Joseph G Luongo

US Patent:

20120090219, Apr 19, 2012

Filed:

Oct 19, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/277195

Inventors:

JOSEPH LUONGO - Toms River NJ, US

International Classification:

A01M 7/00
A61B 17/50

US Classification:

431321, 606131

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.