Rodent trap

Abstract

Readily assemblable two-part trap for killing mice and other rodents generally without mutilation including, as a preferably hand-holdable and manually graspable captive combination, a unitary resilient frame having an intermediate, e.g. generally U-shaped, bowed portion terminating in a pair of opposed rodent-gripping end jaws movable with respect to each other between a spaced apart cocked position and a closed position and normally resiliently biased to closed position under sufficient snap force to grip a rodent disposed therebetween, and a rodent-trippable unitary spacer trigger operatively interposed inter-engagingly with the frame, preferably in captive rocking relation therewith, to permit unhindered relative movement of the jaws with respect thereto between such positions, and having a rockingly releasable slip catch portion arranged for temporarily maintaining the jaws in cocked position against the biasing force of the frame and a cooperating bait-carrier tripper portion arranged in the immediate vicinity of the jaws and accessible to a rodent thereat for rockingly tripping the spacer trigger to release the slip catch portion and shut the trap, e.g. such that the rodent is caught by the jaws at the throat, and killed, but not mutilated, whereupon the trap may be used as a portable carrier for disposing of the rodent without the user having to touch the dead pest.

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