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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2011
Brendyn Murray Rodgers, Blackburn, AU;
Duncan Mcleod Watson, West Ryde, AU;
Jeffrey West, Williamstown, AU;
Brendyn Murray Rodgers, Blackburn, AU;
Duncan McLeod Watson, West Ryde, AU;
Jeffrey West, Williamstown, AU;
Reckitt Benckiser (Australia) PTY Limited, New South Wales, AU;
Abstract
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.