Electrocuting mouse trap with automatic chamber-clearing mechanism

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8418398
APP PUB NO 20120240450A1
SERIAL NO

13435941

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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.

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WOODSTREAM CORPORATIONLANCASTER PA 17602

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Bucher, Alan Weir Manheim, US 43 556
Cruz, Robert T Lititz, US 24 390
Eyer, Richard L Lititz, US 10 126
Lubic, Marko Konstantin Shillington, US 36 531
Wetzel, Troy A West Reading, US 6 99

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