Boyd Refillable Animal Repellent Canisters
A refillable animal repellent canister comprising a housing with a removable cap, a spike attached to the base for mounting the canister into the ground and vents to allow repellent fumes to escape said canister. A canister is refillable by removing a cap from the housing and said canister is weatherproofed with the cap on. A canister with the housing comprising an open top with an oversized cap secured to an interior center shaft standing above the rim of the housing to give an umbrella effect and comprise a singular vent. A housing comprising a closed top with a cap inserted slightly down into it, and the brim of said cap resting on the rim of the housing and said housing comprising a plurality of side vents elbowed downward to a forty five degree angle.
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I Fred Boyd of 66 Phillwood Drive, Columbus, Miss. 39705 designed and built two different style Animal Repellent Canisters to be refillable with different types of repellents; the repellents are bought separately from the Canisters. The Canisters can be filled with powder, solid or granule repellents. I built two prototype Canisters, tested them and painted them. I tried several paint colors and decided on Olive and Hunter green; these two colors blend in with green plants. The Canisters can be re-painted to match their surroundings. Use the Canisters with the appropriate repellent to drive away nuisance animals without spreading the repellent onto the ground. The Canisters have weatherproof housings which eliminate the need to reapply repellents after it rains, making the repellents longer lasting, which saves on the need to buy as often. The two Canisters are different in appearance and scent the area differently. I named them according to their look. With The Gug-a-Not the repellent is enclosed and with The Dom-e-Nator the repellent is open to the air. The idea of the Animal Repellent Refill Canisters came when I had to reapply snake repellents that were exposed to the environments for copperhead snakes making their way along the front of our home and down along the front of the bottom steps. There is an overhang close to the ground that extends a bedroom; the snakes made this their pass way toward the steps. Because of the overhang this area stayed dry, I applied yellow powder sulfur snake repellent on the ground under the overhang and it stayed dry and scented year round. Soon I started thinks of ways to keep any type of repellent dry, solids, powdered and granules. February 2012: The Gug-a-Not was the first idea; I built a prototype in March 2012 and tested it. The Dom-e-Nator idea came in March 2012 and built in March 2012 to keep animals out of the plants in the front yard.
SPECIFICATIONSClaims
1. A refillable animal repellent canister comprising a housing, a cap, a singular vent or a plurality of vents and a spike attached to the base of the housing.
2. A refillable animal repellent canister of claim 1 comprising a plurality of vents around the housing sides and said housing comprises removable cap.
3. A refillable animal repellent canister of claim 1 comprising a housing, wherein the top is open and a interior vertical center shaft comprising threads at the top, with said shaft extending inches above the housing opening in which atop set an oversized removable cap.
4. A refillable animal repellent canister of claim 3 further comprising a threaded extension interior to the cap.
5. A refillable animal repellent canister of claim 1 is made of plastic.
6. A refillable animal repellent canister of claim 1 is made of metal.
Type: Application
Filed: Jun 27, 2012
Publication Date: Jan 2, 2014
Applicant: (Columbus, MS)
Inventor: Fred Boyd (Columbus, MS)
Application Number: 13/488,449
International Classification: B65D 51/16 (20060101);