Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Trapping Animals and Birds.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Dec., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 11th Sept., 1890-Accepted, 18th Oct., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Trapping Animals
and Birds.
I, GEORGE ANDREWS, of Jessamine Villa, Hunters Road, Willesborough, Ashford,.
in the County of Kent, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in means or apparatus for trapping animals
and birds, and consists of a platform with a fall down cage sliding on one or more.
upright rods, forced downwards by a spiral spring. The trap is set by the cage
being forced upwards and held secure by a rope or chain passing over the top of
the rod with the loop on the end attached to the end of a bar working on a pin
at the bottom of the upright rod, this said bar at the edge of the other end seats
itself on the point of a lever projecting above the platform, but connected to the trap
door in the centre of the platform. The trap is thrown directly the animal or bird
place their feet on the trap door by their weight, forcing the lever away from the bar
which releases the rope or chain, the cage with an instantaneous motion falls on the
platform and secures the animal or bird.
This invention is regulated to trap from a large animal to a small bird, by the
arrangement of a long thumb screw to bind against the lever arm of the trap.
Slide bars are provided in the platform to prevent the trap falling during
the process of setting the cage and are withdrawn from beneath the door directly the
cage is so set.
The object of my invention is to provide an instantaneous fall down cage trap to
catch animals or birds of any dimensions without injuring the same.
The cage may be made of metallic or any other suitable material.
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, W., Agent for the Applicant
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Trapping Animals
and Birds.
1, GEORGE ANDREWS, Engineer, of Jessamine Villa, Hunters Road, Willesborough,
Ashford, in the County of Kent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to improvements in means or apparatus for trapping animals.
and birds, of any size or description, and consists of a platform with a fall down cage
sliding on one or more upright rods, and forced downwards by a spiral spring.
And in order that my invention may be thoroughly understood, I now describe the
accompanying drawings thereof, reference being had to letters and figures marked
thereon.
Figure 1 represents an elevation of the trap in its normal position, or as I may
term the trap to be closed down on to the platform h, and i. The frame of the trap a
is rivetted together and constructed of thin bars of iron, covered òr wired thereto with
a wire net covering 1, in order to form a cage. The platform i is covered with a sheet.
of zinc or other metallic substance h, with a square hole r¹ cut in the zinc and the
platform for the purpose of working the trap door movement. The trap slides up
two perpendicular guide rods b and c, through the frame a', with a spiral spring fon

page_text: the guide rod c for the forcing power to throw the cage downwards at the moment
the lever arm o is released from the bar n. The cage is pulled up by a rope, chain or
wire d over the head e and fixed by the ring or loop q on to the bar n.
head g is placed at the top to rigidly fix the guide rods together.
A cross
Figure 2 denotes the trap set ready to catch any animal or bird, by the loop 9 on
the end of the bar n, this said bar being loosely rivetted to the guide rod c and rests
on the top of the lever arm o, this said lever is pivoted on a bearing and the screwed
end of the rod and thumb screw p; and the other arm of the cranked lever o is
rivetted to a plate r inside the square holes in the platform i and is indicated by
dotted lines. The flat rod j is in its usual position to prevent the trap falling below
the rod j and is indicated by dotted lines, or the rod j may be withdrawn in order to
open the door to obtain the contents. The flat rod k is drawn out and broken off for
want of space, for the purpose of allowing the trap to come into action when a bird
drops on the trap door r, or the rod may be forced inwards as indicated in Figure 3
to prevent the trap coming into action.
Figure 3 is a plan of the platform with the trap door and the flat parts of the
guide rods b and c in section on line A, B, of Figure 2. The dotted lines m, m,
indicate stretcher bars screwed to the bottom of the platform. The square hole ris
cut in the sheet zinc h. The sliding bars are shown in part plan and dotted lines, the
arrows being intended to indicate the way these said bars draw outwards.
This invention consists of a platform hand i, with a fall down cage a and b, sliding
on one or more upright rods b and c, and forced downwards by a spiral spring for
springs. The trap is set by the cage being forced upwards and held secure by a rope
or chain d passing over the top e, of the rod c with the loop q on the end attached to
the end of a bar n working on a pin at the bottom of the upright rod c, this said bar
at the edge of the other end seats itself on the point of a lever o projecting above the
platform, but connected to the trap door in the centre of the platform as
in Figures 2, and 3. The trap is thrown directly the animal or bird place their feet
on the trap door r, by their weight forcing the lever o away from the bar n which
releases the rope or chain, and the cage with an instantaneous motion falls on the
platform and secures the animal or bird as in Figure 1.
My invention is regulated to trap from a large animal to a small bird by the
arrangement of a long thumb screw p to tighten the lever at the pivot thread. Slide
bars are provided in the platform to prevent the trap falling during the process of
setting the cage and are withdrawn from beneath directly the cage is so set.
The object of my invention is to provide an instantaneous fall down cage trap_to
catch animals or birds of any dimensions with or without injuring the same.
The
cage may be made of metallic or any other suitable material, size or shape, without
departing from the nature of my invention.
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If preferable I may construct my invention with a throw-over cage, on the aforesaid
platform, either to catch the animal alive or to instantaneously kill the same directly
the throw-over cage, or claw, or spike closing frame falls down on the platform,
thereby crushing the animal, provided I adhere to the lever movement operated on by
the animal placing itself on the trap door.
It will be understood that the foregoing is given by way of illustration only, and
that the shapes, materials, and proportions of the various parts may be varied in many
ways within the scope of my invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The combination of the apparatus constructed for the purpose of trapping animals
or birds, of any dimensions directly they place their feet on the trap door r, substantially
as herein described and according to the accompanying drawings.
2. The combination of the apparatus constructed of any size, shape, material, or
with any number of springs, guide rods, or chains, for the purpose of forming an

page_text: instantaneous fall down, or throw-over trap, substantially as herein described and for
the purpose set forth.
3. The combination of a fall down or throw-over trap to catch animals or birds,
with or without injury to the same, substantially as herein described.
Dated this 11th day of September 1890.
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, W., Agent for the Applicant.