Hand-Held Rodent Trap Setting Devices
OwnerVasile OROSinventor
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Abstract
A hand-held rodent trap setting device, or rat trap scoop, includes a base supporting a rodent trap, a handle extending generally in or above a major plane of the base, a clamping arm that clamps down the rodent trap to the platform when engaged, and an actuator coupled to clamping arm and configured to clamp down and release the clamping arm. An elongated handle facilitates placing the rodent trap in relatively inaccessible locations. An elongated rearward linking arm assembly couples the actuator to the clamping arm, and facilitates engaging/releasing the clamping arm from a distance, further facilitating placing the rodent trap in inaccessible locations.
Claims18
A hand-held rodent trap-setting device including:
- a base for supporting a platform of a rodent trap;
- a handle coupled to the base and extending generally in or above a major plane of the base, for allowing a user to hold the trap-setting device;
- a clamping arm coupled to the base and configured to contact a top surface of the rodent trap platform to clamp down the rodent trap platform onto the base;
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- an actuator coupled to the base and to the clamping arm, operable by the user, and configured to engage and/or release the clamping arm onto/from the rodent trap platform.
A method of setting a rodent trap, comprising:
- holding a handle of a hand-held rodent trap-setting device in a first hand, the handle being coupled to a base of the trap-setting device and extending generally in a major plane of the base;
- mounting a rodent trap onto the base;
- engaging an actuator coupled to the base and to a clamping arm of the trap-setting device to clamp down the rodent trap onto the base using the clamping arm, the clamping arm contacting a top surface of a platform of the rodent trap;
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- setting the rodent trap while clamped down onto the base.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.