JP7391288B2 - wild animal capture equipment - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a device for capturing harmful animals, and more particularly to a device for capturing wild animals whose purpose is to reliably capture only large target animals.

In a typical device for capturing harmful animals such as wild boars and deer, an entry opening is formed in the capture cage body, and a trap door body that can move up and down to open and close the entry opening is provided in the capture cage body. Generally, when an animal enters the cage through the opening, an operating mechanism is provided that causes the trapdoor to fall to close the entry opening.

With the above-mentioned general trapping device, all individuals are captured regardless of the size of the target animal.

However, in the work of capturing harmful animals, it is sometimes necessary to avoid capturing small animals and only capture large animals, but the above-mentioned trapping devices cannot meet such requests.

Therefore, a trapping system as described in Patent Document 1 has been proposed. This wild animal capture system consists of a surveillance camera on the field side that can take pictures of the inside and surroundings of the enclosure trap, a display device that displays the captured images to a distant observer, and a wireless connection between the observer and the scene. It is equipped with a transceiver that can communicate, and while monitoring the display device, when a large individual wild animal enters the enclosure, the observer can remotely control the enclosure using wireless communication. The structure is such that the closing part can be operated.

Japanese Patent Application Publication No. 2012-55232

The invention described in the above-mentioned patent document requires constant monitoring and has a problem in terms of practicality. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide an animal capturing device that does not require monitoring and can reliably capture only a large target animal with a simple structure.

The structure of the present invention that achieves the above object is as follows.

(1) The invention according to claim 1 provides an apparatus for capturing wild animals in which a cage body is formed with an entry opening and a door body that can open and close the entry opening is formed in the cage body. is provided so as to be able to swing relative to the cage body using its upper end as a fulcrum, and is activated when the door swings toward the inside of the cage, thereby preventing the door from swinging toward the outside of the cage. A closing mechanism was provided, and the trigger member constituting the closing mechanism was configured to be able to be installed at any height.

(2) The invention as set forth in claim 2 is the wild animal trapping device as set forth in claim 1, in which the closing mechanism is comprised of a plate member rotatably attached to the outside of the entry opening of the cage body; a stopper member provided on the outside of the entry opening and which stops the rotation of the plate material at a position where the plate material stops swinging of the door body; a trigger member comprising a bracket, a clamping plate, a tightening tool, and a clip; It is composed of a string material that connects the member and the plate material.

How the present invention configured as described above functions and solves the problems will be outlined with reference to the drawings. In each figure, U means upward, D means downward, R means rightward, and L means leftward.

In the present invention, the door body 20 is swingably attached to the entry opening 50 of the cage body 10, as shown in FIG. Then, when the door body 20 swings and comes into contact with the trigger member 40, the closing mechanism 30 is activated, and the door body 20 swings toward the outside of the cage body 10, in other words, to the left beyond the entry opening 50 in FIG. Swinging is suppressed.

Moreover, since the mounting height of the trigger member 40 to the cage body 10 can be set arbitrarily, the height H1 between the door body 20 and the ground GL when the door body 20 swings and contacts the trigger member 40 can be arbitrarily set. This means that it can be set to . Because of this structure, according to the present invention, it is possible to avoid capturing small individuals and only capture large individuals.

That is, if the height from the feet to the top of the head of the animal entering the cage body 10 is lower than H1, the door body 20 will not swing until it reaches the height H1 and will not contact the trigger member 40 and the closing mechanism will close. doesn't work. In other words, even if an animal has entered the cage 10, it can escape from the cage 10 by swinging the door 20 outside the cage 10.

On the other hand, if the height from the feet to the top of the head of the animal entering the cage body 10 is higher than H1, the door body 20 contacts the trigger member 40, the closing mechanism is activated, and the animal is confined within the cage body 10. It will be done.

By changing the attachment position of the trigger member 40 in accordance with the size of the animal desired to be captured, it becomes possible to capture only the animal of the desired size.

Further, according to the present invention, since the door body 20 is structured to swing, it also has the effect of increasing the capturing efficiency. In other words, as a result of intensive research into the efficiency of animal capture, the inventor of the present invention has found that wild animals can enter cages such as box traps without being wary if the door is opened by their own motion. On the other hand, in conventional box traps, the door that closes the entry opening is pulled upwards from the entry opening, and when the animal that enters the cage touches the trigger member, the door falls. Wild animals are wary and do not easily enter the cage because they are pressured by the door located high above and do not have the ability to open the door themselves.

According to the present invention, the animal pushes the door body 20 by itself to make it swing and enter the cage body 10, so that the animal is less wary and the capture efficiency is increased.

Explanatory diagram showing the state of implementation of the present invention Explanatory diagram showing the state of implementation of the present invention Explanatory diagram seen from the front side Explanatory diagram seen from the side Explanatory perspective view of the trigger member Explanatory diagram showing the implementation state of the trigger member

Preferred embodiments of the constituent elements of the present invention will be outlined below with reference to the drawings. Note that the embodiments of the constituent elements of the present invention are not limited to the embodiments described below, and may take various forms as long as they fall within the technical scope of the present invention.

The animal capturing device 1 according to the present invention has a cage body 10, a door body 20, and a closing mechanism 30 as main components.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the cage body 10 includes a bottom portion 11, a left side portion 12, a right side portion 13, a top portion 14, and a rear portion 15.

