Patents by Inventor Andrew J. Pratscher

Andrew J. Pratscher has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4890410
    Abstract: A special fishing rig is provided with a unique swivel, split ring, latch, and leg assembly, which repeatedly catches more fish.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 2, 1990
    Assignee: Speedhook Specialists, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew J. Pratscher, Michael Grynecki
  • Patent number: 4741121
    Abstract: 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 chamber and an elongated entrance chamber. In the preferred form, the entrance chamber has a vertically pivotable floor to lift and carry the animal from the entrance chamber into the disposal chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 3, 1988
    Assignee: Andrew J. Pratscher
    Inventors: Andrew J. Pratscher, Philip J. Andres, IV
  • Patent number: 4653221
    Abstract: 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 pad or other killing means. In the preferred form, the disposal and killing chambers are separated by a vertically moveable scraper wall, the opposite ends of the killing chamber have entrance doors, and the killing chamber has a laterally moveable sidewall and floor to push the killed animal from the killing chamber into the disposal chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1987
    Inventor: Andrew J. Pratscher
  • Patent number: 4596087
    Abstract: 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 chamber, which are separated by moveable walls. In the preferred form, the chambers are in horizontal alignment and the animal trap has a horizontally moveable front wall which sequentially pushes the animal from the feeding chamber to the killing and discharge chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1984
    Date of Patent: June 24, 1986
    Inventor: Andrew J. Pratscher
  • Patent number: 4450648
    Abstract: 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. The feeding chamber attracts a rodent by bait, which then becomes entrapped within the feeding chamber, whence it is transmitted to the killing chamber by sliding the floor of the feeding chamber outwardly. The killing chamber destroys the rodent by a plurality of spikes impaling the rodent, and then the killed rodent is deposited in a container for subsequent removal. The killing of the rodent is done in a separate chamber so that no leftovers from the rodent or any ill smell is allowed to permeate into the feeding chamber, so that subsequent rodents approaching the feeding chamber are not discouraged from entering into the interior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 29, 1984
    Inventor: Andrew J. Pratscher