Abstract: An electric rodent trap includes bait attracting rodents to climb entry ramps reaching up to entries, and a high voltage grid in a housing bottom portion to euthanize the rodents. The entries may include interior ramps sloping down and into the trap and the ramps may include a low voltage grid to stun the rodents causing them to stumble into the trap while remaining alive. A manual switch is later activated to energize the high voltage grid in the housing bottom portion to euthanize the rodents, and the dead rodents are removed.

Abstract: Wall bases and methods for utilizing the same are provided. A rear surface of the wall base is configured to be secured to an adjacent forward surface of a wall. An extension member extends outward and downward from the base member, and a protrusion extends downward from the extension member. A channel for sealant is defined, at least in part, by the extension member and the protrusion. The protrusion may be separately formed from the extension member and base member.

Abstract: An electric rodent trap includes bait attracting rodents to climb entry ramps reaching up to entries, and a high voltage grid in a housing bottom portion to euthanize the rodents. The entries may include interior ramps sloping down and into the trap and the ramps may include a low voltage grid to stun the rodents causing them to stumble into the trap while remaining alive. A manual switch is later activated to energize the high voltage grid in the housing bottom portion to euthanize the rodents, and the dead rodents are removed.

Abstract: A rodent trap comprising: a cage having an entrance configured to allow a rodent to enter the cage; a control circuit board; discharge plates on an inner surface of the cage and spaced apart from each other, wherein the control circuit board is configured to establish a voltage between the discharge plates; a first infrared sensor comprising a first infrared emitter and a first infrared receiver, wherein the rodent prevents an infrared light beam emitted by the first infrared emitter from reaching the first infrared receiver when the rodent steps on adjacent pair of the discharge plates; and a second infrared sensor comprising a second infrared emitter and a second infrared receiver placed apart from the first infrared sensor. The invention also relates a method of using a rodent trap having a first discharge plate and a second discharge plate.

Abstract: A smart micro-mouse trap is disclosed herein which can be used to trap and kill the mouse, rat, rodent, etc. instantly. The embodiment comprises an enclosure for the mouse, a beam to detect the mouse, a trap, a latch and a solenoid powered by an electrical circuit to activate the tripping mechanism as the mouse enters the trap and breaks the beam. The smart micro-mouse trap is advantageous and useful as it is inexpensive, easy to operate, durable and allows for sanitary disposal of the dead mice, rats, rodents without contact to human.

Abstract: A rat catching box includes a box body, a lifting platform, and a control assembly. The box body is provided with a trap opening and a recovery opening. The lifting platform is disposed at the bottom of the box body, and a rat catching platform parallel to the lifting platform is disposed above the lifting platform. The control assembly is disposed on the box body, and includes a voltage measurement module, a controller, a high-voltage transformer, and a power grid. The voltage measurement module transmits a triggering signal of the power grid to the controller, and the controller controls the high-voltage transformer to supply power to the power grid. The power grid includes a positive power grid line and a negative power grid line. The negative power grid line in disconnection is divided into three segments connected respectively to a negative electrode of the high-voltage transformer.

Abstract: 1. A trap for rodents, including in particular rats, said trap comprising: a housing; and a trapping chamber in which a passage extends from the side(s) of the housing. The trap further comprises two electric poles, of which the one electric pole is disposed outside the trapping chamber and a reservoir. The trap is moreover configured with a transport mechanism for the transport of the trapping chamber with rodent between a lower position in which the rodent is able to run into the trapping chamber and an upper position in which the trapping chamber is able to discharge a destroyed rodent into the reservoir. The trapping chamber and the electric poles comprise means to the effect that the electric poles can be caused to be situated close to each other within the trapping chamber.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for electrocution and disposal of pests, the apparatus including a reusable power source and a low cost disposable container. The reusable power source includes batteries and a circuit to provide a high voltage and low current signal to the disposable container, to electrocute small pests without presenting a risk to humans or pets. The disposable container is constructed from low cost material, for example, cardboard or plastic, and in one embodiment may be nested for efficient retail packaging. The nesting may be accomplished using tapered disposable containers or a series of decreasing size containers. A container floor includes conducting surfaces formed or glued on the floor. Internal leads and connector surfaces are similarly formed on sides and a rear of the container. The connector surfaces are configured to connect to the power source.

