Patent ID: 7398617
Filing Date: 2008-07-15
Classification: A01M,F41H

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for remotely deploying a live capture net in close proximity to wild animals in a way that is safe for the animal, the user and any person or property that might be in the area where the apparatus is used, which comprises a frame, a suspension assembly for suspending the frame at a point above the ground that positions the frame high enough to be out of the animal's immediate visual field, a firing chamber member, the firing chamber member being supported within the frame and the firing chamber comprising a primary bore and a plurality of secondary bores, a spark plug holder positioned within the primary bore of the firing chamber member, a spark plug, an explosive placed within the primary bore of the firing chamber member, the explosive being detonated by electrical actuation of the spark plug, a plurality of pipes extending downwardly and outwardly from the firing chamber member, each pipe defining a pipe bore and each of said pipe bores forming a bore continuum with the secondary bore of the firing chamber member, a deployable net, the net defining a net perimeter, and a plurality of net-anchoring weights attached to the perimeter of the net, each weight being receivable within the bore of a pipe for discharge of the weight from the pipe bore, wherein one net-anchoring weight is removably secured within each of the pipe bores that extend from the firing chamber member until deployed which, when the plurality of weights is deployed, also deploys the net and the net perimeter in a generally outwardly and generally downwardly direction to live capture an animal positioned below the frame within the net.