An industrial animal trap is provided to effectively, continually, and rapidly exterminate rodents, pigeons, and other animal pests in an efficient and safe manner. The animal trap has a feeding chamber, a killing chamber, and an optional discharge chamber, which are separated by moveable walls. In the preferred form, the chambers are in horizontal alignment and the animal trap has a horizontally moveable front wall which sequentially pushes the animal from the feeding chamber to the killing and discharge chambers.

A rodent killing device is provided with a plurality of units of feeding and killing chambers, with each feeding chamber positioned directly above a killing chamber, so that the floor of the feeding chamber also forms the ceiling of the killing chamber. The feeding chamber attracts a rodent by bait, which then becomes entrapped within the feeding chamber, whence it is transmitted to the killing chamber by sliding the floor of the feeding chamber outwardly. The killing chamber destroys the rodent by a plurality of spikes impaling the rodent, and then the killed rodent is deposited in a container for subsequent removal. The killing of the rodent is done in a separate chamber so that no leftovers from the rodent or any ill smell is allowed to permeate into the feeding chamber, so that subsequent rodents approaching the feeding chamber are not discouraged from entering into the interior. Conduits are also provided that attract a rodent by a scent pleasant to the rodent and lead it to the interior of the feeding chamber, which conduits are U-shaped channels having holes in the bottom surface that cooperate with holes in a pipe connected to the interior of the feeding chamber, so that the food bait's odor may be allowed to permeate along the entire length of the U-shaped channels.

A compact industrial animal trap is provided to effectively, continually and rapidly exterminate rodents and other animal pests in a reliable, efficient and safe manner. The animal trap has a disposal chamber and an elongated killing chamber with a kill pad or other killing means. In the preferred form, the disposal and killing chambers are separated by a vertically moveable scraper wall, the opposite ends of the killing chamber have entrance doors, and the killing chamber has a laterally moveable sidewall and floor to push the killed animal from the killing chamber into the disposal chamber.

A rodent trap includes a housing having bottom and top walls and defining an interior space. A ramp extends between top and bottom walls and defines an entry opening through which a rodent may enter the housing. A bait container mounted inside the housing lures a rodent to enter. A platform extends from the entry opening into the interior space and includes a selectively positionable metallic element. A trip board is pivotally mounted within the housing and is movable between set and tripped configurations. A magnet is selectively positioned on the trip board so as to bias the trip board toward the set configuration until a rodent's weight on another portion thereof causes it to rotate to the second configuration. A container is positioned in the housing for receiving a rodent that is deposited at the second configuration. A plurality of probes prevent a rodent from reversing course.

A rodent trap for drowning a plurality of rodents and other small pests without the need for resetting the trap is disclosed. The inventive device includes a ramp engageable to a rim of a conventional pail and a rotating body positionable horizontally within the pail. The pail is partially filled with water or a mixture of water and ethylene glycol in such manner that the rotating body is free to rotate a distance above the water or mixture line. The rotating body includes a cylindrical body rotatably mounted to a shaft in such manner that a rodent or like pest is unable to feed upon a rodent-attracting substance such as peanut butter spread on the cylindrical body without stepping upon the cylindrical body and thereby causing the cylindrical body to rotate and force the rodent or like pest into the water or mixture of water and ethylene glycol.