An Improved Mouse Trap.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Nov., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 21st July, 1898-Accepted, 22nd Aug., 1896
An Improved Mouse Trap.
RICHARD WHITAKER Hardware Merchant 724 Rochdale Road Mauchester
Lancashire do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists in making a mouse trap with an undetachable bait-hook
and wire bar to carry the same. And in making a door of the hinder half of the
bottom of the trap, which 1 call the bait door. And in hingeing and fastening the
same. And in placing the spring for closing the spring door, outside the trap, on
the top, and in front of the spring door.
I obtain these results by making the bar, which carries the bait hook, a fixture as
shown in drawings by A Fig. 1 and in making the hinder half of the bottom of the
trap swing open on two wire nails, which are driven through the sides into the
bottom, one from either side, and act as hinges as shown by A Fig. 3. I fasten
the bait door when closed by a piece of wire, bent at right angles, one of the angles
being driven into the bottom of one side, the bent wire then acts as a button which'
with the thumb and finger can be turned to fasten or release the door as shown
by A Fig. 2. Preferably I put a fasteuer on each side of the door as shown by B
Fig. 3 effect the closing of the door when the trap is sprung, by a spring, which
I place outside and in front of the spring door. One end of the spring is attached to
the lever and the other end is attached to a wire bar which stretches across the
front of the trap. Each end of the wire bar is bent at right angles and driven into a
side of the trap as shown by B Fig. 1.
Dated this 11th day of November 1895.
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RICHARD Whitaker Hardware Factor 724 Rochdale Road Manchester 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 making a mouse trap with an undetachable bait-hook
and wire bar to carry the same. And in making a door of the hinder half of the
bottom of the trap, which I call the bait door. And in hingeing and fastening the
Game. And in placing the spring for closing the spring door, outside the trap, on
the top, and in front of the spring door. I obtain these results by making the bar,
which carries the bait hook a fixture, shown by A Fig. 1 as per drawings in the
Provisional Specification No. 21396, 12th Nov. 1895, and in making the
hinder half of the bottom of the trap swing open on two wire nails, which are driven
through the sides in the bottom, one from either side, and act as hinges as shown
by A Fig. 3 I fasten the bait door when closed by a piece of wire, bent at right
angles, one of the angles being driven into the bottom of one side, the bent wire
then acts as a button which with the thumb and finger can be turned to fasten.or
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page_text: release the door as shown by Fig. A Fig. 2 preferably I put a fastener on each side
of the door as shown by B Fig. 3. I effect the closing of the door when the trap
is sprung, by a spring, which place outside and in front of the spring door, one
end of the spring is attached to the lever and the other end is attached to a wire
bar which stretches across the front of the trap, each end of the wire bar is bent at
right angles and driven into a side of the trap as shown by B Fig. 1.
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:
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1st. An undetachable bait hook on fixed wire bar.
2nd. A hinged bait door formed in the bottom of trap, with buttons to 'bold' the
same when closed:
3rd. An outside spring fixed over trap door, having the pull from the lever on the
door to the wire bar across the front ends of trap.
Dated this 20th day of July 1896.
RICHARD WHITAKER.