Rotating frame animal trap with improved trigger

Abstract From the Canadian patent

An animal trap having two similar frames each having jaw forming sides and ends extending between the sides to support the jaws. The ends have a central portion in which the frames are pivotally engaged through adjacent ends for rotation about a common axis between set and closed positions and outer portions on each side of the central portion extending to the jaws. At least one actuator capable of rapidly and forcefully effecting the rotation is present. The actuator has two arms spring biased at one end so that the other ends, which terminate in rings encircling adjacent ends of both frames on opposite sides of the axis would, if unobstructed, move apart to a distance substantially …