Reckitt Benckiser (australia) Pty, Limited

Reckitt & Colman (overseas) Limited

Reckitt Benckiser N.v.

Duncan McLeod Watson

Brendyn Murray Rodgers

Jeffrey West

Vladan Jovic

The invention provides a trap for capturing and/or killing a mouse, the trap comprising:

Mousetrap

Disclosed is a mousetrap having an enclosure with a rotatable top part having a downwardly extending strike plate within the enclosure, and a bottom part having an upwardly extending catch plate within the enclosure, an aperture in each of the top part and the bottom part which are in substantial alignment when the mousetrap is set, and a trigger mechanism, wherein the mousetrap is set to incapacitate or kill the mouse by the manual rotation of the top part relative to the bottom part when a mouse activates the trigger mechanism causing the top part to rotate relative to the bottom part and thereby incapacitating or killing the mouse between the strike plate and the catch plate.

Rodent bait station

With reference to a preferred embodiment as depicted in, the present invention provides a mousetrap comprising a first part () and a second part () that together define an enclosure wherein the first part () and the second part () are operably connected to a first biasing means (). Within the enclosure is retained a lever () having a first end (), a bridge (), a pivot means (), a releasable catch means () and a second biasing means (). The second biasing means () biases the lever () into a resting position. By virtue of the second biasing means (), the mousetrap is able to be set when held in any orientation, and is also stabilised (i.e, accidental activation of the mousetrap is avoided, or at least minimised, when the mousetrap is turned in any orientation, for example, on its side or upside down).

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West Ryde, Australia

Duncan McLeod Watson