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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2017
Filed:
May. 22, 2015
The United States of America, As Represented BY the Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, DC (US);
Joe M. Pound, Ingram, TX (US);
Kimberly H. Lohmeyer, Kerrville, TX (US);
Gary R. Earl, Kerrville, TX (US);
Randy W. Ryan, Jr., Harper, TX (US);
Joseph E. Johnson, Jr., Perry, ME (US);
The United States of America, as represented by The Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
The automatically attaching collar clasps are installed in an animal bait station. The bait station has an inlet so that when an animal is positioned in the inlet, a male clasp on one side of the inlet automatically converges with a female clasp on the opposite side to the inlet to create a ratcheting connection and thereby secures a collar around the neck of the targeted animal.