Two door animal trap

An animal trap comprising a base, a roof, a pair of opposite side walls for closing opposite sides of the trap and a pair of opposite end frame closures at opposite ends of the trap, at least one of said end frame closures including an animal access door slidable in the end frame closure between an elevated open position allowing an animal to enter the trap and a lower closed position trapping the animal inside of the trap, a trigger mechanism on the roof of the trap for releasably holding the door in the elevated position and a release device connected to the trigger mechanism for moving the trigger mechanism to release the door and allow the door to slide under gravity to the closed position when the release device is activated, the trigger mechanism comprising a movable cam member on the roof of the trap connected to the release device, a lengthwise movable rod on the roof of the trap extending between the door and the movable cam member, the rod having an outer end for engaging in an aperture in a bottom part of the door to hold the door in the elevated position and the rod having an inner end for engaging on a cam surface of the movable cam member to hold the rod in an outer position wherein the outer end of the rod engages in said aperture, the trigger mechanism further including a spring urging the rod inwardly towards the cam member so as to disengage the outer end of the rod from said aperture and release the door to slide closed under gravity when the inner end of the rod is disengaged from said cam surface by movement of the cam member caused by activation of the release device.

A collapsible animal trap comprising a cage including a base, a pair of opposite side walls, a pair of end members, and a roof together defining a housing, each side wall comprising an upper panel and a lower panel, the upper panel being hinged to one side of the roof, the lower panel being hinged to one side of the base, hinge connections pivotally interconnecting the upper and lower panels of each side wall whereby the side walls can fold inwardly about the hinge connections concertina-wise to collapse the roof onto the base, the end members being pivotally connected to elements at opposite ends of the housing, respectively, for pivotal movement between folded positions in which the cage is collapsed and the end members are substantially flat inside of the housing to permit inward folding of the side walls, and unfolded positions in which the cage is erected and inward folding of the side walls about the hinge connections is precluded,

• at least one of the end frames including an animal access door, said animal access door being movable between an open position and a closed position,
• and a release device connectable to the trigger mechanism for moving the trigger mechanism to release the door and allow the door to move to the closed position when the release device is activated by an animal on entering the trap,
• the release device comprising a trip pan pivotally supported on the base inside of the housing with portions of the pivotal support located outside of the housing, the trigger mechanism including portions located outside of the housing, and the respective portions of the pivotal support of the trip pan and the trigger mechanism located outside of the housing being operatively connected to each other by an actuating means comprising a flexible cable extending outside of the housing.