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US5078729A
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Tick removal tool
Assignee: Individual
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Filing: 1990-08-30
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Granted: 1992-01-07
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Expires: 2010-08-30
Abstract
Abstract A pair of elongated interlocked pivotal clamping members having opposing, normally closed, openable jaws structured for enclosing the body of an embedded tick within a cavity formed between the closed jaws. One jaw has a semicircular notch centered with the cavity. The notch forms an aperture when the jaws are closed. The aperture is sized for snug fitting placement over the neck of the tick to hold and prevent severing of the tick's neck. One clamping memer is affixed with a compression spring which abuts the opposing clamping member to maintain the jaws in a normally closed position. Both clamping members gradually widen from the jaw end to the oppositely disposed ends thereof, which are affixed with widened finger or gripping plates for easy handling.
Inventors
- 👤 Heino F. Eichhorn
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-10-26 15:22
CPC Classifications
A; A61; A61B; A61B17/00; A61B17/50; A61B2017/505
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 2
Claim 1
Independent Claim
329 words
A tool for removing a tick partially embedded in an animal's skin, said tool comprising; an elongated first member and an elongated second member each having a first end and an oppositely disposed second end, said first member and said second member each made of lightweight thermoplastic material, said first member affixed by pivotal attachment means to said second member with the affixment positioning said members lengthwise parallel with said first ends and second ends generally aligned respectively, said pivotal attachment means positioned between said first ends and said second ends of said members, biasing means attached to one of the said members and in communication with the other said member, said biasing means positioning said first ends normally closed together and said second ends normally in spaced apart relationship from one another, said biasing means being a compressible resilient loop formed of thermoplastic material as an inherent structure of said member to which said biasing means is attached, said second ends of said members each having widened finger placement surfaces to allow pressing said second ends toward one another providing means for compressing said biasing means and causing movement at said pivotal attachment means to separate said normally closed together said first ends, said first ends of said members each having an affixed terminal end wall positioned to abut one another with said first ends in said normally closed position, a notch in at least one said end wall forming an aperture through abutted said end walls, said aperture sized generally commensurate with a tick's neck diameter, said aperture leading generally centrally into a cavity defined by said first ends, said cavity sized to contain an engorged body of a tick with said first ends in said normally closed position, said end walls sufficiently thin in nature to be placeable between an animal's skin and the body of a tick partially embedded in the animal's skin with the tick's neck extending through said aperture in said end walls.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
329 words
A tool for removing a tick partially embedded in an animal's skin, said tool comprising; an elongated first member and an elongated second member each having a first end and an oppositely disposed second end, said first member and said second member each made of lightweight thermoplastic material, said first member affixed by pivotal attachment means to said second member with the affixment positioning said members lengthwise parallel with said first ends and second ends generally aligned respectively, said pivotal attachment means positioned between said first ends and said second ends of said members, biasing means attached to one of the said members and in communication with the other said member, said biasing means positioning said first ends normally closed together and said second ends normally in spaced apart relationship from one another, said biasing means being a compressible resilient loop formed of thermoplastic material as an inherent structure of said member to which said biasing means is attached, said second ends of said members each having widened finger placement surfaces to allow pressing said second ends toward one another providing means for compressing said biasing means and causing movement at said pivotal attachment means to separate said normally closed together said first ends, said first ends of said members each having an affixed terminal end wall positioned to abut one another with said first ends in said normally closed position, a notch in at least one said end wall forming an aperture through abutted said end walls, said aperture sized generally commensurate with a tick's neck diameter, said aperture leading generally centrally into a cavity defined by said first ends, said cavity sized to contain an engorged body of a tick with said first ends in said normally closed position, said end walls sufficiently thin in nature to be placeable between an animal's skin and the body of a tick partially embedded in the animal's skin with the tick's neck extending through said aperture in said end walls.
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