Fishing – trapping – and vermin destroying – Traps – Jaw
Patent
1987-01-06
1988-11-01
Crosby, Gene P.
Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying
Traps
Jaw
43 82, 43 93, A01M 2326
Patent
active
047809841
ABSTRACT:
An animal trap adapted for outdoor use to catch relatively small game animals and particularly adapted to be attached to a tree, post, or the like upstanding support and to be used independently of the height of snow and of other unfavorable ground conditions. This animal trap has a fixed jaw and a movable jaw. A bracket with arms projects away from the plane of the fixed jaw. The movable jaw is pivoted to an operative position angularly upwardly relative to the fixed jaw. A detent lever is pivoted between the arms of the bracket with an outer end forming a catch portion intercepting the movable jaw and holding it in operative position. A pair of spring wires operatively bias the movable jaw and cooperate with a chain to attach the trap to a tree, post, or the like, and the bait is attached to the detent lever to pivot the latter and release the movable jaw that then closes against the fixed jaw under the action of the spring wires.
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