PIGEON TRAP
Year: 1886

page_text: WILLIAM DODGE Steeple Claydon near Winslow Bucks Land Agent & Sack
Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of my invention for A PIGEON TRAP
to be as follows:-
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A Hemispherical Pigeon Trap, similar to a common wash-hand basin, supported
on a stationary axis. The axis carried by a frame.
Axis also supports a stationary platform for pigeon.
Trap made to revolve, on axis, half-way round (which is then unsett), by means
of a string being pulled, which is attached to Trap. The same string on being
repulled, resetts Trap.
The Trap made of iron & brass.

page_text: I, WILLIAM DODGE of Steeple Claydon, near Winslow Land Agent, & Sack
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for EXPOSING
PIGEONS FOR SHOOTING, FROM A TRAP and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
The object of my invention, is for a more expeditious mode of exposing pigeons,
for shooting from a Trap.
I effect my object in the following way,
I procure three pieces of sheet iron, A 22 Birmingham wire gauge, each
measuring 14" x 11" x 11". Block out the 14" sides or base :each to 2" &
the 11" sides, each to of an inch. Rivett them together, by eight rivetts B on
the 11" sides, lapping them of an inch; the whole forming a dome. A circular
iron rim C 1" x, is then rivetted by four rivetts D inside at the base of the
pieces thus put together, thus forming the complete dome or top of the Trap,
dia. 13". A circular iron frame E 41" cir. × 1" x 1", is then made, to which are
rivetted, on the outside, four pieces of bar iron, 8" x 1" dia. at one of their ends,
at equal distances F around the frame, forming the legs. Each one of the four
legs, is then rivetted, at the other end, to the outside, of each one of the corners of
a square iron frame, G, measuring 9" x 1" x fr". The circular iron frame, is
bent outwards 1" x 1" in the middle, at the back H, thus forming the complete
frame.
An iron axis, in two halves K, is next made, each 6″ × ″ × ". Half an inch
at one end of each half axis L, is reduced to "square. Run the "square ends
through holes, just sufficiently large, through the centre of the rim of dome, M,
dividing the dome, in two equal halves, into " square holes N, in the centre of the
circular frame E, dividing the frame, in two equal halves. File off the corners of
the "sq. ends, the distance only occupied, in going through the rim & dome.
A circular iron platform 0, 11" dia. x", is then rivetted by four rivetts, P,
upon the axis K, equidistant all round from the base of the dome.
On the dome, are placed two stops, & one loop & one wedge. Outside, at 1"
from the base, on the front of dome, is rivetted one stop Q, size "x" × 1″.
The other stop, of same dimensions R, is rivetted, outside, at 1" from the base on
the back of dome. The loop S, with a hole " dia. drilled in it, is rivetted, at 5"
from the base on front of dome, size "x"x". The wedge T, size 1"x1"x"
the "filed down to an edge, is placed between the stop on front, & to the base
of the dome, the edge running with the base.
Between 6" & 91", from the base, on the front of the dome, enclosed in a
circle of 101", are drilled nineteen holes, U, dia. of each hole ", giving ventilation.
The whole Trap, is then placed in a hole in the ground, exactly the size & shape
of the frame.

page_text: A cord, is tied to the loop S, & when pulled, causes Trap to make half a revolution,
exposing pigeon to view. Repull the same cord, & Trap is re-sett. The cord is not
new, also the iron & brass, of which the Trap is made, & forms no part of the
.Invention.
A brass plate W 6" x 31" is placed in front on dome, between the stop & holes,
bearing the Inventor's name.
Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of my said
Invention & in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is,
1. The hemispherical shape of Trap.
2. Its half revolving action.
3. The re-setting of Trap by the same cord.