NL1014468C1 - Mouse trap for more than one mouse, comprises vertical tube with entrance halfway up and region below for collecting living or dead mice - Google Patents

Abstract

The trap comprises an essentially vertical tube (1) with an entrance hole (3) about halfway up it leading to a bait (4). The trap includes a mechanism (6) for killing the mice and beneath the tube is a region for collecting living or dead mice.

Description

Reusable mousetrap for more than 1 mouse.

Many mouse traps have been invented in history, and many patents have as their subject devices intended to capture and / or kill mice.

Unique to the device proposed herein is that the "path" that the mouse travels in or could travel as the only possible path in the device does not contain or at least contain moving parts or mechanisms.

As far as the movement of a live and / or dead mouse is concerned, there is therefore hardly any possibility that the operation of this device can be interrupted due to a mechanical malfunction (such as could be caused by failing swing doors, seesaws, trapdoors, etc.). .

Another unique feature of the device proposed herein is that use is made of a natural physical property of the mouse, its acrobatic climbing ability, in order to be able to separate 'free' mice from (killed) mice, or caught mice vent 'in the proposed device. free mice.

A live mouse preferably travels a different path in this device than a dead or slipped mouse: a living mouse can easily overcome any obstacle in a vertically (or almost vertically) arranged space that takes him to the higher placed bait or to the freedom, n.1. the lower entrance (s), while a dead or slipped mouse will only travel a gravity-forced fall route, leads straight to the bottom of the fall.

By utilizing the ability of a mouse to climb vertical walls and thereby easily overcome all kinds of obstacles, this naturally given distinction in trajectories can be exploited to separate dead or slipped mice without having to equip the device with moving ones parts.

For example, the mouse can be placing bait above the entrance (s) until a climb upwards along the outside of a closed tube or tube, or at least an elongated shaped enclosed space, being introduced further through an opening in the outer wall of this tube or tube. inside of the wall climbs up to the position where the bait is located.

It is not generally known that such an 'indirect' and mainly vertical trajectory is easily traversed by a mouse, as long as there are the slightest protrusions to which its claws can attach.

These protrusions can be arranged in such a way that the way upwards proceeds without difficulty, but that when reaching the bait the contact with the protrusions applied there is not optimal.

The mouse is forcibly guided, by the pull of the bait, into the very limited space in which the mouse will stick its head to get the bait.

Also included in the preferred embodiment of the device are a detector (or multiple detectors) and a killing mechanism.

Precisely there, the presence of the mouse head in the "correct position of killing" is determined preferably without mechanisms (eg "electronic"), after which the killing mechanism coupled to the detector is automatically activated.

The choice of the method of killing is preferably the most rapid, sure and painless method.

The method of killing chosen in the proposed device is to break the neck / spine of the mouse as a result of dropping a hard object on the mouse neck or back with the necessary force.

In the preferred embodiment, it has been chosen to apply the impact force of a linear electro-magnet (impact magnet, solenoid), of which a 'cover', or 'disc' or any other hard object is attached to the moving plunger.

Other methods of killing a mouse that are lured to a predictable location are not excluded.

After this, the mouse legs grip on the notch in the vertical tube, which - intentionally - does not offer an ideal positioning option for the mouse, and the mouse will lose its grip and fall straight down.

After a mouse has been killed or has lost its grip on the steep wall, gravity transports the mouse to the "waste container", in the bottom of the same tube or tube.

The preferred "waste container" closes the tube 40 or tube at the bottom and is preferably removable.

In the preferred embodiment, live mice can leave the trap without any problem as they open in the middle. : 3 remains and does not contain trapdoors, swing doors or other obstacles.

The 'killing' mechanism has been chosen in such a way that the integrity of the mouse body remains in position 5 as much as possible: there will be no blood and meat residues in the trap or the "waste container".

The "waste container" can be carried out in two versions: in order to contain only dead mice (in the preferred embodiment), the inner walls thereof must be 'climbable' for living mice.

If not, all "slipped" mice thrown into the container by gravity will be in the container.

In the preferred embodiment, the "waste container" contains only dead mice: living mice can easily remove from the container if the "waste container" is provided with 'climbable' inner walls and can leave the trap through the higher hole.

This can serve to reassure those who do not like to be confronted with live mice or unsavory mouse remains.

In the preferred embodiment, a signaling device, such as, for example, an LED light, can indicate whether the trap is in a ready state, whether the trap is "jumped", or whether a defect (eg blockage) frustrates the operation of the trap.

If the trap is "jumped", one or more mice are in the removable "waste container".

After a mouse has fallen into the "waste container", the 'indirect' route is immediately free again to lead the next mouse up the steep climbing wall in the same way.

In the preferred embodiment, the "lethal mechanism" and the detectors are again and again ready for their task: the plunger of the solenoid immediately returns "to its initial position.

In this way, a large number of mice can be killed one after the other without human intervention, or a large number of living mice can be caught.

The trap can be designed as a "washable" object, e.g. in plastic.

40 In the preferred embodiment of the device it consists of a vertically or almost vertically arranged tube or tube (1), under which a preferably removable "waste container" 1014468 «4 (2) is placed, accessible only through an opening (or several openings) halfway (3).

Above this opening is a space with bait (4). In the preferred embodiment, at the location where the mouse will protrude its head to reach the bait, there is a detector or detectors (5) and a deadly mechanism (6) or at least a deadly device for the mouse.

In the embodiment described under claim 2, elements 4, 5 and 6 lapse, as can be seen in drawing B.

The shape of the container is also presented here more broadly, to accommodate living mice.

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Claims (8)

1. Device serving as a mousetrap intended to catch and kill mice and to catch the killed mice, consisting of a vertically or almost vertically arranged tube or tube or at least mainly enclosed space with a hole (or holes) as the only entrance somewhere midway through the tube or sleeve, thereby providing mice with an access path from the outside leading to a bait placed higher inside the tube or sleeve, at which position there is also a facility for killing mice, while at the bottom of the the tube or sleeve referred to above is provided in a space for collecting slipped mice (fig A). 2. Device as claimed in claim 1, but without provision for killing mice, therefore serving only to catch mice alive, characterized in that this device mainly consists of a vertically or almost vertically arranged tube or tube, or at least mainly enclosed space with the only entrance being a hole (or holes) somewhere about halfway down the tube or sleeve, therewith. providing mice with an access path from the outside leading to a bait placed higher inside the tube or sleeve, while at the bottom of the above-mentioned tube or sleeve a space is provided for receiving slipped mice, from which the space is higher entrance for mice is unreachable (fig B). Device according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that this space consists of a removable container. 4. Device according to claim 1, characterized in that the killing mechanism consists of an electrically activatable linear solenoid (solenoid), which can fatally hit the mouse with a hard object attached to the plunger. Device as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the detection of the presence of a mouse takes place / can take place at the position where the lethal mechanism is effective. 6. Device as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the detection of the presence of a mouse is carried out by electronic means, coupled to an electronic circuit of which also the impact magnet referred to in claim 4 forms part. Device according to claim 1, characterized in that the trap entrance / exit is permanently "open", allowing living mice to continuously climb into the trap and / or exit the trap. 8. Device as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the drop quality dimensions are suitable for capturing and / or killing harmful animals other than mice. 1 h ï * ·> 4 .o i