Атар THE mice, hats and other vermiu
Year: 1898

page_text: Атар
THE mice, hats and other vermiu,
ARTHUR WOOD, 9, Siddons Road, Forest Hill, in the County of Kent, Dairy-
man, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A trap consisting of a bottom board, with another board fixed upon it, into a
circular space cut in which, a weight suspended from a frame fixed into the said
boards descends, on a trigger being moved by the vermin feeding below.
March 18th
A Trap for the Destruction of Mice, Rats and other Vermin.
I, ARTHUR WOOD, of 9, Siddons Road, Eorest Hill, in the County of Kent,
Dairyman, 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 has reference to an improved trap for the destruction of mice,
rats and other vermin and my invention consists in the improved trap substantially
as hereinafter described.
In the accompanying drawing,
Fig. 1 is a plan view of the lower part only of my improved trap.
Fig. 2 is a side elevation, partly in section, of the complete trap, and
Fig. 3 is a front elevation of my improved trap.
In carrying my invention into practice, I employ a base H upon which I attach
a plate or board F which is formed with a preferably circular opening or aper-
ture 1 and a slit or like d. I further provide four standards or the like G
which are fixed at their lower ends into the base H and which carry at their
upper ends a cross bar K. Two of said standards-the central ones also act as
guides to a weight N said weight having suitable apertures to permit said
standards to pass therethrough.
The said weight, when the trap is set, is supported a suitable distance above
the platform H by means of a cord or equivalent M which is at one end fastened
thereto, and after passing say through the cross bar K the other end of said
cord is attached to a prop or support L which latter enters at its upper end into
a nick or notch with which the weight N is formed. The lower end of said
prop L normally tends to turn in the direction indicated by the arrow by
reason of the weight pulling on the cord M but said lower end of the prop L

page_text: is normally held in the position shown in the drawings by a trigger or equiva-
lent E which is supported at e and the free end of which is provided with a nick
or equivalent el into which nick or equivalent the lower end of the prop L enters.
The trigger E is, by its support normally held upwardly against the prop L but
should a very slight weight or pressure be placed or exerted on said trigger, then
the said trigger is depressed and the prop L released and as a result the weight N
permitted to fall. The lower face of the weight N is provided with spikes
equivalents the arrangement of the whole being such that the trap is set as
indicated and food or other matter attractive to vermin placed in the apperture D
so that in endeavouring to obtain said food the vermin are likely to press on
the trigger E in which event the weight N will be released as already described
and the spikes will enter the bodies and kill or at least, prevent the escape of,
the vermin that may be there.
or
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:-
The improved trap consisting of the base, a plate, weight trigger support spikes
uprights and cross-bar, circular or other open space in the said plate and cord
or wire, adapted to kill vermin all substantially as described and illustrated by
the appended drawings.