To address such a problem that rats are often caught in
wire mesh cage traps, but effectiveness of the traps is halved because the
wire mesh is see-through, making it too bright inside, creating a dead end where the rat cannot escape when attacked, and an entrance is on one side, so rats coming from the opposite direction cannot get in, and to provide a rat trap with entrances on both sides using a
polyvinyl chloride pipe that is familiar to rats, because rats often enter and exit PVC pipes in drainage ditches.MEANS FOR SOLVING THE PROBLEM: Both ends of a horizontally placed
vinyl chloride pipe are
cut vertically to provide left / right rat entry holes, and trap sliding grooves are provided inside the
pipe at a place slightly separated therefrom by diagonally opening toward a ceiling. After that, left / right trap
doors that go up and down in the grooves are just made to complete the skeleton, and since an existing pipe is used, the process is short. The trap is easy to use, the left / right trap
doors are lifted in an inverse-V-shape up to the space above the pipe, both the
doors are stretched with a string to hold them stationarily, and a bait stick is hung on the string and suspended in the pipe. When a rat enters from either of the entry holds and bites the bait, a
razor blade attached to the stick cuts the string, causing both left and right doors to fall simultaneously,
trapping the rat inside the pipe.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1