This class includes inventions which deal with the trapping of wild animals, the catching of fish, especially food fish, and the destruction of all animal life obnoxious or pestiferous to man. It does not include catching and restraining devices for use with domestic animals or fowls nor the destruction of insects on such live stock. It does not include bee- moth catchers.
The class is divided into three groups, as its title indicates. The trapping group of inventions is further subdivided into:
(1) Traps for general use or for animals other than fish and insects.
(2) Traps peculiarly adapted for fish and not readily usable on land without modification.
(3) Traps designed especially for insects and not useful in capturing other forms of life.
(4) Traps designed to catch human beings, as thieves or burglars.
The vermin-destroying group of inventions is subdivided into:
(1) Inventions useful for the destruction of vermin of all kinds;
(2) Inventions adapted to kill obnoxious insects only and not useful for killing other forms of vermin. REFERENCES TO OTHER CLASSES
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119, Animal Husbandry,
801+, for animal catching devices and 156+ or anti-vermin devices for killing of insects on livestock.
239, Fluid Sprinkling, Spraying, and Diffusing, appropriate subclasses, for fluid distributors or discharge devices of general utility. For a statement of the line between Classes 43 and 239 in regard to liquid vs. powder or dust discharge devices see the class definition, Lines With Other Classes, Fog or Smoke, Colloids, Generators, Areosols, " of Class 239.