Patent ID: 8418397
Filing Date: 2013-04-16
Classification: A01M

Abstract:
1. An electronic mouse trap comprising: a base having an electronic and motor area and a bin area; a roof assembly mounted to the base; an elevated chamber assembly rotatably mounted between the base and the roof assembly, said chamber assembly having a killing chamber including a floor with electrocuting plates, said chamber assembly positioned above the bin area, said chamber assembly when in a home position configured to provide a mouse with access to said killing chamber and to initiate a killing cycle, said chamber assembly remaining stationary in the home position and said mouse remaining on the plates during said killing cycle; a power-driven rotating assembly configured, upon completion of the killing cycle, to activate and rotate the chamber assembly to a dump position so as to dump the mouse into the bin area, said power-driven rotating assembly subsequently returning said chamber assembly to the home position for a next mouse; a pathway for a mouse to access said elevated chamber assembly; and an access control mechanism for preventing access to said pathway when said chamber is being rotated to said dump position.