An aerial application dispersal system that comprises an aerial vehicle and an aerial dispersal unit. The aerial dispersal unit provides an insect control substance, a flake auger, and a motor to drive the flake auger for transporting the insect control substance to a dispensing chamber. The aerial
An aerial application dispersal system that comprises an aerial vehicle and an aerial dispersal unit. The aerial dispersal unit provides an insect control substance, a flake auger, and a motor to drive the flake auger for transporting the insect control substance to a dispensing chamber. The aerial dispersal unit also provides a glue substance, a pump, and a motor to drive the pump for transporting the glue substance from a storage container to the dispensing chamber for mixing with the insect control substance. The dispensing chamber is provided with a motor for forcing the insect control substance mixed with the glue substance out an exit portal for disbursement over the designated area. A control box, control switches, global positioning satellite system, and dispersal unit operator interface are also provided for automatically regulating the mixing and dispensing rate of the insect control substance and glue substance in relation to the ground speed of the aerial vehicle for maintaining a constant, uniform disbursement of a bonded substance over a designated area.
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What is claimed is: 1. An aerial application dispersal system, comprising: a housing containing an insect control substance and a glue substance; a dispensing chamber connected to the housing; means for moving the housing and dispensing chamber through the air; means for transferring the insect con
What is claimed is: 1. An aerial application dispersal system, comprising: a housing containing an insect control substance and a glue substance; a dispensing chamber connected to the housing; means for moving the housing and dispensing chamber through the air; means for transferring the insect control substance into the dispensing chamber; means for transferring the glue substance into the dispensing chamber; means for regulating the rate at which the means for transferring the insect control substance into the dispensing chamber is transferred and increasing or decreasing the rate by the same percentage to correspond to any increase or decrease in the changes in the actual speed of the aerial vehicle; means for regulating the rate at which the means for transferring the glue substance into the dispensing chamber is transferred and increasing or decreasing the rate by the same percentage to correspond to any increase or decrease in the changes in the actual speed of the aerial vehicle; means for mixing the insect control substance with the glue substance in the dispensing chamber to form a mixture; and means for moving the mixture out the dispensing chamber for disbursement of the mixture into the air and over a designated area. 2. The device of claim 1 wherein the insect control substance is a synthetic insect pheromone flake. 3. The device of claim 1 wherein the means for moving the housing and the dispensing chamber through the air is an aerial vehicle. 4. The device of claim 1 wherein the means for transferring the insect control substance into the dispensing chamber comprises a plurality of feeder ports in the housing, a flake auger contained within a hollow housing situated adjacent to the plurality of feeder ports, and a flake motor, wherein the insect control substance is fed through the plurality of feeder ports and into the hollow housing, the flake auger is rotated by the flake motor for transferring the insect control substance through the hollow housing and into the dispensing chamber. 5. The device of claim 4 wherein the flake motor is a variable speed, stepper motor. 6. The device of claim 1 wherein the means for transferring the glue substance into the dispensing chamber comprises a flexible tube in fluid communication with the glue substance, a pump, and a glue motor, wherein the glue substance is transferred through the flexible tube and into the dispensing chamber by the pump powered by the glue motor. 7. The device of claim 6 wherein the pump is a peristaltic pump. 8. The device of claim 6 wherein the glue motor is a variable speed, stepper motor. 9. The device of claim 1 wherein the means for regulating the rate at which the means for transferring the insect control substance into the dispensing chamber is transferred comprises a computer processor. 10. The device of claim 9 wherein the means for regulating the rate at which the means for transferring the glue substance into the dispensing chamber is transferred comprises a computer processor. 11. The device of claim 1 wherein the means for mixing the insect control substance with the glue substance to form the mixture comprises at least one inlet port on the dispensing chamber, wherein the glue substance is injected into the dispensing chamber through the at least one inlet port for engaging the insect control substance within the dispensing chamber. 12. The device of claim 1 wherein the means for moving the mixture out the dispensing chamber for disbursement of the mixture into the air and over a designated area comprises a mixing auger, a motor, and an exit portal contained in the dispensing chamber, wherein the insect control substance is moved through the dispensing chamber and out the exit portal by the mixing auger rotated by the motor. 