Electric heating – Heating devices – Tool or instrument
Patent
1999-03-04
2000-08-08
Jeffery, John A.
Electric heating
Heating devices
Tool or instrument
219230, 219220, 219231, 43134, 606131, 606 28, 362120, 362109, A61B 1750, H05B 100
Patent
active
061005010
ABSTRACT:
A device for removal of a tick from the skin of a host and alternately to be used as a flashlight, such device having an open-ended casing for receiving the tick in a V-shaped alignment guide and slot defined in the casing, such tick to be trapped in the slot with structure to apply heat from an illuminating heating element in proximity to the tick to cause it to release its grip from the skin of the host after which it can be removed, with such illuminating heating element also acting as the light source when the device is used in its alternate flashlight mode.
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Jeffery John A.
Nitkin William
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