Patents by Inventor Robert McQueen

Robert McQueen 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: 4815231
    Abstract: A trap for small crawling pests, such as mice, including an enclosed crush-resistant housing structure having first and second opposed mouse entry openings. A removable lower tray is removably positionable in the housing structure on the floor thereof. The lower tray has a pair of separated longitudinal glue strips thereon adapted to catch two mice who have crawled into the housing structure through the first entry opening. A shelf is fixed in the housing structure intermediate the floor and ceiling thereof. An upper glue tray similarly adapted to catch two mice thereon is removably positionable on the shelf. A ramp in the housing structure provides a path for mice entering through the second entry opening to the upper glue tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1989
    Inventor: Robert McQueen
  • Patent number: 4709503
    Abstract: A crawling insect trap including a housing and one or more shelves positionable in the housing. The housing is formed from a top, bottom, pair of opposite side walls, and an end wall. The side walls and the end wall are each connected to the top and the bottom. The housing is made from a hard material such as a hard plastic so as to define a generally rigid structure. One or more shelves are positioned in the housing in pairs of oppositely disposed U-shaped channels secured to the side walls. Baited sticky surfaces are provided on either side of each of the shelves. Each of the outer surfaces of the housing has a plurality of elliptical openings passing therethrough. Thus when insects attracted to the dark baited interior of the housing crawl through the holes they will become stuck to the sticky surfaces. When the surfaces become covered with the insects, the shelves can be removed and new shelves inserted. It is not necessary to replace the entire trap when the surfaces become covered with insects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1987
    Inventor: Robert McQueen
  • Patent number: 4594807
    Abstract: A crawling pest eliminator system mounted on a backpack mounting frame. A crawling pest flushing system is supported on the frame for spraying a flushing agent into cracks, crevices and wall voids and thereby initially flushing crawling pests, such as cockroaches, ants and spiders, out of their hiding places. A vacuuming system is also supported on the frame. The vacuuming system includes a vacuum motor, a removable recovery bag and a nozzle adapted to ride on the surfaces for efficiently vacuuming into the recovery bag the eggs of the crawling pests and the crawling pests themselves including those flushed out by the crawling pest flushing system. A flashlight is integrally built into the adapter into which the nozzle is inserted for illuminating the surfaces. A residual depositing system is also supported by the frame for depositing a pesticide residual on these surfaces which have been vacuumed of crawling pests and their eggs by the vacuuming system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 17, 1986
    Inventor: Robert McQueen