(under subclass 124) Devices or processes for destroying invertebrate animals, i.e., insects.
(1) Note. While the specific process of spraying liquid insecticide is found in this subclass the sprayer apparatus itself is more properly found elsewhere. See Search Notes below.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
107+, and particularly subclasses 110, 112, 113, and 114+ for insect destroying traps.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS
239, Fluid Sprinkling, Spraying, and Diffusing, appropriate
subclasses, for liquid sprayer apparatus, and
1+, for processes of spraying of liquids which are not insecticides. 424, Drug, Bio-Affecting and Body Treating Compositions, appropriate subclasses for an insecticidal composition to be sprayed upon a field or plant and for a method involving the mere application or spraying of a biocidal composition. Also see Class Definitions Lines With Other Classes, for the line between the processes of that class and this.
516, Colloid Systems and Wetting Agents; Subcombinations Thereof; Processes of Making, Stabilizing, Breaking, or Inhibiting,
1+, for smoke or fog colloid systems or agents for such systems or making or stabilizing such systems or such agents, when generically claimed or when there is no hierarchically superior provision in the USPC for the specifically claimed art.
