Fishing – trapping – and vermin destroying – Traps – Impaling or smiting
Patent
1994-04-20
1996-03-26
Rowan, Kurt
Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying
Traps
Impaling or smiting
43 61, A01M 2330
Patent
active
055010318
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The invention relates to a trap for mice or the like animal and comprising a spring-loaded, releasable displacement member supported by a frame with an opening for the receiving of the head of the animal, said displacement member being connected to the frame by means of a securing line extending within reach for the animal in the frame inside the opening.
BACKGROUND ART
Traps of the above type are known which involve a difficult and to some persons a repulsive operation in removing the killed animal and resetting the trap. Other traps are relatively difficult to clean and hit the animal rather arbitrarily and sometimes with the effect that the animal is not killed instantaneously. At worst, the animal is not killed at all.
DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The object of the invention is to provide a trap operating in a reliable manner while simultaneously being inexpensive to manufacture, whereby it is suited as a trap being disposable with the dead animal.
The trap according to the invention is characterised in that the frame is formed in one piece and comprises a front wall, in which the opening is placed and on the outside of which the displacement member is arranged so as to be displaceable transverse to the opening, that the displacement member is spring-loaded by means of rubber bands or elastic bands fastened to the frame and protected on the front side of the front wall by covering parts formed integral with the frame, and that the frame with the displacement member is loosely placeable in a surrounding box with a closed rear wall, the opening of the frame facing an opening in the box.
Such a trap is easy to manufacture and to set, and the frame with the displacement member is arranged inside the box together with a suitable bait. When an animal has been trapped, the entire trap can, if desired, be destructed or removed together with the animal without involving substantial costs. On account of the opening for receiving the head of the animal and the ability of the displacement member to be displaced transverse to said opening when the animal gnaws the securing line in two in order to reach the bait, the animal is killed by an exact stroke breaking its nake instantaneously. A sufficiently strong stroke is ensured by a suitable choice of rubber bands.
A particularly simple embodiment of the displacement member is according to the invention ensured by said member being a straight bar of plastics with means for the fastening of the rubber bands at each end.
The displacement member may furthermore according to the invention be formed integral with the securing line, and means may be provided for fastening the free end of the securing line to the frame, whereby the displacement member is fastened to the frame in a particularly easy manner during the mounting procedure. In this connection it is particularly advantageous when the free end of the securing line according to the invention comprises an integrally formed expansion, and when the frame comprises a corresponding recess for the fastening of the securing line.
In order to facilitate the fastening of a bait, means may according to the invention be formed integral with the frame.
Guide rails may according to the invention be provided on the front wall of the frame, said guide rails engaging corresponding grooves in the displacement member. As a result it is ensured that the displacement member moves in the desired direction directly towards and transverse to the opening in the front wall.
According to the invention it is particularly preferred that the frame comprises a plane base plate supporting a front wall-forming plate-shaped member with plate-shaped supporting walls formed perpendicular to said plate-shaped member and arranged on the back of the front wall.
Moreover according to the invention grooves may be provided on the bottom side of the base plate for receiving the rubber bands, and projections for the fastening of the rubber bands may be formed integral with the end of the base plate opposite the front wall and at the en
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patent: 2148813 (1939-02-01), Hosmer
patent: 2603029 (1952-07-01), Anderson
patent: 3362100 (1968-01-01), Winkler
patent: 4766692 (1988-08-01), Shurden
Molgaard Erik
Rowan Kurt
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