US346218A

US346218A - olmsted

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Publication number: US346218A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1886-07-27
Anticipated expiration: 1903-07-27

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(No Model.)

L. H. OLMSTED.

MOLE TRAP.

N0. 346 218; ratemed Jul 27, 1886.

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LEVERETT H. OLMSTED, OF CORONA, NEV JERSEY.

MOLE-TRAP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 346,218, dated July 27, 1886.

Application filed August 18, 188-2.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be itknown that I, LEYERE'IT H. OLMSTED,

. a citizen of the United States of America, re-

siding at Corona, in the county of Bergen and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mole-Traps, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

Thisinvention has relation to in'iprovements in mole-traps; and it consists in the construc tion and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter described,and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front View of my invention, and Fig. 2 is a side or edge view of the same.

The letters A A represent the legs of my improved mole-trap, connected together by braces B 13, formed integral therewith, at the top and about midway of said legs, as shown in the drawings.

The letter D represents rods connected at their upper ends by a platform, G, and at their lower ends by a spider, H, to which the upper ends of the prongs E are attached.

The extreme lower ends of the legs A are tapering or wedge-shaped, to enable them to be readily inserted in the ground, and at a suitable distance above these ends the legs are provided with integral plates J, serving to gage the depth to which said legs shall enter the ground. At a point just above the level of these plates a trigger, K, is pivoted to one of the legs A, the long arm K of which extends Serial No. (29,671. (No model.)

beyond the center of the opening between the legs, while its short arm K extends outward beyond the leg to which it is pivoted, and is provided near its end with a notch or shoulder,

Z, which engageswith the lower end of the I am aware ofPatents No. 263,109,0f August 22, 1882; No. 242,912, of June 1.4, 1881, and No. 238,583, of March 8, 1881, and I do not seek to claim such construction; but

\Vhat I do claim is' In a mole-trap, the combination, with the legs A, having braces B B formed integral therewith, of the rodsD,sliding in said braces, and having the platform G, spider H, and prongs E, the tripping mechanism K K M t, pivoted to one of said legs, and the legs also having the integral plates J, serving to gage the depth to which said legs shall enter the ground, as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

LEVER-EDT II. OLMSTED.

Vitnesses:

FRANCIS O. BOWEN, F. U. llIOFFAT.