Lobster trap/animal cage construction
OwnerCharles A. Melansoninventor
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Abstract
A wire trap or animal cage having walls which are attached together by crimped clips at spaced locations between the adjacent walls of the trap or cage. The clips have markings thereon to indicate ownership of the trap. The marks may be put on the clips as they are clinched together around the wires, or the marks may be put on the clips before the clips are crimped around the wires.
Claims10
A trap or cage having a plurality of wire mesh side walls each having a peripheral wire defining the edge of each wall;
- a plurality of crimped securement clips spaced along portions of adjacent peripheral edge wires holding said wall portions securely together;
- at least one of said crimped securement clips having indicia thereon, to indicate ownership of said trap.
A method of marking ownership of and securing together a plurality of wire walls of a trap or cage, comprising the steps of:
- providing identification indicia onto the blade or anvil of a clinching tool;
- arranging peripheral wires of adjacent side walls of a trap or cage between the blade and an anvil of a clinching tool;
- supplying an unclinched clip into position on the adjacent peripheral wires of the side walls of a trap or cage;
- pressing said blade and anvil of said clinching tool together, so as to wrap said clip around said adjacent wires to secure them together and to simultaneously force the markings on said blade or anvil into the surface of said clip as it is clinched.
A method of identifying and securing together a plurality of wire walls of a trap or cage, comprising the steps of:
- arranging identification marks on a clinchable clip;
- arranging said clinchable clip around a plurality of wires which comprise a portion of said trap or cage;
- crimping said clinchable clip about said plurality of wires to secure them together and to provide identifying means on such assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.