Abstract: An ashtray having a hollow body with a top opening serving as a recipient for extinguished butts, matches and ashes. A unit pivots in this top opening. The unit includes two series of semi-tubular grooves in parallel spaced apart relationship, one series being underneath the other series. The said unit can pivot a half-turn in one direction and a half-turn in the other direction such that the cigarette butts placed in the semi-tubular grooves which are right side up are automatically discharged into the hollow body when the unit is pivoted a half-turn. The hollow body is additionally provided with lateral openings in the form of slits wide enough to admit matches and ashes but not wide enough to admit a cigarette so that the user is obliged to put his cigarettes or butts in the semi-tubular grooves.

Abstract: An animal trap which is made of a guillotine type to allow the construction of traps relatively larger than those with jaws and which kill the animal instantaneously. This animal trap of the guillotine type comprises a frame including a pair of spaced-apart posts forming a gate for an animal, a transverse guillotine member slidable along these posts, a triggering loop pivotally suspended in registry with the gate, latching fingers cooperatively and releasably holding the transverse guillotine member in elevated open position, springs biasing the transverse guillotine member toward a fallen closed position and a ratchet locking device releasably locking the transverse guillotine member in fallen closed position.