Fishing – trapping – and vermin destroying – Traps – Choking or squeezing
Patent
1993-02-26
1996-05-14
Rowan, Kurt
Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying
Traps
Choking or squeezing
43 77, 43 81, 43 82, A01M 2324
Patent
active
055156428
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to a trap, which preferably is meant for small animals doing harm, such as mice, and comprises a support for bait and a framework, a base, a frame or similar, which is arranged to be able to hold a setting element of a material able to be tightened or an elastic material, and further a trigger, which is connected with the said element and in the trap arranged at a distance from the bait-support. The trap is arranged to be able to take a first, resting, position and at least a second, tightened, position.
There is a need of a new trap, which is simpler to handle and set, can be cleared of a trapped animal in an easier way and reduces or eliminates the risk of infections at the same time as the trap will be kind to animals by the fact that killing can be done rapidly or immediately, i.e. without any risk that the animal will suffer. Besides, a trap should be able to be produced in a simple way and at a low cost.
Known traps of the kind in question are often difficult to handle and set for everybody and have generally unsatisfactory function, especially in reutilization as the trap is deformed when used, whereby it can be almost impossible to set and loses the capacity to kill the animal resulting in unnecessarily suffering. Furthermore, the traps are often unpleasant to clear as they deform and often also puncture the animal. These inconveniences together with the fact that the traps are not weather-resistant and neither can be cleaned in a satisfactory way make them unsuitable as trap means for vermin nevertheless as regards the risk of infections. Thus, it has been shown that, for example, mice who have consumed poison does not have been killed in a trap but succeeded in escaping from the trap as well and have moved to watercourses or wells before they have died, whereby risks of poisoning have arised for other animals and for people. Such traps consist of the common hit traps with a base plate of wood and a releaseable tightening bow. Such a trap needs to be cleaned with carefulness after use, which, however, is not easy to carry out. It has been proposed to replace the base plate of wood in these traps with a base plate of plastic material but the handling and the function of the traps have not been materially simplified and improved respectively, as well as neither the hygienic conditions.
A trap in accordance with the invention fulfils, however, the requirements made while, at the same time, the disadvantages of said known traps are eliminated. Thus, the trap is simple to handle and to set, to clear as well as the trapped animal will not be deformed or in another way be destroyed when trapped. Besides, the killing is totally bloodless. The fact is that the trap is shaped with regard to the anatomy of the vermin in question by that the trap and a setting element are shaped and dimensioned in such a way that the animal immediately is hit unconscious when the trap is released simultaneously as the vertebral column is broken at or after atlas, which leads to an assured and immediate killing of the animal. It has also been shown that the trap when it releases present a shock effect for the animal, who therefore never grasp the situation. As the killing is clean and the animal will not be deformed when it is killed, the trap is easy to examine and empty and the person examining the trap does not need to suffer of unpleasant sight and be plastered with dirt notwithstanding the fact that it concerns a mechanical working trap. As the trap certainly kill the animal and in a clean way and without deformation, the risks to spread infections and poisoning are also eliminated. Furthermore, the trap is easy to clean and is also possible to sterilize, if it is necessary. Besides, the trap is simple to manufacture and with a minimum of manual handling and assemblage, can be shaped of few parts or can consists of only two parts and therefore, the trap can be produced at a low cost, especially in larger series production. The trap is shaped of such materials that it hardly is worn out or is
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