Apparatus For Controlling Bedbugs

摘要

A portable apparatus for the collection of bedbugs, their eggs, their larvae, their debris, and their feces has a vacuum-producing motor disposed within a housing. A collection port is used to draw the bedbugs into the housing along a flow path to a collection chamber featuring a variable environment sufficient to kill the bedbugs. The collection chamber can be heated or cooled, can contain insecticidal substances, or ultraviolet radiation sufficient for killing the collected bedbugs. The flow rate and temperature ranges are adjustable to create sufficient heat and time of contact to kill selected organisms. The apparatus is especially useful for treating bedbug infestations in their natural environment without the need for toxic chemicals, long-term treatments that make the space being treated uninhabitable and other more extreme treatment regimens.

主权项

1. A portable apparatus for the collection and destruction of at least one of bedbugs, bedbug larvae, and bedbug eggs, said apparatus comprising:
a body having a collection port at one end of said body, a collection chamber at another end of said body for retaining said at least one of bedbugs, bedbug larvae, and bedbug eggs, and a handle for gripping said body; a fan assembly in communication with said collection port for drawing a vacuum to create an airstream through said collection port to said collection chamber for aspiration of said at least one of bedbugs, bedbug larvae, and bedbug eggs; wherein said collection chamber has a variable environment sufficient to kill said at least one of bedbugs, bedbug larvae, and bedbug eggs.