Abstract: An electronic animal trap with a CPU-controlled, rearming, three-killing-plate configuration and extended killing cycle for trapping and exterminating larger rodents such as rats. The high-voltage output circuit is connected to a pair of killing plates which are activated with a high-voltage pulse train for a killing cycle when a pest of known impedance is sensed across the pair of plates. A third killing plate, electrically coupled to a first plate of the pair of plates, is brought to the voltage level of the first plate within approximately 1 msec of circuit activation for increased kill and escape-prevention capabilities.

Abstract: An electronic mouse trap is provided having multiple kill and automatic killing chamber clearing capabilities. The trap includes an elevated killing chamber rotatably mounted on a base that houses a collection bin positioned under the chamber and which has an entrance pathway that provides mice with access to the chamber. Upon completion of a killing cycle and the killing of a mouse, the chamber is automatically rotated by a gear motor about a longitudinal axis that is slightly below the floor of the chamber. The chamber rotates approximately 180 degrees so as to be inverted, allowing the dead mouse to fall downwardly into the collection bin. Once the chamber has been inverted and the mouse removed by gravity, the gear motor reverses the rotation direction and returns the chamber to its upright position where it is ready to reinitiate the killing cycle for another mouse.

Abstract: An electronic mouse trap is provided having multiple kill and automatic killing chamber clearing capabilities. The trap includes an elevated killing chamber rotatably mounted on a base that houses a collection bin positioned under the chamber and which has an entrance pathway that provides mice with access to the chamber. Upon completion of a killing cycle and the killing of a mouse, the chamber is automatically rotated by a gear motor to an inverted position, allowing the dead mouse to fall downwardly into the collection bin. During such rotation, the entrance pathway if blocked to prevent access to the trap by a next mouse. Once the chamber has been inverted and the mouse removed by gravity, the gear motor reverses the rotation direction and returns the chamber to its upright position, opening the entrance pathway such that the trap is ready to reinitiate the killing cycle for another mouse.

Abstract: A hermetically sealing, enclosure-type mousetrap is provided having a reusable housing and a disposable cartridge that contains an internal high voltage killing mechanism. Upon entry of a mouse into the cartridge through a rodent access opening, the opening is closed and the mouse is killed using the high voltage mechanism. Closure of the door hermetically seals the cartridge with the dead mouse inside, after which the cartridge can be disposed of without any contact between the user and the carcass along with any parasites and pathogens associated therewith.

Abstract: An electronic mouse trap is provided having multiple kill and automatic killing chamber clearing capabilities. The trap includes an elevated killing chamber rotatably mounted on a base that houses a collection bin positioned under the chamber and which has an entrance pathway that provides mice with access to the chamber. Upon completion of a killing cycle and the killing of a mouse, the chamber is automatically rotated by a gear motor about a longitudinal axis that is slightly below the floor of the chamber. The chamber rotates approximately 180 degrees so as to be inverted, allowing the dead mouse to fall downwardly into the collection bin. Once the chamber has been inverted and the mouse removed by gravity, the gear motor reverses the rotation direction and returns the chamber to its upright position where it is ready to reinitiate the killing cycle for another mouse.

Abstract: An electric or electronic animal trap with a CPU-controlled, rearming, multiple killing plate configuration and automatically resetting interruptible beam sensor for triggering a high voltage cycle. A high-voltage output circuit is connected to killing plates which are activated with a high-voltage pulse train when a pest interrupts the beam signal, such as an infrared beam signal generated by an infrared transmitter to an infrared receiver. The trap is preferably configured to automatically rearm if the IR beam signal is no longer interrupted after the killing cycle. If the IR beam signal is still blocked after the killing cycle, however, the trap enters a standby mode indicating trap servicing is required to remove the dead rodent from the trap.

