Råttfälla

Avancerad och patenterad råttfälla som innehåller flera kamrar och sinnrika gångar som tvingar musen framåt för att slutligen ramla ner i en vattenbehållare där den drunknar.
Den beskrivs på följande vis: Automatiskt sjelfarbetande Mössfälla, patent av tyska Bender-Falle.
Text på fastsatt papper: "Patent??53299 R.G.M. ??54695.
Automatiskt sjelfarbetande Mössfälla.
Bruksanvisning.

Präglad text i plåten:
ORIGINAL BENDER FÄLLE
CAPITO
O. R. PATENT
Texten omgiven av två katter som torkar sina tårar.
Till fällan har hört en behållare för vatten.

Ur handskrivna katalogen 1957-1958:
Mössfälla
L. 26. Höjd 13,5 Föremålet helt. Trä o. plåt. Maskhål. Rostad.

Lappkatalog: 54

Musfällan presenteras på följande sätt i patentansökan publicerad 1911:
Uppgifterna hämtade ur the Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, Volume 166, 1911, s. 500:
Capito US Patent Information
How it Works:
In short, very well!
You begin by placing bait placed in a side compartment. There are variations of the compartment, but in short, there is an access door and a wire or mesh inner wall. The mouse smelling the bait enters the first chamber. The plate of the floor triggers the first door hatch to drop and sets the secondary floor hatch back to a closed position. The imprisoned mouse then climbs up through a wire corridor. On the way up, the mouse squeezes by a small gate that allows only one way passage. Once across the gate, the mouse finds itself trapped at the upper end of the narrow tunnel. The only way out is through a hole leading to a platform above the water tank. After squeezing through this hole the mouse falls through a trapdoor into the metal water tank where it drowns. The trapdoor and the hatch at the entrance are linked. As soon as the trapdoor is pushed down, the first door hatch is raised and the pressure plate falls back ready for the traps next victim. The ingenuity of the device is that it resets itself after every mouse completes the journey.

Reklamtext:
Gustave Glaser, having dissolved the firm of Glaser & Hofmann, formerly of Philadelphia, is now showing complete lines of imported specialties at 76 Park Place, New York. He is the sole representative for North America of Arndt Bros., the well-known German manufacturers, and many new and attractive articles are displayed in his wareroom.
One of the quickest of the seasons sellers is the Capito mouse and rap tap, which is illustrated. It is entirely different from all other traps, an is so effective that seventy mice have been caught in seven days by a single trap. The rodent entering the trap causes the door to close, and as there is no escape this way, it runs forward up the wire-covered passage to the balanced bridge. Once on the bridge the animal is, by its own weight, thrown into a tank of water. The movement of the bridge at the same time reopens the door and thus the trap is reset. There is no smell of dead mice left on the trap, but only the smell of living mice, which attracts others to their doom.

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