Method and apparatus for controlling pest animals
AssigneeCatch Data Ltd.
InventorsMark KREHEL, Ken GAUTHIER, Joe ABERBROMBIE
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Abstract
An apparatus for controlling animal pests comprises a housing having a passage extending into the housing from an entrance, an impacting member movable across the passage and a planar sensor spaced apart from the kill bar by a predetermined distance along the passage towards the entrance, the planar sensor configured to sense the presence of the animal pest across a sensing plane across the passage wherein the impacting member is operable to be released to rapidly move across the passage when the planar sensor indicates the presence of the animal pest as passed through the sensing plane.
Claims25
An apparatus for controlling animal pests comprising:
- a housing having a passage extending into the housing from an entrance;
- an impacting member movable across the passage;
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- a planar sensor spaced apart from the impacting member by a predetermined distance along the passage towards the entrance, the planar sensor configured to sense the presence of the animal pest across a sensing plane across the passage wherein the planar sensor defines a sensing plane in the form of a curtain that is perpendicular across the passage at a predefined distance from the impacting member,
- wherein the impacting member is operable to be released to rapidly move across the passage when the planar sensor indicates the presence of the animal pest as passed through the sensing plane.
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A method for controlling animal pests comprising:
- providing a housing having a passage extending thereinto from an entrance;
- sensing with a first planar sensor the presence of the animal pest at a sensing plane extending across the passage with an impacting member between the first planar sensor and the entrance;
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- causing the impacting member to rapidly move across the passage in response to the first planar sensor detecting the presence of the animal pest at the sensing plane, wherein the sensing plane is in the form of a curtain that is perpendicular across the passage at a predefined distance from the impacting member wherein the impacting member is located at a distance from the sensing plane towards the entrance selected to correspond to the distance between the nose and the neck of the animal pest.
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