DE195386C - - Google Patents

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- M 195386 CLASS 45 Ie. GROUP

HERMANN EHRLER in KOMMINGEN, Baden.

Automatic fly trap with evenly on the circumference of the catcher

distributed seesaws.

Patented in the German Empire on January 3, 1907.

Accordingly, the present invention is a Fiiegenfalle whose fishing device occurs by the weight of the fly in the manner in effect that it will be closed after the entry of the fly so long until the fly occurred in the interior of the ¹ case, to which the arresting device automatically readjusts to readiness for fishing. The trap offers over the known

ίο the advantage that without complicated facilities, only through the arrangement of the trap box attached to a double-armed balanced lever, the latter only by the weight of the fly in such a position to the surrounding one Container is brought so that the fly can only get inside the trap, whereupon the now unloaded lever returns to the standby position.

In the drawing, the trap is shown in three figures.

FIG. 1 shows a longitudinal section through the trap, FIG. 2 shows a horizontal section along the line AB in FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 shows a section through a trap element.

The automatic fly trap consists of a common container a which accommodates several individual trap elements b and whose size corresponds to the number of trap elements to be accommodated. The body accommodating the individual trap elements is made up of several nested parts.

The main part α takes in its lower

Split up the individual trap elements b , which are arranged on the outer wall in corresponding spaces. This lower part with the trap elements is covered by a cover c , which bears partition walls d and d ¹ which are specific for each trap element and are described in more detail below. Furthermore, a loophole e is arranged for each element, through which the fly enters the upper part of the trap, which is formed by a container f of known type used for drowning the flies. The bottom of this water container J 'is funnel-shaped and provided at the top with a loophole f ¹ for the flies. The flies that have entered through the loophole f ¹ are now in the lower upper part of the trap, where their wing strength soon becomes weak and they fall into the container f provided with water. The whole assembled flycatcher is covered by a wire gauze ο. Like. Material made cover α ^λ covered. In order to attract the flies, a funnel-shaped container a ² , which is covered with wire gauze and which is used to hold bait, can be arranged around the trap.

The main constituent part of the individual trap elements b is an almost balanced double-armed lever g, the. is brought out of equilibrium by the weight of the fly, as a result of which the lever arm g ¹ carrying the trap box h sinks so low that the trap entrance i is closed and only the path to the inside of the trap for the fly

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remains free. On the outer wall of the trap, two walls k, k ^{1, which} run parallel inward and reach up to the cover c , adjoin. Between these walls, the two-armed lever g is rotatably mounted in corresponding eye bearings /, I ^{1 attached to the walls.} The widened lever arm g ^x lying between the walls k, k ^l closes the tentacle arm so that it can move downwards. Is the

ίο trap ready to be caught (Fig. i), the catching box h, whose sides lying in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the lever are open, is at the top, carrying lever arm g ^l , so that the small catching box h with its open side is at the top

opening i located in the outer wall is exactly opposite. The rear side of the trap box is formed by a corresponding wall-rf attached to the cover c , which can also be used to attach attractants m, such as honey or the like. If an insect gets into the box through the trap opening, the lever is brought out of its equilibrium position and the part provided with the trap box sinks down. In this low position (Fig. 3) the outward opening of the trap box h is closed by the lower part of the outer wall, while the rear opening of the trap box h is now released by the wall d that previously closed it off. Another wall d ¹ reaching down to the axis of rotation prevents the fly from escaping to the lower part. The fly can therefore only get into the upper part of the trap through an opening e in the cover c. The fly will therefore follow the path indicated by arrows (Fig. 3). As soon as the lever is no longer influenced by the weight of the fly, it returns to its original position and the game can begin again.

Claims (1)

Patent claim: Automatic fly trap with rockers evenly distributed around the circumference of the catcher, characterized in that on one side of each rocker (g) there is a catch box (h) which is open on both sides, the inner opening of which in the rest position of the rocker through a fixed wall (d) of the Catcher housing is closed, and through the outer opening of which the fly can slip into the catcher box (h) , whereupon it sinks so far into the catcher housing that the exit to the outside is closed off by the outer wall of the catcher housing and the inner opening of the catcher box (h) is exposed, through which the fly arrives at the funnel-shaped collecting space ff) , which is known per se, whereupon the rocker returns to its rest position and now closes off the inside of the catching space from the outside through the bottom of the trap box. 1 sheet of drawings.