Abstract: A vermin trap including a movable path between the trap entrance and the bait, and a sensor adjacent the movable path for detecting vermin presence on the path. When a vermin detection signal is sent to a controller, the controller causes a movable clamping member to trap the vermin for electrocution. Also provided are methods for the path to rotate and/or pivot, thereby dislodging the electrocuted vermin into a containment region. Methods for electrocuting vermin are also disclosed.

Abstract: An electric or electronic animal trap with a CPU-controlled, rearming, multiple killing plate configuration and automatically resetting interruptible beam sensor for triggering a high voltage cycle. A high-voltage output circuit is connected to killing plates which are activated with a high-voltage pulse train when a pest interrupts the beam signal, such as an infrared beam signal generated by an infrared transmitter to an infrared receiver. The trap is preferably configured to automatically rearm if the IR beam signal is no longer interrupted after the killing cycle. If the IR beam signal is still blocked after the killing cycle, however, the trap enters a standby mode indicating trap servicing is required to remove the dead rodent from the trap.

Abstract: An electronic mouse trap is provided having multiple kill and automatic killing chamber clearing capabilities. The trap includes an elevated killing chamber rotatably mounted on a base that houses a collection bin positioned under the chamber and which has an entrance pathway that provides mice with access to the chamber. Upon completion of a killing cycle and the killing of a mouse, the chamber is automatically rotated by a gear motor to an inverted position, allowing the dead mouse to fall downwardly into the collection bin. During such rotation, the entrance pathway if blocked to prevent access to the trap by a next mouse. Once the chamber has been inverted and the mouse removed by gravity, the gear motor reverses the rotation direction and returns the chamber to its upright position, opening the entrance pathway such that the trap is ready to reinitiate the killing cycle for another mouse.

Abstract: An electronic mouse trap is provided having multiple kill and automatic killing chamber clearing capabilities. The trap includes an elevated killing chamber rotatably mounted on a base that houses a collection bin positioned under the chamber and which has an entrance pathway that provides mice with access to the chamber. Upon completion of a killing cycle and the killing of a mouse, the chamber is automatically rotated by a gear motor about a longitudinal axis that is slightly below the floor of the chamber. The chamber rotates approximately 180 degrees so as to be inverted, allowing the dead mouse to fall downwardly into the collection bin. Once the chamber has been inverted and the mouse removed by gravity, the gear motor reverses the rotation direction and returns the chamber to its upright position where it is ready to reinitiate the killing cycle for another mouse.

Abstract: A vermin trap apparatus and method. The trap comprises a movable path between the entrance and the bait, and sensor means adjacent the movable path for detecting vermin presence on the path. When a vermin detection signal is sent to control means, the control means causes a movable clamping member to trap the vermin for electrocution. Also provided are methods of the path to rotate and/or pivot, thereby dislodging the electrocuted vermin and into a containment region. Methods for electrocuting vermin are also disclosed.

Abstract: The methods and devices can be applied in households, industry, healthcare, agriculture, forestry and other for immobilization and extermination of pests. They are complex, universal ecological and with improved effectiveness and productivity. The device on FIG. 1 consists of a conical inclined platform (1), which together with an upper conical cover (19), attached to platform (1) with pop-up connections (13) through transient circular platform (14), form an integrated corridor (15) along the conference of the device at the upper end of conical inclined platform (1) by the circular platform (14) is linked the wider end of a funnel (2), the lower (narrower) end is positioned centrally above a mobile container (6), where the enticement (7) is placed, where a zero electric truck (3) and phase electric truck (4) are attached one after another on the inside surface of the funnel (2).

Abstract: An electrically powered rodent trap which includes a surveillance system for remote surveillance of the trap so that the trap may be operated without being attended to. A rodent which enters into the trap is killed by means of electrocution electrodes. The dead rodent is automatically dispatched from the trap, e.g. by a trapdoor, into a container or reservoir beneath the trap. The number of electrocutions and possible other data is stored by an electronic system incorporated in the trap and a signal is sent out, either by request from an external unit, or automatically to an external unit. A city rodent exterminator is capable of monitoring the status of the trap from an office location and thereby effectively tend to the trap or to a series of traps.

