A trap and a method for using a trap
AssigneeAnticimex Innovation Center A/S
InventorPreben FRITZBØGER
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Abstract
A trap for exterminating pests, preferably rats in sewers, said trap comprising: a trap housing and a bait mechanism. The trap also has a trigger mechanism capable of detecting the presence of a rat and releasing a killer mechanism when the rat is within the total range of the killer mechanism; and a trapper mechanism capable of detaining an animal. The trap may also convey a killed animal from a first position, in which discharge of the killed animal will not entail that it is conveyed away by water running through the sewer, to a second position, in which discharge of the killed rat will entail that it is conveyed away by water running through the sewer.
Claims20
A trap for exterminating animals causing damage, preferably rats in sewers, said trap comprising:
- a trap housing;
- a bait mechanism;
- a trigger mechanism capable of detecting the presence of a rat and releasing a killer mechanism when the rat is within the total range of the killer mechanism;
- a trapper mechanism capable of detaining a rat;
- a conveyor mechanism capable of transporting a killed rat from a first position, in which discharge of the killed rat will not entail that it is conveyed away by water running through the sewer, to a second position, in which discharge of the killed rat will entail that it is conveyed away by water running through the sewer;
- a programmable control unit connected to and adapted to:
- the trigger mechanism, the killer mechanism, the trapper mechanism, and the discharge mechanism to the effect that the control mechanism activates the trapper mechanism such that it detains a rat when the latter is detected by the trigger mechanism within the total range of the killer mechanism, said control unit also activating the killer mechanism and the conveyor mechanism to the effect that trapped and killed rats are conveyed from the first position to the second position;
- a unit for activating the trap.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.