Self clearing tunnel rat trap

Details Self clearing tunnel rat trap Self clearing tunnel rat trap

1998-06-15

1999-07-06

Carone, Michael J.

Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying

Traps

Electrocuting

43 61, A01M 1900, A01M 2312

Patent

active

059184094

ABSTRACT:
The tunnel trap is electrically powered and kills by electrocution. The animal trips two triggers (infrared beams for example), one near each end of the trap, so that the animal is entirely inside the trap when the trap is set off, electrocuting the animal by electric contacts with its head and feet. An elevator then lifts the animal so that it can roll and/or slide out of the trap through an opening in a side of the trap. The triggering allows doors, one at each end opening of the trap, to drop and cover the openings. There are grids on the doors, electrically connected when the doors are down. The animal contacts one door grid or the other as it attempts to escape and electrical current passes from its head to its feet which are on an electrical grid on the floor of the trap. As the elevator rises it lifts the doors to reset them for the next cycle.

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