An Improved Mouse or Rat Trap.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 18th June, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 25th June, 1892-Accepted, 13th Aug., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Mouse or Rat Trap.
We, SAMUEL HERN, of 94 Saint Mary Street, Estate Agent, and WILLIAM
KINGDON, of 4 Crofts Street, Roath, Decorator, both of Cardiff, in the
County of Glamorganshire, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved mouse or rat trap, which is supposed to be
a marvel of simplicity, and it is intended it should be made in china, metal, wood or
of any other material and is constructed to resemble an edifice, with a metal trap
or drop plate sliding in grooves, and a hook or metal bar pointed at the end to put
the bait on and a notch cut in the head to hang up the trap when the bar is placed
at an incline. The animal rushes in, displaces the hook and consequently causes
the trap to drop and the operation of securing the animal is complete.
Openings of various designs may be formed in the walls of the trap to suit any
edifice.
It will be understood that the foregoing is given by way of illustration and
that the shapes and parts may be varied in many ways within the scope of our
invention.
11
1000
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, W., Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Mouse or Rat Trap.
We, SAMUEL HERN, of 94 Saint Mary Street, Estate Agent, and WILLIAM
KINGDON, of 4 Crofts Street, Roath, Decorator, both of Cardiff, in the County of
Glamorganshire, 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:-
This invention relates to an improved mouse or rat trap, which is supposed to be
a marvel of simplicity, and it is intended it should be made in china, metal, wood
or of any other material, and is constructed to resemble an edifice, with a metal
trap or drop plate sliding in grooves, and a hook or metal bar pointed at the end to
put the bait on and a notch cut in the head to hang up the trap when the bar is
placed at an incline. The animal rushes in, displaces the hook and consequently
causes the trap to drop and the operation of securing the animal is complete.
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 longitudinal section.
Fig. 2, is a plan of the top of Fig. 1.
We construct the trap by erecting on a platform k the walls ; with a tower fat
In the tower we form inclined
one end, the said walls being covered by a roof e.
grooves g g, and in a portion of the said tower f and the roof e a slot d is cut.
Between the grooves g g a metal trap or drop plate a falls or is drawn up, and in
A hook or metal bar e with a notch and a
the said plate a an opening b is cut.
point to receive the bait is placed when the trap is set, in an inclined position
as in Fig. 1, the notch I supporting the plate a through the top of the opening b.
The animal enters the trap by the opening indicated by an arrow and displaces

page_text: the bar e when eating the baith which releases the trap or drop plate a this said
plate falls down on to the platform k and thus secures the animal.
Openings of various designs may be formed in the walls of the trap to suit any
edifice.
It will be understood that the foregoing is given by way of illustration and
that the shapes and parts may be varied in many ways within the scope of our
invention.
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:
In a mouse or rat trap, the combination of the metal trap or drop plate a and
opening 6 with 'hook or metal bar c point i notch 1, the grooves 9 g slot d in the
edifice efi on a platform k, substantially as herein described and according to the
accompanying drawing.
Dated this 25th day of June 1892
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, W., Agent for the Applicants.