Abstract: An insect vacuum device includes a housing having an inlet end opposite a rear end. A grip portion extends from a lower side of the housing. A barrel is affixed to the inlet end, wherein the barrel is in fluid communication with an interior volume of the housing. A reservoir is removably securable to the lower side between the grip portion and the inlet end. A motor is within the housing at the rear end, wherein the motor generates suction between the inlet end and the reservoir when the motor is activated. A trigger is disposed on the lower side, wherein the trigger activates the motor when the trigger is actuated. An inlet valve and a motor valve are disposed within the housing and move to an open position while the trigger is actuated.

Abstract: A capturing apparatus and related methods of use and manufacture. A capturing apparatus is used to humanely and effectively capture objects using a capturing structure having an upper portion, a lower portion, a proximal end, and a distal end. A valve is coupled to the capturing structure to prevent the release of the object once captured. An elongated member having a proximal end and a distal end has a contoured gripping feature on the proximal end of the elongated member, with the elongated member coupled at the distal end of the elongated member to the proximal end of the capturing structure. A holding structure is coupled to the upper portion of the capturing structure to contain the object once captured.

Abstract: A suction device for catching, for example, insects includes a piston arranged for axial movement in the axial direction inside a housing having a suction tube, and a spring attached between the piston and the suction tube. A locking member releasably locks with a latching member when the suction tube is moved in the axial direction against the piston. A trigger is actuated from outside the housing to release the latching member of the piston from the locking member of the suction tube. A spring force from the spring then causes the piston to move away from the suction tube toward the rear wall of the housing, producing a vacuum inside the housing which draws in the insects, spiders and other small animals.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a light emitting device includes forming a plurality of light emitting elements on light emitting element mounting regions, respectively, of a substrate, forming lens supports on the light emitting element mounting regions, respectively, are raised relative to isolation regions of the substrate located between neighboring ones of the light emitting element mounting regions, and forming lenses covering the light emitting elements on the lens support patterns, respectively.

Abstract: According to the present invention, there is provided a wasp repellent device comprising a suspension member operatively connected to a closed end of a bag. The bag has a skirt extending from the closed end of the bag to a mouth of the bag, with a drawstring fro contracting the mouth of the bag to give the bag the approximate shape of an inverted cone. The exterior of the bag is provided with a striated pattern and, in use, the bag imitates the appearance of a wasp nest.

Abstract: An apparatus for catching an insect sitting on a contact surface. The apparatus includes a casing, a light source disposed in the casing for dazzling and immobilizing the insect on the contact surface, and a catch tube disposed in the casing and movable relative to the casing. The apparatus further includes a catch container disposed adjacent to the catch tube and a slider to lift the insect off the contact surface. The slider is movable relative to the casing.

Abstract: An apparatus enabling users to pick up and dispose of bugs, insects and other small creatures. The apparatus comprises a bubble member having an open bottom. A handle member is attached to an outer surface of the bubble member. A bottom tray member is slidingly engageable with a bottom portion of the bubble member for closing the open bottom. A grooved receptacle is disposed on a portion of the bottom for receiving the bottom tray when such bottom tray moves to open or close the bottom. A trigger is disposed adjacent a top portion of the handle and is engageable with the bottom tray for causing such bottom tray to move to an open or closed position when the trigger is depressed and to an opposite open or closed position when the trigger is released. A spring is engageable with the bottom tray and with the trigger for moving such bottom tray.

Abstract: An insect capturing device including a head having bristles which are arranged in concentric rings. A handle has a trigger which allows a user to move the bristles between a diverged position and a converged position in which an insect is entrapped without being injured. The device may then be carried outdoors and the bristles again moved to the diverged position so that the insect is released harmlessly.

Abstract: The present invention provides an object catcher including a support shaft having a proximal end and a distal end, and a sheet portion arranged adjacent to the distal end of the support shaft. The sheet portion defines a periphery. The object catcher further includes a line having a first end portion and a second end portion and an intermediate portion between the first and second end portions. The intermediate portion of the line is slidably coupled to the periphery of the sheet portion, and the first and second end portions extend generally in parallel with the support shaft. With this construction, pulling the first and second end portions of the line in the direction from the distal end to the proximal end of the support shaft causes the periphery of the sheet portion to be gathered to thereby close the sheet portion.

Abstract: This invention relates to a toner for electrophotography which develops an electrostatically charged image, the toner at least containing a coloring agent, a binder resin, a charge control agent, and a functioning agent, wherein low molecular weight polyolefin wax obtained by a metallocene type polymerization catalyst is contained as the function imparting agent. The toner of the invention is excellent in fixability, and has offset preventing properties, heat response characteristic, anti-spent toner properties, and storage stability, which can thus obtain a sharp, high quality image.

Abstract: An insect or bug removal and disposal device is provided which comprises a housing portion with the bottom thereof opened to the atmosphere. A panel portion is inserted and made part of the bottom area of the housing. The panel is positioned to move within such bottom portion. During insect removal, the panel is in the opened or partially opened position and the housing placed on top of the insect. The panel is then placed in the closed position, trapping the bug or insect within the housing. The bug is thus removed for ultimate disposal. Upon disposal, the panel is opened and the insect removed from the housing of the device.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for destroying snails avoid a cleanup problem by causing live snails to cannibalize snail carcasses. To this end, snail carcasses are provided in a trap which is made accessible to live snails for consumption of the snail carcasses. The trap preferably is of a collapsible type or is otherwise provided with first volume permitting entry of live snails into the trap, and is reducible to a second volume insufficient to accommodate live snails, whereby such live snails are crushed. Further live snails are then permitted to cannibalize the crushed snails by restoring the trap to its first volume for entry of the further live snails into the trap. The first volume may be reduced to the second volume against a bias, which is employed to restore the trap to its first volume. Operation of these methods and apparatus may be tied in with a sprinkler system or other apparatus for providing a pressurized medium from time to time.

Abstract: A mechanically operated trap includes a tubular housing with a movable trap door at either end for trapping an insect therein. One end of the housing is shaped for use in corners, and the other end is flat for use against walls, floors, ceilings, etc. The trap doors are actuated, or actuation is initiated, by various user operated means and are maintained in the closed or open positions by various friction, spring, etc., arrangements. Extension handle means may be included to allow reaching normally-inaccessible insects. The trapped insect may be removed to the outdoors, or otherwise disposed of.

Abstract: An insect capturing device including a handle carrying an outwardly facing receiver and a catcher shiftable toward and away from the receiver for catching an insect and depositing it in the receiver.

Abstract: A receptacle in which an insect attracting substance is placed, the receptacle including a top surface having a fly trap appendage for trapping insects therewithin. A yieldable arm arrangement supports a swatter above the top surface of the receptacle enabling the user to swat insects by manually depressing the uppermost arm. A tray like member is moveably mounted within the receptacle for periodic emptying of the receptacle and the resupplying of an insect attractor.

Abstract: A manually operated, manually-powered, hand held suction device for capturing insects, solder, or other small objects by creating and then discharging a stored vacuum. A suction pulse is produced by initially creating a vacuum in an internal storage chamber of the suction device by using a manually operated piston pump, and subsequently creating an instantaneous suction into the muzzle or nozzle of the device and thence into the storage chamber by opening a trigger actuated shutter valve which lies in the barrel between the chamber and the atmosphere. The pump may include two check valves whereby repeated operation of the pump strengthens the stored vacuum. The object is sucked into the valve and toward the chamber where it is stopped by a screen. The object can then be ejected back through the muzzle by reversing the check valves or the direction of motion of the piston, pressurizing the chamber by means of the piston pump, and again pulling the trigger.