Animal trap disposable anchor driver
OwnerCarlis Glen Stephensinventor
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Abstract
An animal trap (T) has an attached chain (C) and anchor (A). A driver (10) for driving the anchor into the ground has a shaft (12) with upper and lower sections (12A, 12B), the upper section having a smaller diameter than the lower section. The bottom (14) of the shaft is contoured to mate with the anchor. A handle (16) facilitates removal of the shaft from the ground after the anchor is driven into place. The handle has a sleeve (18) slidably fitting over the upper section of the shaft and an arm (22) extending outwardly from the sleeve for grasping by a user of the driver. A cap (24) fits onto the upper end of the shaft and is struck by a tool used to drive the shaft into the ground and set the anchor in place.
Claims13
In an animal trap to which is attached one end of a chain with an anchor affixed to the other end thereof for anchoring the trap in the ground at a desired trap location and preventing movement of the trap from that location, a driver being used to stake the anchor in the ground so to fix the trap in place, the driver having a shaft a bottom end of which is contoured to mate with the anchor driven into the ground using the driver and remaining in the ground after the driver is removed from the ground, and a cap attached to the driver shaft at its upper end, the cap being struck by a tool wielded by the user to drive the shaft into the ground and set the anchor in place:
- a handle for use by the person using the driver to assist the user in removing the driver from the ground after the anchor been driven into the ground, the handle including a sleeve having an inner diameter slightly larger than the diameter of the shaft for the sleeve to be slidably received on the shaft and reciprocally move along the shaft
- wherein the handle can form an interlocking relationship with the cap to prevent rotation of the sleeve.
In an animal trap having an attached chain and anchor for anchoring the trap in the ground at a desired location to prevent movement of the trap from that location, an improvement to a driver used to stake the anchor in the ground so to fix the trap in place, the improvement comprising:
- a driver shaft having an upper section and a lower section, the lower section of the shaft having a first diameter and the upper section of the shaft having a second and reduced diameter;
- a bottom of the second section of the shaft being contoured to mate with an anchor to be driven into the ground with the driver, the anchor remaining in the ground after being driven into the ground and the driver extricated from the ground;
- a cap fitting onto the shaft at the upper end of the upper section of the shaft to form a top of the driver and having a circumferential flange depending beneath the bottom of the cap and extending partially around an underside of the cap, the cap being struck by a tool wielded by the user to drive the shaft into the ground and set the anchor in place;
- and,
- a handle for use by the person using the driver to facilitate the user removing the driver from the ground after the anchor been driven into the ground, the handle including a sleeve shorter in length than the upper section of the shaft and having an inner diameter by which the sleeve is slidably received on the upper section,
- the sleeve moving between an underside of the cap, to mate with the circumferential flange, and abutting against a shoulder formed between the upper and lower sections of the shaft, the handle further including an arm extending outwardly from the sleeve for grasping by the user of the driver whereby the user pulling upwardly on the arm lifts the driver out of the ground.
In an animal trap having an attached chain and anchor for anchoring the trap in the ground at a desired location to prevent movement of the trap from that location, an improvement to a driver used to stake the anchor in the ground so to fix the trap in place, the improvement comprising:
- a driver shaft of a uniform diameter along its length, a bottom of the shaft contoured to mate with an anchor to be driven into the ground with the driver, the anchor remaining in the ground after being driven into the ground and the driver extricated from the ground;
- a cap fitting onto the upper end of the shaft to form a top of the driver, the cap being struck by a tool wielded by the user to drive the shaft into the ground and set the anchor in place;
- and,
- a handle for use by the person using the driver to facilitate the user removing the driver from the ground after the anchor been driven into the ground, the handle including a sleeve having an inner diameter slightly larger than the diameter of the shaft by which the sleeve is slidably received on the shaft
- wherein the handle can form an interlocking relationship with the cap to prevent rotation of the sleeve.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.