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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2007
James H. Cink, St. Louis, MO (US);
Jonathan D. Berger, St. Louis, MO (US);
Steven R. Sims, St. Louis, MO (US);
Lee M. White, St. Louis, MO (US);
James H. Cink, St. Louis, MO (US);
Jonathan D. Berger, St. Louis, MO (US);
Steven R. Sims, St. Louis, MO (US);
Lee M. White, St. Louis, MO (US);
BASF Corporation, Florham Park, NJ (US);
Abstract
A tool for removing a cap from a pest control device includes a hub and at least four fingers depending from the hub in circumferentially spaced relationship with each other to cooperatively define a socket for receiving the cap within the tool. The fingers are resiliently moveable transversely outward relative to the hub upon receiving the cap into the socket whereby the fingers are biased transversely inward against a sidewall of the cap when the cap is received in the socket. A plurality of stops extends from fewer than all of the fingers laterally inward of the socket. The stops are adapted for contacting a top of the cap upon receipt of the cap within the socket such that the fingers and stops cooperate to orient the tool on the cap.