A New or Improved Trap for Catching Mice, Rats, and other Animals.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Oct., 1861
Complete Specification Left, 13th Nov., 1891-Accepted, 19th Dec., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Trap for Catching Mice, Rats, and other
Animals.
I, SUSAN WEBBER, of Number 30 Augusta Road, Ramsgate, in the County
of Kent, Housekeeper, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The principle of my invention consists in the employment of an inclined plane
for the bottom of a trap in combination with a loose ball, which latter being placed
upon a poising or balancing point near the higher end of the inclined plane con-
tiguous to the bait, and upon its being disturbed by the animal coming to the bait
and being thrown off its resting point it will roll down the inclined plane and fill
up the entrance to the trap, thereby securing the animal.
The inclined plane may be made so relatively to the other portions of the trap,
or there may be a provision attached to the trap for elevating one end to a suitable
angle.
The sides of the trap are made to converge to the entrance thereof so that upon
the ball being disturbed it will be carried down to and fill up the said entrance.
Provision is also made whereby the ball is carried back to the resting or balancing
point by elevating the entrance end of the trap; by which means the trap can be
56 set" without touching the ball.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Trap for Catching Mice, Rats, and other
Animals.
SUSAN WEBBER, of 30 Augusta Road, Ramsgate, in the County of Kent,
Housekeeper, 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 consists in the employment of an inclined plane for the bottom of
a trap in combination with a loose ball, which latter is placed upon a poising or
balancing point near the higher end of the inclined plane contiguous to the bait.
The ball is disturbed by the animal coming to the bait and thrown off its resting
point, so that it rolls down the inclined plane and fills up the entrance to the trap,
thereby securing the animal.
The inclined plane may be made so relatively to the other portions of the trap,
or there may be a provision attached to the trap for elevating one end to a suitable
angle.
The sides of the trap are made to converge to the entrance thereof, so that upon
the ball being disturbed, it will be carried down to and block up the said entrance.
Provision is also made whereby the ball is carried back to the resting or balancing
point by elevating the entrance end of the trap, so that the trap can be "set
without touching the ball.
Any number of traps can be joined together if desired and form an aggregate
of traps.
Fig. 1. is a view of the exterior of the tran.

page_text: A is entrance, which in Fig. 1. is shown blocked by ball C. In Fig. 2 the ball C
is shown on its resting place D. The animal entering at A. proceeds to bait E, and
by its movements thrusts the ball C from its resting place. The ball thereupon
rolls down the inclined base B and blocks the entrance A. H is a movable slide
or opening. G is a grating through which the animal sees the bait E. To "set
the trap it is only requisite to raise the end A, when the ball C rolls up the base B
and is directed by guide or guides F to its resting place D.
"
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what way the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A trap with an inclined base and loose ball which ball is so poised that the
movement of the animal in the trap causes the ball to roll down the inclined base
and close the entrance.
2. In a trap covered by the preceding claim the contrivance whereby the trap is
set" by raising the entrance of the trap and causing the ball to be guided to ita
poising place.
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10L
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Le 1901
W. H. MUNNS,
Agent for Applicant.