"What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stagecoaches?"
The Quarterly Review ; March edition, 1825
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7913447 | Smart and multiple mouse trap The Smart and Multiple Mouse Trap uses two ascendant walls that lead to the top of the mouse trap. On the top of the trap, there is a cylinder shaped wheel that will contain food. In order for the mouse to get the food, it must maneuver upward from one of the two as... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7363744 | Insert for multiple mouse trap A mouse or rodent trap including a housing having an elongated rotatable paddle member therein and an insert within the confines of the trap housing. A trigger assembly engages the paddle member and releases the paddle member for rotation when the trigger assembly i... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7150124 | Rabid animal control method A method is disclosed for luring attack-prone, rabies-infected mammals (e.g., carnivores, bats) into restraint and/or euthanasia but not luring normal, uninfected animals. ... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7010882 | CPU-controlled, rearming, high voltage output circuit for electronic animal trap An electronic animal trap with a CPU-controlled, rearming, high voltage output circuit for trapping and exterminating pests. The high-voltage output circuit is connected to a pair of killing plates which are activated with a high-voltage pulse train for a period of ... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6920715 | Rabid animal control method A method is disclosed for luring attack-prone, rabies-infected mammals (e.g., carnivores, bats) into restraint and/or euthanasia but not luring normal, uninfected animals. ... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6910298 | Insect trap A trap (10) for insects, vermin, and similar subjects is described. The trap includes a container (12) having a volume (26), an opening (28) into the volume, and a whisker assembly (14). The whisker assembly is located at the openi... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6865843 | Portable electrical mouse trap A portable electrical mouse trap that has a housing in the shape of a cat to which a handle is attached. An interior cavity of the mouse trap contains a primary motion sensor near its entrance, a retractable primary gate, a reservoir of a fragrance that smells like ... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6691452 | Light weight responsive tilt ramp rodent trap A rodent trap includes a box having one or more entrance tubes provided therein. The entrance tubes are in communication with a mouse hole in the side wall of the box. Within each tube is a tilt ramp that tilts in response to a weight of 4 grams at a dist... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6631582 | Low profile tilt-ramp trap A low profile tilt-ramp trap includes a tube providing entrance into the trap. Within the tube is a tilt ramp that has a flap on its exit end to prevent mice from moving beneath the tilt ramp. Once a mouse enters the tilt ramp, the ramp pivots to provide ... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6088948 | Method and a device for trapping rats, mice and the like A trap for catching animals like rats, mice and similar comprises an entrance compartment (3), a detection unit (7), an activator (8) a door (4) and a unit (2) with confinement chamber. The confinement chamber may be filled with carbon dioxide in order to... | 07/18/2000 |
| 5996274 | Rodent trap A rodent trap for drowning a plurality of rodents and other small pests without the need for resetting the trap is disclosed. The inventive device includes a ramp engageable to a rim of a conventional pail and a rotating body positionable horizontally wit... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5926997 | Stationary vacuum trap for vermin A cockroach trap includes floor molding that is hollowed out in back to provide a passage running the length of the molding. Slits along the bottom of the molding allow a cockroach to enter the passage where it steps onto a touch-sensitive switch. The swi... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5782034 | Rodent trap A pest-trapping device that enables quick and easy containment of one or more rodents such as mice or rats. The device includes a container that may be easily manufactured in a unitary piece. A dowel is fixed between opposing walls of the container. A rod... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5611171 | Multiple-catch mouse trap A lid (2), with a plurality of open entrance aperture tubes (8) combined with similar apertures possessing one way passage devices (16) and a bait compartment (18) to induce mice and the like to pass through the one way passage device; adapted for use wit... | 03/18/1997 |
| 5581934 | Rodent screen A wire mesh rodent screen is inserted in the end of a corrugated plastic drainage pipe to prevent rodent incursions into the pipe. The screen is formed from two rectangular pieces of wire mesh. One piece is folded to form a cylinder with an in-turned lip ... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5579601 | Animal trap A trap for animals having an apertured cover for positioning on a container containing a fluid. The cover includes a walkway on which an animal may walk. An attractive chemical scent is inaccessibly disposed beneath the walkway and adjacent an animal rece... | 12/03/1996 |
