An Improved vermin Trap.
Year: 1886

page_text: I WILLIAM GEORGE EVERITT of Carlton. Colville, Lowestoft in the county of
Suffolk, Corn Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention has for its object the construction of a vermin trap which is
simple in its arrangement and operation and effective in catching and quickly
killing vermin.
And my invention consists in the construction of the said trap with a strong
direct acting spring and fork, such fork carrying jaws which on being released
from the catch are closed by the spring upon the verinin caught in the trap.
The frame of the trap is of the usual form and is provided with an arched
entrance, through which the vermin pass and on touching the platform, the catch
is released, and the spring closes the jaws against the top of the trap and at once
breaks the back of the vermin.
The spring is direct acting and central, being formed as an extension backwards
of the fork carrying the jaws. The trap arranged in this manner is not required
to be fastened as the animal dies quickly without suffering.
W. SPENCE & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.
An Improved vermin Trap.
I WILLIAM GEORGE EVERITT of Carlton Colville Lowestoft in the county of
Suffolk, Corn Merchant 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 :—
My invention has for its object the construction of a vermin trap which is
simple in its arrangement and operation and effective in catching and quickly
killing vermin

page_text: And my invention consists in the construction of the said trap with a strong
direct acting spring and fork such fork carrying jaws which on being released
from the catch are closed by the spring upon the vermin caught in the trap.
The frame of the trap is of the usual form and is provided with an arched
entrance, through which the vermin pass and on touching the platform, the catch
is released, and the spring closes the jaws against the top of the trap and at once
breaks the back of the vermin.
The spring is direct acting and central, being formed as an extension backwards
of the fork carrying the jaws. The trap arranged in this manner is not required
to be fastened as the animal dies quickly without suffering.
In order that my invention may be fully understood I will describe it more
particularly by the aid of the accompanying drawings in which is shewn a trap of
the kind above referred to,
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figs. 1 and 2 show a side view of the said trap, in fig. 1 it is shown as set, and
in fig. 2 with the spring jaws released.
Fig. 3 is a plan or horizontal view, of fig. 1.
In these several figures the same letters of reference indicate corresponding
parts.
A is the frame of the trap, B the arched entrance, C is the platform, D¹ D² the
catch arrangement, E the central direct acting spring carrying at its end the fork
and jaws F.
The above described vermin trap has the further advantage of lessening the
liability of other animals besides vermin becoming caught therein owing to the
limited size of the arched entrance.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is,
The arrangement of a vermin trap provided with a central direct acting spring
such spring carrying a fork and jaws, so as to act in the manner and for the
purposes substantially as hereinbefore described.
Dated this twronty sixth dor of Tune 1886