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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2011
Applicant:
Joseph Luongo, Toms River, NJ (US);
Inventor:
Joseph Luongo, Toms River, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01M 1/20 (2006.01); A01M 3/00 (2006.01); A01M 7/00 (2006.01); A61B 17/50 (2006.01); A61B 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A01M 3/00 (2013.01); A61B 17/50 (2013.01); A01M 1/2094 (2013.01); A61B 2017/505 (2013.01); A61B 17/30 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus for killing and removing ticks from the skin of mammals which includes an aerosol canister. An environmentally safe refrigerant HFO-1234yf is carried within the aerosol canister. A mechanism is for dispensing the environmentally safe refrigerant from the aerosol canister directly onto a tick to immobilize and kill the tick. Another mechanism is for safely removing the dead tick from the skin of a mammal.