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Improvement in Animal-Traps

Description: Patent for "traps for catching large and small animals; and it consists in the combination of a number of inclined plates or boards, provided with spurs on their lower ends and hinged to fixed ridges on their upper ends, so arranged as to form ridges or elevations and depressions, and to entrap the animals by holding their legs between the spurred ends of said inclined plates" (lines 15-23).
Date: April 14, 1874
Creator: Flournoy, Rice Smith
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Improvement in Hawk-Traps

Description: Patent for an "improved trap for catching hawks, owls, and other birds of prey, which shall be so constructed as to adapt it to be attached to a pole or post set in the ground" (para. 4).
Date: June 27, 1876
Creator: White, Joseph
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