An Improvement in or relating to Traps for Catching Rats or Mice.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Jan., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 9th Oct., 1895-Accepted, 16th Nov., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in or relating to Traps for Catching Rats or Mice.
JOHN JEREMIAH of 2 North Street Dowlais Glamorganshire, Plumber THOMAS
LLEWELLYN WATTS of 31 Union Street Dowlais Glamorganshire Butcher do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The above applicants wish to protect the idea of the rat or mouse or rats or mice
whilst looking at the trap & seeing it or their own image, reflected by means of a
mirror, placed in such a position in the trap or in any way attached to the trap so
that the rat or mouse; or rats or mice seeing itself or themselves reflected,
through the mirror will be an inducement for the rat or monse or rats or mice
to enter the trap and thereby being caught. And we hereby do humbly pray for
protection after this manner, namely that no person or persons shall attach to any
mouse or rat trap or cage any kind of reflecting mirror for the purpose of decoying
any rat or mouse into the trap or cage & thereby being caught.
Dated this Eighth day of January 1895.
JOHN JEREMIAH.
THOMAS LLEWELLYN WATTS.
We, JOHN JEREMIAH, of 2 North Street, Plumber, and THOMAS LLEWELLYN
WATTS, of 31 Union Street, Butcher, both of Dowlais, in the County of Glamor-
ganshire, 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 :-
Our invention relates to an improvement in or relating to traps for catching rats
or mice, which consists of a mirror placed in any suitable position and in any
description of trap or in any way attached to the trap, so that the rat or mouse
or rats and mice seeing itself or themselves reflected through the mirror will be
an inducement for the rat or mouse or rats or mice to enter the trap, and thereby
being caught.
In carrying our invention into practice we prefer to use the ordinary wire woven
cage trap of an oblong or square pattern and in this said trap we prepare a slot
at the top end and in this said slot we pass a vertical mirror so that the said
mirror shall face the opening of the trap for the purpose of reflecting the image of
either a rat or mouse by day or gas light. In the ordinary door or through off we
provide a taper opening so that a rat or mouse may go in but cannot return. Spikes
are provide for the purpose of preventing any animals exit.
If preferable a mirror may be fixed either outside or inside of any cage trap, or
a suitable may be constructed with a slot or opening for the purpose of receiving
the mirror.
The object of the mirror is to induce a rat or mouse or rats or mice whilst looking
at the trap and seeing its or their own image reflected by the mirror to enter the
trap and thereby become prisoners.

page_text: It will be particularly understood that we claim for our invention the attach-
ment of any kind of reflecting mirror for the purpose of decoying any rat or mouse
into a trap.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
1. In traps for catching rats or mice, the combination of any kind of reflecting
mirror and any kind of trap, for the purpose of decoying any rat or mouse into a
trap, substantially as described.
2. In traps for catching rats or mice, the combination of a mirror fitted or attached
inside or outside of a trap, substantially as described in this Specification and for
the purpose specified.
Data :. 041
1908
J. P. BAYLY,
18 Fulham Place, W., Agent for the Applicants.