Abstract: It is provided a rodent management apparatus for exterminating a plurality of rodents comprising extermination chamber provided with exterminating means, a preservation chamber adapted to receive exterminated rodent from the extermination chamber, and at least one of a plurality of open tubes connected to the extermination chamber and adapted to guide the rodents into the extermination chamber. Plurality of rodents is guided to enter into the tubes so as to reach the extermination chamber, where they are exterminated and removed to the preservation chamber while maintained in sanitary conditions.

Abstract: A sheet for exterminating rats by electric shock includes two plastic sheets in the form of upper and lower layered sheets. A grid-type copper foil pattern of straight lines with a fixed width, intersecting at right angles, is formed as first electrodes on the upper surface of the upper sheet, and windows are opened through rectangular areas surrounded by the copper foil pattern. A copper foil pattern is formed as second electrodes on the upper surface of the lower sheet, and has the same pattern as the copper foil pattern formed on the upper surface of the upper sheet. The upper sheet and the lower sheet are layered on each other so that the intersecting points in the copper foil pattern formed on the upper surface of the lower sheet are placed at the centers of the windows.

Abstract: A rodent catching trap includes a container in the general form of a rectangular bucket having opposed entrance portals and a transverse metal ramp extending between the lower extremities of the portals. A carrying handle is attached to the container. Inclined infeed ramps extend between the portals and the underlying support surface. An electrode is supported by the handle, and extends downwardly to a bait-holding extremity positioned closely above the metal ramp. Electrical contacts supplied with an electrical source of 5000 to 9000 volts are associated with the electrode and metal ramp. When a rodent enters upon the metal ramp and comes within about ¼ inch of the baited electrode, it is electrocuted and falls to the bottom of the bucket, which contains a pool of water.

Abstract: A compact insect trapping appliance uses an efficient ultraviolet light mounted from underneath a protective dome to both attract insects and to enable the user to position the appliance to selectively direct the ultraviolet light in a desired direction, away from a line of sight of people near the appliance. The inner walls of the upper, partially open chamber carries a low voltage grid array for deleteriously affecting and disabling insects which alight on the inner walls of the upper chamber. This low voltage grid array produces a low voltage current, and acts fairly slowly and silently to disorient and disable the insect as it makes contact. Once the insect gets becomes sufficiently disabled, it will likely fall directly into, or by its own movements, slide into an entry hole of an conical surface and through a narrow neck of a sound suppression chamber within the appliance.

Abstract: The tunnel trap is electrically powered and kills by electrocution. The animal trips two triggers (infrared beams for example), one near each end of the trap, so that the animal is entirely inside the trap when the trap is set off, electrocuting the animal by electric contacts with its head and feet. An elevator then lifts the animal so that it can roll and/or slide out of the trap through an opening in a side of the trap. The triggering allows doors, one at each end opening of the trap, to drop and cover the openings. There are grids on the doors, electrically connected when the doors are down. The animal contacts one door grid or the other as it attempts to escape and electrical current passes from its head to its feet which are on an electrical grid on the floor of the trap. As the elevator rises it lifts the doors to reset them for the next cycle.

Abstract: In one aspect, the sweepline system of the invention include a sweepline chain divided into a series of uniform subunits of common length attached along its U-shaped length to the hanging chains of the bottom trawl wherein such sweepline system is provided with its own separate auxiliary floatation system. In another aspect, a series of transverse drag chains are attached relative to the sweepline chain or the like, at a series of equally spaced junctions and downwardly sweep from such junctions in a downwardly depending direction, such junctions being located below the trawl net but above the bottom of the ocean, sea or the like wherein each drag chain comprises a series of chain links of overall length L defining a series of hinges therealong at the intersection of the individual links.

