Fishing – trapping – and vermin destroying – Vermin destroying
Patent
1986-10-23
1991-12-17
Rowan, Kurt
Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying
Vermin destroying
43110, A01M 2308, A01M 110
Patent
active
050725416
ABSTRACT:
Methods and apparatus for destroying snails avoid a cleanup problem by causing live snails to cannibalize snail carcasses. To this end, snail carcasses are provided in a trap which is made accessible to live snails for consumption of the snail carcasses. The trap preferably is of a collapsible type or is otherwise provided with first volume permitting entry of live snails into the trap, and is reducible to a second volume insufficient to accommodate live snails, whereby such live snails are crushed. Further live snails are then permitted to cannibalize the crushed snails by restoring the trap to its first volume for entry of the further live snails into the trap. The first volume may be reduced to the second volume against a bias, which is employed to restore the trap to its first volume. Operation of these methods and apparatus may be tied in with a sprinkler system or other apparatus for providing a pressurized medium from time to time. In that case, the live snails may be crushed in the trap with that pressurized medium or the trap may be actuated from time to time with pressure from water applied to a sprinkler system.
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