US327704A - Rat-trap - Google Patents

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Patented Oct. 6, 1885,

RAT TRAP.

H. MGGILLIS.

(No Model.)

NrTnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY MCGILLIS, OF DARLO'I, GEORGIA.

RAT-TRAP.

SPECIFICATION forming part. of Letters Patent No. 327,704, dated October 6, 1885. Application filed March 2, 1885. Serial No. 157,535. (No model.)

To aZZ whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY MCGILLIs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Darlot, in the county of Liberty and State of Georgia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Eat-Traps, of which the following is a specification,reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in rat-taps; and it has for its object to provide a trap which shall rather form a place of attraction and temporary abode for rats than a means of immediate destruction, and which can be removed from time to time after a number of rats have gathered therein,the trap being provided with a cut-off,whcreby they will be prevented from escape during the time of removing the trap and killing the rats.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and on which similar letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding features, Figure l represents a perspective view of my improved trap; Fig. 2, a longitudinal vertical sectional view through the passages leading to the compartments, and Fig. 3 a transverse sectional view of the trap.

The letter A designates the box or receptacle, constructed preferably of wood and de signed to be of varying sizes-say, from two to ivc feet. rllhis receptacle may be divided into two or more compartments by partitions, as at- B, comm u ni cation between the respective compartments being established by an opening or doorway in the partitions.

The interior of the receptacle may, if found desirable, be lined with sheet-iron or tin, or something of a nature through which rats eannot well gnaw. It is further provided with any suitable bedding or soft material which will afford an attractive resting-place for the rats and add inducement to their making the compartment a place of abode. Bait may from time to time, if found desirable, be placed in the receptacle.

The upper portion of the receptacle is provided with a removable glass and wooden cover, whereby on the removal of the wooden cover the rats may be seen through the glass, in order to ascertain how many are within the same. The glass, however, may or may not extend over the whole of the upper surface.

To one side of the receptacle is attached one, two, or more passage-ways, C, constructed preferably of boards, as represented in the drawings. Near the inner end of these passages apertures D are cut in the adjacent wall of the receptacle, so that the rats in passing from the passages may readily enter the receptacle proper.

In order to eut off communication between the passages and receptacle, I provide a slide, E, tted in the present instance between the receptacle and the passageways and across the doors D. This slide is normally held up by fitting sufficiently tight in its ways,but may be removed.

The trap is located in a place where the rats are most likely to be found-say in a dark corner of a stable-loft or other similar sel eluded spot. After it has been there long enough for the rats to become accustomed to it, and to have made it a place of abode, it will be found (as I have ascertained by experiment) that on approaching the trap they will retreat to it as a place of refuge. The slide E is then let down across the openings D and all eXit for the rats cut off. The trap is then removed and the rats destroyed, an opening of sufficient size for only one at a time to escape being provided, as at G.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In a rat-trap, the combination, with a receptacle divided into two or more compartments communicating with each other, and provided with bedding and an exitedoor, of one or more passages leading thereto and eommunicating therewith through openings in the wall of the receptacle, and a slide adapted to cut off said communication.

2. As a new article of manufacture, the herein-described rattrap, consisting, essentially, of the receptacle divided into two or more compartments communicating with each other, and provided with bedding, an exitdoor, and removable covers, and one or more passages leading to and communicating with the receptacle through openings in the wall of the receptacle, and a sliding door to cnt off said communication.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature n presence of two witnesses.

HENRY MCGILLIS. lVitnesses:

FRANCIS J. DELK, JAMEs D. ZoRN.

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