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US 3,940,876 AGranted
Mousetrap
OwnerMichael Frank Zaccairainventor
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Abstract
A safe animal trap including a bait chamber for carrying bait to attract the animal to be trapped; a hole in the bait chamber sized to admit the animal to be trapped; an access member having an elongated passage for communicating with the hole, the passage proportioned to restrict entry into the chamber, the passage being sufficiently wide to permit movement therethrough of the animal and being at least as long as it is wide; and means for engaging the access member with the bait chamber.
Claims2
A safe animal trap comprising a bait chamber for carrying solid poison bait to attract the animal to be trapped;
- a hole in said bait chamber sized to admit the animal to be trapped;
- an access block having at least one flat surface for stably stationing said trap, said block having an elongate passage through it, generally parallel to said surface, for communicating with said hole, said passage proportioned to be significantly longer than it is wide to restrict entry to said chambeer, said passage being sufficiently wide to permit movement therethrough of the animal;
- and means for engaging said access block with said bait chamber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.