Patent Application
20220132832
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The disclosure relates to trap devices and more particularly pertains to a new trap device for capturing rodents.
The prior art relates to trap devices including a trap for capturing rodents in a bucket that includes a roller which extends across a bucket and a ramp leading to the roller. The prior art discloses a variety of rodent traps that include a container, a baited spinner and an access ramp that facilitates a rodent to access the baited spinner and subsequently fall into the container.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a cylinder that has an access opening extending therein. A bait tray is coupled to the cylinder to contain rodent bait and the bait tray is positioned inside the cylinder. A dome is positionable on the cylinder and the dome has an entry way extending therethrough to facilitate a rodent to enter the dome to access the rodent bait in the bait tray. A ramp is removably attachable to the entry way to facilitate the rodent to access the entry way. A cup is removably positionable in the cylinder to capture the rodent when the rodent enters through the entry way and falls downwardly in the cylinder. A handle is coupled to the cup to facilitate the rodent to be relocated without requiring the user to touch the rodent.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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A bait tray 26 is coupled to the cylinder 12 for containing rodent bait 28. The bait tray 26 is positioned on an inside surface 30 of the outer wall 18 of the cylinder 12 and the bait tray 26 is aligned with the distal edge 20 of the cylinder 12. Additionally, the bait tray 26 is aligned with the bait opening 24 in the outer wall 18 to facilitate the rodent bait 28 to be added to the bait tray 26. The rodent bait 28 may be granular rodent bait, rodent food, rodent poison or any other suitable rodent bait.
A dome 32 is positionable on the cylinder 12 and the dome 32 has an entry way 34 extending therethrough to facilitate a rodent 36 to enter the dome 32 to access the rodent bait 28 in the bait tray 26. The dome 32 has a top wall 38 and an outside wall 40 extending downwardly therefrom, and the outside wall 40 has a distal edge 42 with respect to the top wall 38 to define an opening 44 into the dome 32. The distal edge 42 of the outside wall 40 engages the distal edge 20 of the outer wall 18 of the cylinder 12. The entry way 34 extends through the outside wall 40 and the entry way 34 includes a tunnel 46 extending outwardly from the outer wall 18. The tunnel 46 directs the rodent 36 into the entry way 34. The tunnel 46 has a floor 48, the floor 48 has a distal edge 50 with respect to the outer wall 18 of the dome 32 and the distal edge 50 is crenellated. Moreover, the entry way 34 is positioned on an opposite side of the outer wall 18 of the cylinder 12 from the bait opening 24 when the dome 32 is positioned on the cylinder 12.
A ramp 52 is removably attachable to the entry way 34 to facilitate the rodent 36 to access the entry way 34. The ramp 52 has a first end 54 and a second end 56, and the ramp 52 comprises a first section 58 that slidably engages a second section 60 such that the ramp 52 has an adjustable length. The first end 54 is associated with the first section 58 and the second end 56 is associated with the second section 60. The first end 54 is crenellated thereby facilitating the crenellation on the first end 54 to engage the crenellation on the distal edge 50 of the floor of the tunnel 46 having the ramp 52 sloping downwardly therefrom. The ramp 52 may include a collar 62 through which each of the first section 58 and the second section 60 slidably extend.
A cup 64 is removably positionable in the cylinder 12 to capture the rodent 36 when the rodent 36 enters through the entry way 34 and falls downwardly in the cylinder 12. The cup 64 has a lower wall 66 and an exterior wall 68, and the exterior wall 68 flares outwardly from the lower wall 66. The lower wall 66 rests on the bottom wall 16 of the cylinder 12 when the cup 64 is positioned in the cylinder 12. A handle 70 is coupled to the cup 64 to facilitate the rodent 36 to be relocated without requiring the user to touch the rodent 36. The handle 70 has a first end 72 and a second end 74, and each of the first end 72 and the second end 74 of the handle 70 is attached to the exterior wall 68 of the cup 64.
A door 76 is hingedly coupled to the cylinder 12 and the door 76 is positionable in an open position or a closed position for opening and closing the access opening 14 in the cylinder 12. The door 76 has a first edge 78 and a first surface 80, and the first edge 78 is hingedly coupled to a bounding edge 82 of the access opening 14. The first surface 80 is concavely arcuate such that the door 76 conforms to curvature of the outer wall 18 of the cylinder 12 when the door 76 is in the closed position.
In use, the rodent bait 28 is placed in the bait tray 26 and the ramp 52 is coupled to the entry way 34. In this way the rodent 36 can walk up the ramp 52 and enter the dome 32 through the entry way 34. The rodent 36 falls downwardly into the cup 64 when the rodent 36 enters the dome 32. Thus, the user can remove and relocate the rodent 36 without ever having to touch the rodent 36 or touch anything that the rodent 36 has touched. In this way the rodent 36 can be eliminated in a more sanitary fashion as compared to existing methods of trapping and disposing of rodents.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
