Trap assembly for birds
OwnerClaude A. Krensoninventor
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Abstract
A trap assembly designed to catch and maintain birds, preferably pigeons, within a storage space of the trap assembly without injuring or harming the birds during the trapping or storing procedure. A closure and entrance of the assembly are cooperatively structured to allow passage of a bird through the entrance and into engagement with the closure element which will be displaced upon such engagement into a non-covering relation to the entrance allowing the bird to pass therethrough but preventing any bird collected within the storage space to exit the entrance thereof.
Claims14
A bird trap assembly designed to capture and concurrently retain a plurality of birds without the harming thereof, said assembly comprising:
- (a) a housing including a roof portion and a wall portion connected to one another and collectively surrounding and at least partially defining a storage space for captured birds,
- (b) said wall portion comprising a plurality of side walls disposed in laterally surrounding relation to said storage space,
- (c) said roof portion secured to an upper peripheral portion of said plurality of side walls and disposed in overlying relation to said storage space and defining an upper boundary thereof,
- (d) support means for engaging and supporting said housing on a supporting surface and comprising a flange secured to and extending substantially continuously along the length of a major portion of a lower periphery of said wall portion, said flange further extending into said storage space a distance sufficient to allow a bird to stand thereon,
- (e) an entrance formed in one of said plurality of walls and dimensioned to allow a bird to walk therethrough,
- (f) closure means movably mounted adjacent said entrance for allowing and preventing, respectively, passage of a bird into and out of said storage space,
- (g) said closure means comprising a closure element movably connected to said housing in normally covering relation to said entrance, and
- (h) said closure element configured and disposed to engage a bird and move therewith from a covering to a non-covering position as the bird passes into said storage space.
A bird trap assembly designed to capture and concurrently retain a plurality of birds without the harming thereof, said assembly comprising:
- (a) a housing including a roof portion and a wall portion connected to one another and collectively surrounding and at least partially defining a storage space for captured birds,
- (b) said wall portion comprising a plurality of side walls disposed in laterally surrounding relation to said storage space,
- (c) said roof portion secured to an upper peripheral portion of said plurality of side walls and disposed in overlying relation to said storage space and defining an upper boundary thereof,
- (d) support means comprising an elongated flange secured to a lower periphery of said wall portion and extending along a major portion of its length, said flange extending inwardly into said storage space from said wall portion a distance sufficient to allow a bird to stand thereon, said flange having opposite free end portions each terminating at an entrance formed in one of said plurality of walls and dimensioned to allow a bird to walk therethrough, said flange having said opposite free end portions thereof being disposed in spaced relation to one another on opposite sides of said entrance,
- (e) said housing further comprising a substantially open flooring surrounded by said support means and disposed and configured to have a major portion of said storage space overlying and communicating with the support surface on which said housing is positioned,
- (f) said housing comprising said open flooring portion exposed directly to the supporting surface and directly communicating with said open flooring of said storage space and housing:
- (g) closure means movably mounted adjacent said entrance for allowing and preventing, respectively, passage of a bird into and out of said storage space,
- (h) said closure means comprising a closure element movably connected to said housing in normally covering relation to said entrance, and
- (i) said closure element configured and disposed to engage a bird and move therewith from a covering to a non-covering position as the bird passes into said storage space.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.