US 4,425,731 AGranted

Disposable rodent trap

AssigneeFarnam Companies, Inc.

InventorJoseph Orlando

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Abstract

A disposable rodent trap is fabricated in the form of a generally wedge-shaped enclosure from a single blank of pliable, bendable material. The right triangular ends each have an access opening formed through them at the corner adjacent the base. The back side wall is hinged at the top with the cover portion of the wedge and is bent inwardly to terminate in a moveable floor which has a transverse dimension less than the width of the main base of the trap. The moveable floor has a coating of adhesive material on it for trapping rodents. A provision is made for pulling the moveable floor toward the narrow interior portion of the wedge after a rodent is trapped to move the moveable floor and the back side wall to a position where the side wall is forward of the openings in the end walls for disposal of the trap and the rodent entrapped therein.

Claims11

Dependent claims

A trap for rodents comprising an enclosure including in combination:

a main base member;
first and second spaced-apart upstanding end walls attached to said base member;
a cover member attached to said first and second end walls and overlying said base member;
a side wall extending between said first and second end walls and said cover member and said base member with the upper edge thereof hingedly attached to said cover member, with an opening in said first end wall adjacent the junction of said side wall and said base member;
a moveable floor member overlying said base member in a first position adjacent the opening in said first end wall, the lower edge of said side wall being hingedly attached to said moveable floor member, wherein in the first position of said moveable floor member said side wall extends substantially vertically from the edge of said main base member to said cover member;
and
means for moving said moveable floor member from said first position to a second position offset from the opening in said first end wall.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.