13. An aerial application dispersal system, comprising: an aerial vehicle; a housing detachably secured to the aerial vehicle, the housing containing an insect control substance and a glue substance, the insect control substance contained separate and apart from the glue substance; a dispensing chamber; means for moving the insect control substance from the housing and into the dispensing chamber at an insect calibrated rate, the insect calibrated rate based on a predetermined ground speed of the aerial vehicle over a designated area; means for moving the glue substance from the housing and into the dispensing chamber at a glue calibrated rate, the glue calibrated rate based on the predetermined ground speed of the aerial vehicle over the designated area; means for continually determining whether the actual ground speed of the aerial vehicle while in flight over the designated area has increased or decreased in relation to the predetermined speed of the aerial vehicle; means for changing the insect calibrated rate while the aerial vehicle is in flight to increase or decrease the insect calibrated rate by the same percentage in increase or decrease of the actual ground speed of the aerial vehicle in relation to the predetermined ground speed of the aerial vehicle; means for changing the glue calibrated rate while the aerial vehicle is in flight to increase or decrease the glue calibrated rate by the same percentage in increase or decrease of the actual ground speed of the aerial vehicle in relation to the predetermined ground speed of the aerial vehicle; means for mixing the insect control substance and the glue substance to form a mixture; and means for dispensing the mixture from the dispensing chamber and into the air over the designated area with the amount of the mixture changing corresponding to the actual ground speed of the aerial vehicle thereby permitting a substantially consistent dispensing of mixture over the designated area. 14. The device of claim 13 wherein the means for changing the insect calibrated rate while the aerial vehicle is in flight comprises a computer processor. 15. The device of claim 14 wherein the computer processor sends a signal to the means for moving the insect control substance from the housing and into the dispensing chamber changing the insect calibrated rate. 16. The device of claim 14 wherein means for changing the glue calibrated rate while the aerial vehicle is in flight is the same as the means for changing the insect calibrated rate while the aerial vehicle is in flight. 17. The device of claim 13 wherein the means for changing the insect calibrated rate and the glue calibrated rate while the aerial vehicle is in flight comprises manual interaction with an interface unit. 18. A method for dispensing the combination of an insect control substance and a glue substance over a designated area from an aerial vehicle, comprising the steps of: storing the insect control substance and the glue substance separate and apart from one another; moving the insect control substance at a predetermined insect rate to a mixing location, the predetermined insect rate based on a predetermined ground speed of the aerial vehicle over the designated area; moving the glue substance at a predetermined glue rate to the mixing location, the predetermined glue rate based on the predetermined ground speed of the aerial vehicle over the designated area; mixing the insect control substance with the glue substance at the mixing location to form a mixture; dispensing the mixture at a dispensing rate over the designated area from a starting point; continually determining whether the actual ground speed of the aerial vehicle while in flight over the designated area has increased or decreased in relation to the predetermined ground speed of the aerial vehicle; continually changing the predetermined insect rate to a changing insect rate based on the actual ground speed of the aerial vehicle, the changing insect rate defining the increase or decrease in the predetermined insect rate by the same percentage in increase or decrease of the actual ground speed of the aerial vehicle in relation to the predetermined ground speed of the aerial vehicle; continually changing the predetermined glue rate to a changing glue rate based on the actual ground speed of the aerial vehicle, the changing glue rate defining the increase or decrease in the predetermined glue rate by the same percentage in increase or decrease of the actual ground speed of the aerial vehicle in relation to the predetermined ground speed of the aerial vehicle; moving the insect control substance at the changing insect rate to the mixing location; moving the glue substance at the changing glue rate to the mixing location; continually dispensing the mixture at the dispensing rate over the designated area until an ending point is reached, the mixture continually changing to correspond to the actual ground speed of the aerial vehicle permitting an equal dispensing of mixture over the designated area; and stopping the dispensing of the mixture. 19. The method of claim 18 and further comprising the step of calibrating the predetermined insect rate to the predetermined ground speed of the aerial vehicle. 20. The method of claim 18 and further comprising the step of calibrating the predetermined glue rate to the predetermined ground speed of the aerial vehicle.
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