Enclosed mouse trap
OwnerDean Paul Kiminventor
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Abstract
An enclosed mouse trap consists of a lid-shaped container, a bucket container, a tunnel-shaped bridge, and an outer container. The lid-shaped container has one or two planks with fulcrum fitted on the floor, and it allows mice to falls into the bucket container below. The lid-shaped container has one or two short tunnel-shaped entrances each fitted with a one-way swing door providing an entrance for mice to enter the lid-shape container. Each entrance of the lid-shaped container connects with the tunnel-shaped bridge which has the same one-way swing door fitted within. The outer container has three tunnel-shaped entrances each fitted with the same one-way swing door. The lid-shaped container, the bucket container, and the tunnel-shaped bridge are all fitted within the outer container
Claims14
An enclosed mouse trap is comprised of a lid-shaped container, a bucket container, a tunnel-shaped bridge(s), and an outer container. The lid-shaped container is adapted to fit over a bucket container. The lid-shaped container has one or two short tunnel-shaped entrances and one or two planks with fulcrum. The lid-shaped container also has a roof, a floor, an internal side wall, and an outer side wall. Each of the short tunnel-shaped entrances provides an entrance in which mice can enter the lid-shaped container. Each of the short tunnel-shaped entrances is located between the internal side wall and the outer side wall;
- therefore, it makes the two side walls to be contiguous. Each of the short tunnel-shaped entrances is fitted with a one-way swing door. Each of the short tunnel-shaped entrances fitted with the one-way swing door is called a connector of the lid-shaped container. The lid-shaped container has one or two connectors. Each connector of the lid-shaped container is fitted with the one-way swing door. The one-way swing door in each of the connectors provides one-way entrance for mice to enter the lid-shaped container which has baits within. Each connector of the lid-shaped container connects with a tunnel-shaped bridge. Each tunnel-shaped bridge has the same one-way swing door fitted within its tunnel-shaped structure. The side walls of the lid-shaped container are comprised of the internal side wall and the outer side wall. The internal side wall is located on the floor of the lid-shaped container outlining one or two planks fitting space. The purpose of having the internal side wall is to guide mice to walk on the plank after mice get inside the lid-shaped container via the connector. The internal side wall, the outer side wall, and the connector all together forms the contiguous enclosed wall of the lid-shaped container along with the roof and the floor covering except one or two planks fitting space. The lid-shaped container has one or two planks with fulcrum fitted on the floor depending on whether it has one or two connectors. Each plank has step-like features along its edges. The outer container has three tunnel-shaped entrances each fitted with the same one-way swing door found in the connectors and the tunnel-shaped bridges. The lid-shaped container, the bucket container, and the tunnel-shaped bridges are all fitted within the outer container. Each one-way swing door in the tunnel-shaped entrances of the outer container, the tunnel-shaped bridges, and the connectors allows mice to enter each stage of traps. At the same time, each of the same one-way swing doors prevents mice from escaping each corresponding stage of traps. The first stage of the enclosed mouse trap is mice entering the inside of the outer container via going through one of the three tunnel-shaped entrances fitted on three side walls of the outer container. The second stage of the enclosed mouse trap is the mice getting in and going up the tunnel-shaped bridge from the atrium of the outer container. The third stage of the enclosed mouse trap is mice entering the lid-shaped container via the connector and then walking on the plank with fulcrum fitted on the floor of the lid-shaped container while guided by the internal side wall. As mice advance toward the baits, the plank tilts;
- and mice fall into a bucket container below.
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