Single use hermetically sealing enclosure-type mousetrap with killing mechanism

摘要

A single use, hermetically sealing mousetrap has an enclosure accessible through a rotatably mounted door controlled by a spring-loaded door opening gear mechanism. Inside the enclosure is a spring-actuated setting axle/kill bar and setting bar combination that is movable between a kill position and a set position by manipulation of a setting handle positioned outside the enclosure. When in the set position, the door opening gear mechanism opens the door and tensions a torsional door spring. When the trap is tripped, the kill bar moves rapidly to the kill position which releases the door opening gear mechanism and allows the door spring to close the door and hermetically seal the trap with the dead mouse inside.

主权项

1. A single-use mousetrap comprising:
a housing defining an enclosure to which access is gained through an entrance; a door movable to open and close the entrance; and a trip mechanism inside the housing having a set position and a tripped position, said trip mechanism, when tripped by a mouse, moving from the set position to the tripped position and automatically closing said door over said entrance to hermetically seal said enclosure with the mouse and associated parasites and pathogens trapped inside, said trip mechanism including a kill bar and a setting member coupled to a setting axle in a fixed relationship to one another so that said kill bar and said setting member rotate with said setting axle, said setting axle being rotatable by a user to place the trip mechanism in the set position.