| 5528852 | Rotating cylinder rodent trap A trap for capturing rodents within a bucket. The inventive device includes an axle having a cylinder rotatably positioned thereon. A mounting assembly secures the axle across an open upper end of a container. A ramp extends from a ground surface to the u... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5517784 | Mousetrap container A mousetrap container having a container floor and container side walls, with a fluid positioned within the container cavity defined within the container, and a rotary cylinder mounted rotatably relative to an entrance opening of the container, such that ... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5406741 | Rodent trap using inclined screen A rodent trap characterized by a container with an inclined sidewall that has a screen covering same. Bait in the form of a band of peanut butter is placed on the inside of the container, approximately mid-height, and the bottom of the container is filled... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5094027 | Rodent trap A trap (10) for rodents and the like having a triangular chamber (12) with triangular inwardly projecting flaps (14) on each end which normally close the ends of the chamber (12) and converge and form a point inside the chamber. The flaps are resiliently ... | 03/10/1992 |
| 5090152 | Rodent barrier for pipes An arrangement in vertical sewage system pipes for preventing rodents, such as rats, from entering dwellings, living accommodation, office accommodation, and similar building structures. The arrangement includes a frame which is L-shaped in cross-section ... | 02/25/1992 |
| 5083704 | Trash disposal system An automatic trash disposal system (20) employing a trash discharge station (56) located internally of a building structure (22) and having a plurality of dedicated trash disposal ports (60P, 60M, 60G, 60NR) for receipt of different categories of recyclab... | 01/28/1992 |
| 4984382 | Trap actuated by an animal's weight An animal trap for catching animals in an unharmed manner, comprises a cage having a top, a bottom, a pair of side walls, a first end wall, and a second end wall. There is an opening in said cage, and a door means located in the first end wall. A platform... | 01/15/1991 |
| 4965959 | Pest trapping and extermination system A pest trapping and extermination system comprising an elongated enclosed conduit member having attachment members for securing same against a wall in an area where pests are to be trapped. A directing device is secured to the conduit member for directing... | 10/30/1990 |
| 4879836 | Rodent trap A rodent trap, particularly for mice, comprises a substantially closed container which includes a fixed stationary ramp surface extending from a position adjacent the lid of the container downwardly from one side of the container toward an opposed side at... | 11/14/1989 |
| 4835900 | Multi-purpose pest trap A multi-purpose pest trap characterized by a container including a rodent trap portion and a bug trap portion. The passage of the rodent into the rodent trap portion towards a bait supply interrupts a photoelectric beam and causes the entry to the rodent ... | 06/06/1989 |
| 4741121 | Gas chamber animal trap A compact industrial animal trap is provided with a gas injector to effectively, continually and rapidly exterminate rodents and other animal pests with carbon dioxide or other gases in a reliable, efficient and safe manner. The animal trap has a disposal... | 05/03/1988 |
| 4653221 | Animal trap A compact industrial animal trap is provided to effectively, continually and rapidly exterminate rodents and other animal pests in a reliable, efficient and safe manner. The animal trap has a disposal chamber and an elongated killing chamber with a kill p... | 03/31/1987 |
| 4596087 | Animal trap An industrial animal trap is provided to effectively, continually, and rapidly exterminate rodents, pigeons, and other animal pests in an efficient and safe manner. The animal trap has a feeding chamber, a killing chamber, and an optional discharge chambe... | 06/24/1986 |
| 4538375 | Animal trap for ground moles and the like An elongate hollow body of frusto conical tubular formation having a plurality of internal prongs resiliently projecting obliquely into the hollow of the body obliquely away from the larger body end, and a closure on the smaller body end, the body being c... | 09/03/1985 |
| 4450648 | Industrial rodent killing device A rodent killing device is provided with a plurality of units of feeding and killing chambers, with each feeding chamber positioned directly above a killing chamber, so that the floor of the feeding chamber also forms the ceiling of the killing chamber. T... | 05/29/1984 |
| 4255891 | Automatic animal-trapping device The present invention is to provide an automatic animal-trapping device, more particularly, to provide a kind of animal-trapping device, used for trapping mice and other like wild animals, which may repeat its operating cycle all over again and catch lots... | 03/17/1981 |