The bottom part 11, the left part 12, the right part 13, the top part 14, and the rear part 15 are each made up of a plurality of steel materials 60 welded to a frame material 16 in a lattice shape.

A door body 20 is attached to the entry opening 50 of the cage body 10 so as to be swingable about a swing shaft 21 attached to the frame member 16.

As shown in FIGS. 1 to 4, the door body 20 is attached in such a manner that the lower part of the entry opening 50 can be opened and closed. Of course, this is just an example, and the entry opening 50 may be installed in a manner in which the entire entry opening 50 is opened and closed. Alternatively, it may be divided into upper and lower stages, with the upper door being swingably attached to the upper part of the cage body 10, and the lower door being swingably being attached to the upper door.

The door body 20 is composed of a plurality of steel materials 60 . . . welded to a frame material 22 in a lattice shape.

In the invention according to claim 2, the closing mechanism 30 is provided on a plate member 31 rotatably attached to the outside of the entry opening 50 of the cage body 10, and on the outside of the entry opening 50 of the cage body 10, a stopper member 33 that suppresses the rotation of the plate 31 at a position where the plate 31 stops swinging the door body 20; a trigger member 40 comprising a bracket 41, a clamping plate 42, a tightening tool 43, and a clip 44; It is constituted by a string material 70 that connects the trigger member 40 and the plate material 31.

5 and 6 show the trigger member 40. FIG. The trigger member 40 is attached to the cage body 10 by sandwiching the steel material 60 that constitutes the cage body 10.

Specifically, as shown in FIG. 6, a steel material 60 is sandwiched between a bracket 41 and a clamping plate 42, and fixed with a tightening tool 43. Here, the fastener 43 consists of a thumbscrew 43a and a nut 43b. At this time, the steel material 60 is positioned between the upper hole 41a and the lower hole 41b provided in the bracket 41, and between the upper hole 42a and the lower hole 42b provided in the clamping plate 42, and the upper hole 41a and the upper hole 42a, Thumb screws 43a, 43a are passed through the lower holes 41b and 42b to be fixed. At this time, since the steel material 60 can be selected from any height, the mounting height of the trigger member 40 can be set arbitrarily.

As shown in FIG. 6, a string material 70 is fixed to the upper part of the bracket 41 of the trigger member 40 fixed to the steel material 60 as described above using a clip 44. When the door body 20 comes into contact with this clip 44, the clip 44 is flipped off, thereby releasing the string material 70 from being fixed to the trigger member 40.

When the string material 70 is released from being fixed to the trigger member 40, the plate material 31 constituting the closing mechanism 30 rotates, and the swinging of the door body 20 to the outside of the cage body 10 is suppressed. That is, as shown in FIG. 3, the plate material 31 is rotatable around a rotation shaft 32 provided on the frame material 16, and when the plate material 31 shown in FIG. The trigger member 40 and the plate member 31 are connected via the string member 70 in a state in which the swinging of the body 20 to the outside of the cage body 20 is not hindered. When the string member 70 is released from being fixed to the trigger member 40 in this state, the plate member 31 rotates downward and comes into contact with the stopper member 33, thereby preventing the plate member 31 from rotating. In this state, the swinging of the door body 20 toward the outside of the cage body 10 is stopped.

1 and 2 show a state in which the trigger member 40 is attached to the right side portion 13 that constitutes the cage body 10.

In FIG. 1, one end of a string material 70 is fixed to the trigger member 40, and the other end of the string material 70 is fixed to the plate material 31. This state is at a stage where they are waiting for an animal to invade.

On the other hand, FIG. 2 shows a state in which the clip 44 has been flipped off from the bracket 41 of the trigger member 40, and one end of the string material 70 is free and the other end is fixed to the plate material 31. It shows. This shows a state in which an animal has entered the cage body 10, the closing mechanism 30 has been activated, and the animal (not shown) has been captured. In this state, since one end of the string material 70 is not fixed to the bracket 41, the plate material 31 rotates around the rotation shaft 32 due to its own weight, is stopped by the stopper member 33, and the cage member of the door body 20 10 is prevented from swinging outward.

10... Cage body 20... Door body 21... Swinging shaft 22... Frame material 30... Closing mechanism 31... Plate material 32... Rotating shaft 33... Stopper member 40... Trigger member 41... Bracket 42...Holding plate 43...Tightening tool 44...Clip 50...Intrusion opening 60...Steel material 70...String material

Claims (1)

An apparatus for capturing wild animals, in which an entry opening is formed in a cage body, and a door body that can open and close the entry opening is formed in the cage body,
The door body is provided so as to be swingable relative to the cage body using its upper end as a fulcrum;
When the door body swings in the direction inside the cage body, it flicks off the clip described below, which releases the string material described below from the trigger member described below, and operates, and the plate material described later connected to the string material described later. A closing mechanism is provided in which the plate material comes into contact with a stopper member described later when rotated, thereby preventing the door body from swinging in the direction outside the cage body by the plate material;
The closing mechanism includes a plate member rotatably attached to the outside of the entry opening of the cage body, and a position provided outside the entry opening of the cage body, where the plate member stops the swinging of the door body when the plate member rotates. a trigger member consisting of a bracket, a clamping plate, a tightening tool, and a clip; and a string member connecting the trigger member and the plate material;
The trigger member constituting the closing mechanism can be installed at any height;
A wild animal capture device featuring:

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