Rodent trap
AssigneeAnticimex Innovation Center A/S
InventorsRasmus Skou Bjerre, Kristian Kisling-Møller
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Abstract
A rodent trap and a system or network of such traps. The trap is a spring-loaded strike rat trap including at least one spring, a housing, at least one striker bar, at least one arming bar, at least one trigger plate and at least one trigger. The spring is configured for biasing the bars moving them from one position, where the arming bar and trigger plate is releasably held by the trigger and in contact with a ready indicator to indicate that the spring-loaded strike trap is armed, into at least one other position where the movement of each bar is stopped, after the spring-loaded strike trap has been triggered releasing the bars.
Claims28
A rodent trap comprising:
- a housing;
- a striker bar;
- an arming bar;
- a trigger plate arranged to be moved by a rodent;
- a trigger, said trigger releasably holding said arming bar and said trigger plate in a first configuration of said rodent trap with said arming bar in contact with a ready indicator to indicate that said rodent trap is charged, and
- a spring;
- said spring biasing the striker bar and the arming bar to move to a second configuration of said rodent trap;
- wherein the striker bar, in the second configuration, contacts a firing indicator;
- wherein the trigger plate is configured for engaging said firing indicator to displace said firing indicator out of said contact with said striker bar when a rodent moves said trigger plate.
A system/network of rodent traps, the system/network comprising:
- a first rodent trap;
- and
- a second rodent trap comprising:
- a housing;
- a striker bar;
- an arming bar;
- a trigger plate arranged to be moved by a rodent;
- a trigger, said trigger releasably holding said arming bar and said trigger plate in a first configuration of said rodent trap with said arming bar in contact with a ready indicator to indicate that said rodent trap is charged, and
- a spring,
- said spring biasing the striker bar and the arming bar to move to a second configuration of said rodent trap;
- wherein the striker bar, in the second configuration, contacts a firing indicator;
- wherein the trigger plate is configured for engaging said firing indicator to displace said firing indicator out of contact with said striker bar when a rodent moves said trigger plate;
- wherein the first rodent trap and the second rodent trap are operatively connected to cooperate for eliminating or at least reducing or at least minimizing a population of rodents;
- and
- wherein the first rodent trap and the second rodent trap are configured to form a MESH network in which at least the second rodent trap continuously monitors presence of water or another conductive fluid and at least the second rodent trap is configured for registering if existing water or another conductive fluid are at/over a certain/predetermined level (Δ1) by use of indicators that are conductively connected forming a closed circuit when the water or the another conductive fluid has reached the certain/predetermined level (Δ1).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.