Abstract: A rodent trap operates by electrocuting the animal as it moves to steal the bait from a space above a depressible platform. The platform includes a downwardly swingable plate that is covered by a woven fabric panel. Edge areas of the fabric panel hang downwardly into a water bath located below the platform; water is drawn upwardly by wick action so that the platform fabric surface is wet. As the animal moves along the platform its feet and body become wet due to contact with the wet platform surface. The weight of the animal depresses the platform, which activates a hidden switch, thereby completing an electric circuit which electrocutes the animal while it is on the platform. The wetting of the platform surface facilitates the electrocution process.

Abstract: There is disclosed a footrope construction for use with a bottom trawl generally comprising a conical net having side wings to herd fish into the mouth of the net, flotation devices attached to the upper part of the mouth of the net to provide hydrodynamic lift, and wire ropes attached to the side wings of the net and adapted to be attached to a vessel to spread the net horizontally. The footrope construction comprises a series of rubber straps maintained substantially in the vertical at a specific vessel speed, thus allowing the strap to lightly contact the ocean bottom and create a mudcloud which will provide a visible deterrent for the regular fish entering the wings of the trawl to escape under the net while passing over the shellfish without causing damage and without capturing them in the net.

Abstract: A trap for trapping and disposing of rodents, the trap having a bait container and a bait tube for placing bait in a bait location. An electric eye then senses the presence of a rodent. The trap has a harpoon, activated by the electric eye, for killing the rodent. After the rodent is killed, a pair of flat plates flatten the body. An electric coil then incinerates the body, and the apparatus is automatically reset.

Abstract: An apparatus for automatically trapping and processing rats includes a tube for delivering under suction a trapped rat together with a ball-shaped carrier into a collection tube spaced from a rat entry opening in the tube. The trapped rat is killed by a carbon dioxide gas supplied in the collection tube, and placed in a bag-shaped film which is fused and cut off. Then, the dead rat contained in the bag is discharged.

Abstract: A power operated rodent exterminating apparatus includes a pneumatic actuator for moving a pivotally mounted striking bar from a retracted position to a striking position and automatically returning to a retracted position. A detector plate is mounted on the apparatus frame in the path of the movement of the striking bar to a striking position in contact with a portion of the frame. Ejector mechanism including pivotally mounted opposed gate members are operable upon retraction of the striking bar to sweep the detector plate to clear a rodent therefrom. A control circuit is operable to sequentially effect actuation of the striking bar and the ejector mechanism and to repeatedly cycle the ejector mechanism until the detector mechanism is reset.

Abstract: A rodent or vermin trap is provided which has a chamber, an entrance to the chamber and bait means located in the chamber. There is included at least two spaced electrodes between the entrance and the bait means which are adapted to be raised to an electrical potential to supply a shock to rodents or vermin entering the chamber.

Abstract: A trap including an elongated base for mounting along the bottom of a wall at the juncture between the wall and floor. A pair of spaced-apart electrical conductors are mounted on the base, and an electrical voltage difference is provided between the conductors. The conductors may be carried by an elongated carrier secured to the base. The carrier may be a stiff strip, or it may be a tape having a pressure sensitive adhesive on one face and two foil strips as the conductors on the other face. The carrier may be gripping means for holding conventional wires, or the conductors, such as foil strips, may be applied directly to the base. The base may be formed with a well for catching dead insects, and the conductors may be in opposed relation above the bottom of the well. An end cap may be provided to finish off one end of the baseboard trap and furnish electric power to the trap.

Abstract: An elongated base carries two uninsulated electric wires connected to a power source for providing a voltage difference between the wires. The base is placed in any area from which pests, such as rodents or birds, are to be removed. The base may be an electric cable which is to be protected from rodents. Where birds are involved, the base is an elongated perch of insulative material carrying two wires spaced apart by a distance small enough such that the foot of a bird alighting on the perch will touch both wires and be shocked. The perch may be a flexible cord strung between upstanding posts, or it may be a flat strip with both wires on one face of the strip. The perch may be arranged above a receptacle for catching a bird falling from the perch. A mirror may be arranged near the base, and means for reproducing or recording and reproducing bird sounds may be located near the base, for attracting a bird to the base. Electric power may be applied to the wires intermittently and at an adjustable voltage level.