rodenticides, in a manner that affords them with a reasonably protective containment in the aformentioned areas The baiter is designed to allow the introduction of a prepacked rodenticide product on one level of the device and, to allow a rodent access through a totally seperate level. This lateral division of the containment system and the set back of the rodent entry level makes it virtually impossible to reach the stored bait by attempting to compromise the structure of the device with fingers of common objects that might be found around a household.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Inventor: Daniel A. Sherman
  • Patent number: 4648201
    Abstract: A tamper-resistant rodent bait station having baffles on the tunnel entrance. The tunnels having longitudinal sections removed directly opposite the directly adjacent the baffles that elongates the distance between each opposing wall opening on each side and each respective baffle to allow a larger rodent to enter which allows for minimizing the diameter of the tunnel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1987
    Inventor: Daniel A. Sherman
  • Patent number: 4637162
    Abstract: This invention relates to rodent bait stations and more specifically to the use of an improved method of closure that will insure ease of acess by authorized personnel but will prevent the unit from being readily opened by those unfamiliar with its operation. The invention utilizes a system of independent flexible tabs, limited by restricting plates, to form an integrated structure of base and top and to seal the unit securely together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1987
    Inventor: Daniel A. Sherman
  • Patent number: 4608774
    Abstract: This invention relates to gravity operated roach traps in general, and more specifically to a two piece molded roach trap having an improved rectangular funnel design, which produces a steeply angled funnel surface, having an enlarged opening to insure that the roach will be deposited directly into the trap receptacle and will not be able to use the opposing wall surfaces to impede or frustrate its descent into the receptacle. In addition, the funnel is also provided with a recess on at least one of its faces, for retaining a lure or attractant to induce a roach to enter the funnel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1983
    Date of Patent: September 2, 1986
    Inventor: Daniel A. Sherman
  • Patent number: 4541198
    Abstract: A tamper proof rodent bait station that is spill proof, tamper-proof and one in which the design and construction provides the user with a highly safe device for the placement of rodent poisons in areas in which they might come in contact with children, pets, wildlife and food products. The bait station may be made of colored plastic to simulate night and dim lighting in the interior, and can be mounted in an independent tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1984
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1985
    Inventor: Daniel A. Sherman
  • Patent number: 4349982
    Abstract: This invention relates to rodent bait stations in general and more specifically to a bait station which is spill proof, tamper proof, and provides metered amounts of rodentcide divided between two separate feeding compartments within the bait station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1982
    Inventor: Daniel Sherman
  • Patent number: D268946
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1980
    Date of Patent: May 10, 1983
    Inventor: Daniel A. Sherman