Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Trapping Animals and Birds.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Dec., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 30th Sept., 1896-Accepted, 14th Nov., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Trapping Animals and
Birds.
We, GEORGE ANDREWS, of Jessamine Villa, Hunters Road, Willesborough,
Ashford, in the County of Kent, Engineer, and JOHN WARREN BRIGINSHAW,
and HENRY VINCENT BRIGINSHAW, both of 198 Rye Lane, Peckham, in the
County of Surrey, Butchers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
Our invention relates to improvements in means or apparatus for trapping
animals and birds, which consists of throw off mechanism to be applied and to be
worked in conjunction with the traps illustrated and described in Specifications
No. 10372 of 1890, and No. 965 of 1895.
This invention is constructed with a perch or lever bar pivoted on a pin or centre,
this said perch or bar is provided at one end with a curved projection for the
purpose of engaging with a turned up end constructed on a pivoted catch. The
catch is loosely pivoted by means of pins and is connected to or by a lever to
another pivoted catch which butt or unite with the plain end of the perch or
lever bar.
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Also we provide a longitudinal pivoted bar with a turned up end of any suitable
shape and at the other end of the said bar we construct a suitable notch or catch
to engage with a loosely hinged or pivoted bar. The curved arm or frame of the
net trap is (when set) held down by the loose hinged bar; and the bait is placed
beneath the turned up end of the pivoted bar and the platform to keep the trap set.
Directly the hait is removed by a bird the end of the longitudinal pivoted bar falls
by its own weight disengages the loose hinged bar from the notch and thereby
throws off the curved arm or frame of the net trap on to the platform.
Dated this 31st day of December 1895.
J. P. BAYLY,
18 Fulham Place, W., Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Trapping Animals and
Birds.
We, GEORGE ANDREWS, of Jessamine Villa, Hunter Road, Willesborough,
Ashford, in the County of Kent, Engineer, and JOHN WARREN BRIGINSHAW,
and HENRY VINCENT BRIGINSHAW, both of 198 Rye Lane, Peckham, in the
County of Surrey, Butchers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
Our invention relates to improvements in means or apparatus for trapping
animals and birds, which consists of throw off mechanism to be applied and to be
worked in conjunction with the traps illustrated and described in Specifications
No. 10372 of 1890, and No. 965 of 1895.

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arm or frame of the net trap is (when set as in Fig. 1,) held down by the loose
hinged bar; and the bait is placed beneath the turned up end of the pivoted bar
and the platform to keep the trap set. Directly the bait is removed by a bird the
end of the longitudinal pivoted bar falls by its own weight disengages the loose
hinged bar from the notch and thereby throws off the curved arm or frame of the
net trap onto the platform.
And in order that our invention may be thoroughly understood, we now proceed
to describe the accompanying drawing thereof, reference being had to letters and
figures marked thereon.
Fig. 1, is a side elevation of a trap set and having a cage in which to insert live
bait.
Fig. 2, is a front view of Fig 1.
Fig. 3, is a plan of a platform trap set.
Fig. 4, is a side elevation of Fig. 3.
Fig. 5, is a plan of a platform trap with a pivoted trap-door.
Fig. 6, is a part of a plan of the net trap with a perch and catch hinged to the
platform.
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In Figs. 1, and 2, we construct a trap with a cage i to receive live bait. The
Baid trap is constructed at the top with a longitudinal pivoted bar a with a turned
down end this said end is split at right angles on each side for the purpose of
any animal or bird striking against it and throw the trap. A door j is provided at
the side of the cage i. At the other end of the longitudinal pivoted bar we cut
a notch or catch c which engages with a loosely hinged bar d when set. The
curved arm or spring frame e is pivoted in the usual manner as described in the
above mentioned specifications.
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Figs. 3, and 4, represents a platform trap with a longitudinal pivoted bar a
having a catch c at one end to engage with a loosely pivoted bar d and at the
other end we form a twisted end b. The curved arm or spring frame e is held when
set under the bar d.
In Fig. 5, we construct a trap a loosely pivoted trap f which in itself at one end
becomes a catch to engage with the end of the longitudinal pivoted bar d. This
trap is thrown by the weight of a bird on the trap f which releases the end of
the bar d and the curved arm or spring frame e.
Fig. 6, represents our platform trap with the usual hinged flaps with the addition
of new mechanism for setting and throwing off. On the platform we provide a
loosely binged perch g with a catch h at the back, this said catch when the trap
set engages with one end of the longitudinal pivoted bar a which has on the
opposite end a notch or catch c to engage with a loosely hinged bar d. The dotted
lines indicate the outline of the trap.
Either of the traps illustrated in Figs. 3, 4, 5, and 6, may be used with
or without nets as described in Specifications No. 10372 of 1890, and No. 965
of 1895.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
1. In traps, the combination of the longitudinal pivoted bar a turned down end b
potch or catch c loosely hinged bar d and the curved arm or spring frame e with
the cage i and door ; substantially as herein described and according to Figs. 1,
and 2, of the accompanying drawing.
2. In traps, the combination of the longitudinal pivoted bar a the turned end b
notch or catch c loosely pivoted bar d and the curved arm or spring frame e with
or without a net and the platform, substantially as herein described and according
to Figs. 3, and 4, of the accompanying drawing.

page_text: 3. In traps, the combination of the pivoted bar d trap fand curved arm or
spring frame with the platform, with or without a net, substantially as herein.
described and according to Fig. 5, of the accompanying drawing.
4. In traps, the combination of the longitudinal pivoted bar a catch h perch g
notch or catch c loosely hinged bar d and the curved arm or spring frame e with a
net, substantially as herein described and according to Fig. 6, of the accompanying
drawing.
Dated this 30th day of September 1896.
J. P. BAYLY,
18 Fulham Place, London, W., Agent for the Applicants.