Abstract: An improved mousetrap is provided featuring a handle that is remote from the trapping mechanism so that the mousetrap may be set for use without endangering one's hands or fingers. The mousetrap includes a cover that serves a fourfold function of protecting humans from the trapping mechanism, shielding captured animals from sight, defining a single deadly pathway for an animal to advance upon bait on the mousetrap, and providing decorative indicia. The handle protrudes from the cover which encloses a spring-biased jaw frame, trigger, and catch member of the mousetrap. The jaw frame is pivotally mounted to a base such that the jaw frame pivots between a cocked position, whereat the catch member retains the jaw frame in an orientation perpendicular to the base, and a shut position. Movement of the trigger by an animal causes the catch member to release the jaw frame so that the mousetrap snaps shut.

Abstract: There is provided an improvement in the art of walking aid tip assemblies of the type that support an individual and provide assistance in ambulation or movement across ground surfaces of various conditions. This improvement includes the use of a spiked gripper member secured on the groundward end of the walking aid, a sleeve slidably and rotationally secured on the groundward end of the walking aid and selectively moveable relative thereto, and a flexible foot secured to the sleeve and engageable with the ground and having a series of annular grooves in the ground engaging surface thereof, the sleeve and foot being moveable axially relative to the gripper member to expose the gripper member to the ground in one position of operation, to separate the gripper member from the ground in another position of operation, and to expose both the gripper member and the foot to the ground in an intermediate position of operation.